Useful
links relating to translation:
•
Legislative
decree on late payments
• Calculator
of interest on arrears
• Computer-assisted
translation - Wikipedia
• Wordfast
• Catscradle
and other software - Stormdance
• Webstripper
to download webpages
• Readplease
• Tariffometro
by Simon Turner
• Langit
Club
• Sendthisfile
- for sending larger files
• Europass
(Europass curriculum vitae e Europass Language Passport)
• Units
of Measurement Converter
• Word
character count
• ASTTI
Associazione Svizzera dei Traduttori, Terminologi e Interpreti
• Qabiria
• Currency
converter
Articles:
•
L'industria
della traduzione by Daniele Passanante
• La
nota del traduttore
•
The
difference between editing and proofreading (Proz)
• Translation
and its Discontents
• Dealing
with Quality Issues on the Translation Process (Proz)
• Let
the (translation) buyer beware
• A
propaganda war that can be lost in translation
• Radio: Una
specie di follia - Il mestiere del traduttore
Marketing
•
Guida
all'acquisto dei servizi di traduzione (AITI)
• I
ferri del mestiere (Roberta Anderson and Maurizio Valente)
• Guide
to a Signed Contract
• Market
Your Business
• and
more...
• Success
and career (in Switzerland)
Career
•
Linkedin
• Xing
• Mercurius
• Blue
Chip Expert
VoIP:
•Skype
• Voipstunt
- free calls to Italy
• Nonoh
- free calls to China
• Messagenet
(free Italian fax and telephone number)
Useful
links for your free time:
Reading:
•
Today's
Front Pages
• Il
Corriere online
• La
Provincia di Como
• Süddeutsche
Zeitung Magazin
• Italians
- Forum with Beppe Severgnini
• Beppe
Severgnini
• China
Daily
•
Focus.it
•
Blog di Beppe Grillo
•Tiziano
Terzani homepage and Il
Sultano e San Francesco (in reply to Oriana Fallaci)
•
University of Virginia Ebook
Library
• Turning
the pages - read rare editions online (Alice in Wonderland,
First Atlas of Europe and much more)
• Google
book search
Travelling:
•
Trenitalia
- Ferrovie dello Stato
• Flightstats
• Lastminute.com
• eDreams
• CTS
• Travel in China - eLong
• Travel in China - CTRIP
• China
Travel
• Chinese
International Travel Service - CITS
• Voli
low cost - in Chinese
• China
Train Schedule
Listening
and watching:
•
Yahoo
TV - Italian TV guide
• CCTV
live
• I like: PBS
Masterpiece
• Videos byBruno
Bozzetto
•
Radio online:
- Music: Pandora
- only in the US
- Various
radios
- Radio
of the 80s
- Radio
Cina Internazionale
- Radio from
Fordham University in NYC
- Radio
Canada International
•
Quotes
of the week (in Italian)
• Clichés,
Euphemisms & Figures of Speech
• Etiquette
in Italy
• Prejudices
about Italians
•
Ergonomic chairs:
- Netsurfer
- Swopper
- Stokke
If
any of the links above do not work or the page they refer
to has been moved, please drop me a line. 
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