Localization Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Apple opens Chinese support forums, asks devs to localize apps

by Michael Grothaus (Apr 12th, 2013)

In another move to capture consumers in the world's largest market, Apple has opened a Chinese language version of its Apple Support Community forums. First noticed by AppleInsider, the forum's Chinese speakers help each other in their own native language. AppleInsider notes that the forum ...

Devjuice: TraductoPro offers human-powered localization and translation

by Erica Sadun (Dec 24th, 2012)

TraductoPro offers an app-based translation bureau for developers struggling to internationalize their applications. With it, you can translate Xcode projects and app metadata as well as press releases and other documents. Importantly, your app does not already need to be set up to use ...

Mac app localization now easier with Tethras

by Michael Rose (Oct 21st, 2011)

For many independent or smaller-scale Mac developers, the promise and profits of international distribution for their apps is obscured behind a very practical challenge: internationalizing their projects, which can take months and plenty of money/resources as all the interface items are ...

NMA explains Locationgate in animated form

by David Winograd (Apr 27th, 2011)

Those wild and crazy guys from Taiwan's Next Media Animation have weighed in on the Locationgate blow-up, and as usual, they haven't let the facts get in their way. The video states that the location information is sent to Apple's servers for all sorts of nefarious purposes -- but of course, ...

Mobiola WebCamera gets localization, AppleScript support

by Steven Sande (Dec 3rd, 2010)

It's always nice when developers respond to the suggestions of reviewers. A few weeks ago, I wrote a review of Mobiola Web Cam from SHAPE Services. It's a combination of an iPhone app and a desktop (Windows and Mac) client that turns your iPhone into a webcam. At one point in my review, I suggested ...

Apple working on an "iSight HD"?

by Cory Bohon (Jun 16th, 2008)

According to a recent MacRumors posting, Apple might be working on a "next generation" high definition iSight camera. This comes after a reference in the localization strings file for QuickTime shows "iSight HD" as one of the import devices. You can see the localization strings for "iSight HD" by ...

Cyberduck hits 2.8 with file transfer queueing

by Mike Schramm (Sep 11th, 2007)

Henrik sends us word that Cyberduck, the other FTP app I use all the time, has been updated to version 2.8. New in this version, you can find the Ganymed SSH2 library, support for SCP transfers, file transfer queueing, the ability to limit bandwidth, and a number of other bugfixes and features. ...