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Snowball “advanced topics” webinar to be held on ProZ.com

Erich — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 07:00:07 +0000

On Tuesday, June 16th, ProZ.com will be hosting another free ‘webinar’ presentation of Snowball at 16:00 GMT. In this live online event, after a brief introduction, we’re going to take a closer look at some of the useful features of Snowball, such as attributes and filtering and TMX import/export, as well as answering any questions that come up. If this is your first Snowball webinar, don’t forget to have a look at the recording from the last webinar or the tutorial videos, and come early so you don’t miss the introduction.

Click here for more information.
(Note: you have to be a (free) registered ProZ.com user to attend this event, but you do not have to have a paid membership)

Click here for further information on ProZ.com webinars.

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Recording of latest Snowball webinar available at ProZ.com

Erich — Fri, 22 May 2009 09:31:50 +0000

For anyone who missed the live presentation, the Snowball webinar aired on Tuesday May 19th can now also be viewed at ProZ.com by clicking here:

View webinar recording.

New Snowball Webinar coming up on ProZ.com

Erich — Fri, 15 May 2009 09:42:56 +0000

On Tuesday, May 19th, ProZ.com will be hosting a free ‘webinar’ presentation of Snowball at 16:00 GMT. This will be a live online event, building on the last webinar introduction and instructions for using Snowball. Don’t miss this chance to see a live demonstration and to get your questions answered about Snowball!

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(Note: you have to be a (free) registered ProZ.com user to attend this event, but you do not have to have a paid membership)

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Snowball Translation Memory Exhibited at ATA Translation Tools Seminar

Erich — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:46:14 +0000

The American Translators’ Association Translation Tools Seminar was held on Saturday, March 14th in San Francisco, and Total Recall was there to demonstrate Snowball, its amazingly simple and effective low-cost translation memory tool. Visitors had the chance to try Snowball and experience for themselves how simple it is to learn and benefit from Snowball in the very first session, even for the inexperienced. Those who wished to could also try their luck at winning either a free full license for Snowball or a 50% discount, so everyone who stopped by was a winner!

There were always plenty of visitors and smiles at the Snowball table

Other tools and services exhibited at this event were Across Systems, Inc., Payment Practices and Wordfast LLC.

Dierk Seeburg, the administrator of ATA’s Language Technology Division, also mentioned Snowball as an example of the future of translation memory in his presentation on Computer-Assisted Translation Tools. Thanks again to the ATA for hosting an enjoyable and well-attended event!

Snowball Translation Memory to be Demonstrated at ATA Translation Tools Seminar

Erich — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 08:13:44 +0000

Total Recall ApS will be showing off its revolutionary new translation memory tool, Snowball, at the American Translators’ Association Translation Tools Seminar to be held this Saturday, March 14th in San Francisco. Schedule of events: http://www.atanet.org/pd/tools/schedule.htm

Visit the Snowball exhibit and get a chance to win a free license for the full version of Snowball!

FREE UPGRADE to commercial release for beta purchasers!

Erich — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 11:52:55 +0000

Total Recall is offering a free upgrade to the next version of its Snowball translation memory program to any user who buys the full beta version for only EUR 45 before commercial release. Snowball will only be in beta for just a few more weeks, so click here to buy now and take advantage of this special offer!

If you’re tired of getting kicked around by big agencies forcing you to change how you work to deal with their cumbersome, intrusive tools, this is the perfect time to give Snowball a try. It’s quick, it’s easy to use, and your translation memory quietly “snowballs” in the background while you focus on your creative work.

Recording of 1-hour webinar introducing Snowball available for download

Erich — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:24:04 +0000

The one-hour webinar session hosted by ProZ.com on Feb. 16th, 2009 can now be viewed in on the Tutorial videos page. Click here to view the video directly, or right-click to download (50 MB!). This video covers the basics of working with Snowball in addition to discussing the philosophy behind Snowball, and also answers some questions from webinar attendees about specific aspects of this new translation memory tool.

Free Snowball ‘webinar’ on ProZ.com

Erich — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 08:08:37 +0000

This coming Monday, Feb. 16th, ProZ.com will be hosting a free ‘webinar’ presentation of Snowball at 14:00 GMT. This will be a live online event, with an introduction to Snowball and detailed instructions for setup and routine translation work using Snowball. Don’t miss this chance to see a live demonstration and to get your questions answered about Snowball!

Click here for more information.
(Note: you have to be a registered ProZ.com user to attend this event, but you do not have to have a paid membership)

Click here for further information on ProZ.com webinars.

Total Recall represented at youngStartup New York Venture Summit

Erich — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:04:18 +0000

The youngStartup 2008 New York Venture Summit was held on June 24th and 25th, and Total Recall was there to show off Snowball and to network with other entrepreneurs and investors. It was a very busy schedule, with a very well-attended welcome reception on the evening of the 24th at the Microsoft offices on 6th Avenue, and with a very heavily attended round of panels and presentations on the 25th.

Representing Total Recall and Snowball at the event were both myself, Erich Hegenberger, and Sean Marriott, programmer and development/marketing avisor who flew in from England especially for this conference. We came prepared to be remembered, and certainly managed to make an impression of some sort with our Snowball shirts and ties.

We made a lot of great contacts already at the reception, including a brief chat with Steve Barsh, who gave us excellent advice straight from his blog.

The main event was held at the New Yorker Hotel, next to Penn Station and just a short walk from Macy’s and the Empire State Building. What a view from the top floor, especially at night!

