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Surprise!

Friendfeeders in the Chinese room have organized a gift relaying activity. It started at Shenzhen and now it has arrived from Shanghai. Each player will take a gift, put one into the box and send to the next person. I will be sending the box to Nanjing. Here is the picture. I am as happy [...]

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GT4T review by Riccardo

Written by Riccardo posted at http://thoughtsontranslation.com/2010/01/25/reader-survey-the-best-and-worst-things-about-your-cat-tools/
Pros: If you want to speed up your translation by taking advantage of Google Translate’s suggestions, this tool allows you to do it from within any program you are using to translate: just select the sentence to translate, hit Ctrl+J, and the selected source text is replaced by the Google [...]

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Use regular expressions in .htaccess for redirections

Task one:
Apache server provides a .htaccess file using which you can use to redirect URLs. For example, if you want to redirect all visitors to http://dallascao.com/cn/ to http://dallascao.com/en/, you can open the .htaccess file at the root, and then input:

RewriteRule ^cn\/?$ en\/

Translating the code in English, it means “Please replace ‘^cn\/?$’ with ‘en/’”. [...]

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Why GT4T is useful to you?

There are times when we are sure Google Translate can be as good as you.
Translating a loooong list of country names, for example, can be very tiring and time-consuming. With GT4T, you just need to hit the shortcut and the names will be translated and correctly typed for you automatically.
GT4T can be used as a [...]

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Homezz.com: celebrating one-year anniversary of service

This site is hosted on a server in Texas, the USA (not in Dallas though), yet I am using the host service from a Chinese guy known as Cosbeta. Cosbeta is a very busy man: a travel agency owner (or he works for it); the author of several popular Wordpress plugins (cos-HTML-cache, ajax-comment-vote); and the sole-founder [...]

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