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New articles from September 2010

• Successfully localizing mobile games
  Apple’s Apps – applications specifically designed for mobile phones – face some tough competition these days. Only the very best games and tools achieve high volume sales in many regions. With a quarter of a million competing products to choose from, localization quality has to be perfect to impress a savvy audience.
  
  
• Evaluating software documentation projects quickly
  Often when we start a new job, or are dropped into an existing software documentation project at our current job, getting up to speed is overwhelming. This article suggests steps to quickly assess the situation, develop a plan, and begin writing.
  
  
• Distributed working – practical and social aspects of virtual collaboration
  In any translation project, it is quite common today for project members to be distributed over different offices, cities or even time zones. In many cases, project members don’t even know their team mates, let alone, have experience in working with them. Under such conditions, how can project managers guarantee a smooth workflow and combine each member’s skills, experience and knowledge to bring out the best possible result?
  
  
• Linguistic standardization of requirement specifications and functional specifications
  Risk assessments, design plans and standardized protocols: These are the documents that first come to mind when thinking of internal documentation. Documents for internal company use, which must be provided mandatorily by law or due to internal process requirements, but which do not usually leave the company. Quite different on the other hand are requirement specifications and functional specifications: They are also typical documents of development processes for internal documentation, but are created to cross the company’s borders and coordinate the cooperation with external partners. And that puts these documents in the sphere of technical writing. 
   
• Microsoft Help Viewer V1.0 - a new Help format?
  Not much was heard about the development of a new Help compiler by Microsoft for a long time - except denials. But something seems to be happening since 2009. There is talk of a new Help format in the Help community: HTML Help V3. Since the beginning of this year, the new format is called Microsoft Help Viewer V1.0. It was officially introduced in April 2010, with the release of version 2010 of Visual Studio.
  
  
• Practical tips for PDF: Securing files
  The security of PDF files is a common concern. There are several criteria with regard to the security of PDF files: Security from viruses, security against spying, security against loss of PDF files, security against modification by third parties and security against removal of content. This practical tip deals with the simple password protection that is integrated into Acrobat.