After an early morning welcome by organizer Joe Benjamin, founder and CEO of youngStartup, we got underway with a panel of VCs discussing and answering questions on how to go the VC route. The panelists were all enthusiastic about investment growth with many capital-efficient startups moving to the New York area, and had a lot of good advice for entrepreneurs seeking funding at any stage. Steven Davis of New York Business Practice, the Venture Law Group and Heller Ehrman, reminded investors that VCs may look at 100 business plans for every investment they make. Andrew Clapp of Brook Venture Partners gave the very sound advice of engaging the listener in a dialog instead of just rattling off a memorized pitch, and Bart Stuck of Signal Lake spoke to my heart of the importance of getting investors’ interest through customer validation – a large cashier’s check stapled to the business plan would be a good attention-getter!

Organizer Joe Benjamin, founder/CEO of youngStartup

The VC panelists had good news and bad news for hopeful entrepreneurs

The first panel session was followed by three intense rounds of presentations by 49 selected startups, who delivered highly-polished pitches timed to the second. This was punctuated by equally intense networking around the 50-odd display tables, with a quick break for lunch sometime in between. The Snowball display was a bit of a last-minute arrangement, since all of the display tables had already been accounted for. But with some last-minute efforts by organizer Joe Benjamin, we were graciously led to an unclaimed table. We made a number of contacts, some of which we might not have gotten without this prominent spot, so thanks Joe, for taking the time from an obviously demanding schedule to help us out!

Later in the afternoon, there were two more panel sessions on exit strategies and term sheet negotiations, with lots more good advice on building a company to be a profitable, independent entity and not just a designer sales item. There were a lot of interesting discussions around how to valuate a company and the changing role of the entrepreneur in different stages of growth, with some lively exchanges on the fairness of owner dilution.

All in all, it was an intense day with lots of new information, and as we were reminded by Daniel Schultz of DFJ Gotham Ventures, running a startup is not a dash, it’s a marathon! Unfortunately some participants dropped out of the race a bit too early, and were not on hand to accept the iPods they would have one in the end-of session raffle!

Thanks again to the organizers and sponsers for helping to make this a highly successful event for all!

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Tutorial Videos

Erich — Mon, 19 May 2008 16:56:12 +0000

The long-awaited tutorial videos are finally starting to arrive! Is the manual too confusing? Want to see in a hurry how to work with Snowball? Check out these short videos explaining step-by-step how to get started saving time with Snowball - don’t miss the clip showing Snowball working completely in the backgrond - so user-friendly it’s invisible!

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Snowball presented and demonstrated at University of Copenhagen Language Technology Forum

Erich — Fri, 16 May 2008 12:15:42 +0000

Yesterday, May 15, Erich Hegenberger of Total Recall ApS presented “Snowball - no longer lost in translation” to an audience of roughly 100 language professionals at the Language Technology Forum held by the Centre for Language Technology at the University of Copenhagen. The presentation focused on some key features of Snowball, such as the user-definable popup translation window with its list of translations scrolling to track the words the user selects in the source, computer translation suggestions, and Snowball’s amazing ability to work completely in the background, invisibly storing translation memory segments as the user works and popping up to help only when it recognizes something it’s seen before.

During the coffee and lunch breaks, the Snowball table was heavily visited, with lots of researchers and translators interested in seeing Snowball work. It was hard to get a break away from the table, and most of the time we could have used a few extra people on hand to help demonstrate the program and answer questions.

The complete presentation can be viewed here.

Other forum presenters:

Also of special interest in TM developments, Eric Rhode, Sales Manager for WebWordSystem, explained his company’s unique vision for a globally networked system of private and public translation memory databases. This system can give language professionals access to a vast resource of knowledge and information.

Lisbeth Kjeldgaard Almsten of Inter-Set Translations discussed translation memory and other translation tools from a user perspective. Almsten cautioned that, although translation tools can be highly effective, they have to be used with care to ensure a high-quality result. From the Danish offices of Lionbridge, Administrative Director Angelique Espensen discussed Lionbridge’s development of in-house language tools such as Logoport and Freeway 2.0, along with the corporation’s many other services.

Other presenters were Dr. Eckhard Bick of GramTrans (machine translation) researcher Juergen Wedekind from the Centre for Language Technology (bilingual terminology extraction), Anne Jensen of the Journal of Danish Parliamentary Proceedings Folketingstidende (speech to text) and Jens Otto Kjaerum and Stefan Pal of the Prolog Development Center (text to speech).

In his closing presentation summarizing the day’s experiences, Dr. Steven Krauwer of the Utrecht Institute of Linguistics at Utrecht University in Holland praised Snowball for ‘making the computer invisible’. He also spoke fondly of his own past R&D work in machine translation, especially EUROTRA as well as other ongoing EC projects, and presented his outlook for the future of language technology.

Acknowledgements
Many thanks to Lina Henriksen and Dorte Haltrup Hansen of the Centre for Language Technology for the kind invitation and for the last-minute help, and to all those who visited the Snowball table with their questions and feedback!

Final Snowball beta released!

Erich — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:16:03 +0000

We’re pleased to announce release of the final beta version of Snowball, the intuitive new interactive translation memory program. This latest version features more stable operation and a number of new features to save you even more time. Improvements since the last release include the following:

Background database analysis to find more terminology and phrases for future use.
An Undo key
User-definable attributes and filtering
Filtered export
Terminology export
TMX 1.4b import compatible
Database view and search
User-selectable fonts
User-placeable window
Speed/performance settings

Download your free trial and see for yourself how easy it is to work with Snowball!

Startups and Snowball - recorded sessions from O’Flaherty Live

Erich — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 15:44:57 +0000

Session 1: Starting up a company, what is Snowball?

Session 2: Startup mistakes to avoid - team building, seeking funding, publicity, sales.

Session 3: Startup strategy, planning and teamwork, online promotion.

New Snowball update available

Erich — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 08:10:26 +0000

The latest beta version of Snowball is ready for download.

Main changes:

Performance tab added to Options menu for better speed control.

Spacing issues resolved.

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