FAQs

Note: This page is a collection of solutions to problems I encountered and solved in my work as a translator.
I’m collecting them here in the hope that they may save someone a bit of time the next time they try to solve a similar problem.

Backup

• How can I create a local backup of ALL my photos and videos on Google Photos?

CAT tool terminology tips

• MemoQ’s version of Déjà Vu’s great ‘Lexicon’ feature

Data cleaning

• What to do when a TMX import fails?

File conversions and prepping

• Is there a quick and easy way to convert .mqxliff (memoQ) into .sdlxliff (SDL Trados Studio)?

Googling

• Ever want to compare two Google searches on the same page, side by side?

Hardware

• Windows Precision Touchpads (aka Why are Windows touchpads still so crap?)

Machine translation

• Way to force certain terms to be translated a certain way (using a project glossary)?
• Program to monitor changes being made by the translator to MT output and auto-change it?

MediWiki

• How to show more text in MediaWiki search results?

Regular expressions (regex)

• How to show all segments in memoQ containing only numbers with a regular expression?

Straight (') or curly (’) quotes

• How can I make memoQ automatically type curly (‘…’, “…”) apostrophes and quotes?
• Change all "straight quotes" to ‘curly’ with Find and replace (regex mode) in memoQ (in one replacement)
• For SEO purposes, is it better to use straight (') or curly (’) apostrophes and quotes?

SEO

• MediaWiki SEO: 5 tips to improve your wiki (richardcarterconsultancy.com/blog)
• 10 Best SEO Practices For MediaWiki Websites (cloudways.com/blog)

Segmentation rules in CAT tools

• How can I make memoQ break the text at every semi-colon, colon, etc?

Things I do each time I set up a new computer

• How to Disable the Insert Key on Windows 10?

You say tomato, I say tomahto

• ‘on a website’ vs ‘in a website’?

Computer Aided Translation Tool