Software

Dictionaries
Translation tools
Links to software pages

• Ergane. Multilingual dictionary that translates words and short expressions. With synonyms. More than 40 languages, although some of them don't have complete vocabularies. For Windows 3.1 or higher.
• Wordmaster 1.0. Rhyming English dictionary with synonyms. There is a shareware version.
• Dicionários da Língua Portuguesa. In this page you can find out how to get them.
• Termium. Electronic English-French-English dictionary in CD-ROM with over three million terms, definitions, contexts, examples and other notes.
• Diccionari de la llengua catalana. In CD-ROM. With phonetics and English translation.
• Hiperdiccionari Catalan-Spanish-English In CD-ROM. With scientific and technical terms. You can find more information in the Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana page.
• Perseus 2.0. Everything related to classic Greece: history, maps, language, etc. Just for Mac, for the moment.

Translation tools

• Universal Currency Converter.
• Measure 4 Measure A collection of sites to convert any type of metric unit.
• WebBudget. A tool to help freelance translator to budget their Web projects. There is a freeware basic version.
• Dico. Allows you to look up several dictionaries with the same interface. For English, French and German.
• PowerTrans. Translation program for English, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese and Italian. It includes a freeware keyboard driver collection.
• WinDi. Help with translation. Languages: German, Spanish, French, English, Italian, Dutch and Portuguese. It includes inter-related dictionaries, grammar information, translation of sentences, conjugation of verbs, pronunciation, etc. For Windows 3.11, Windows 95 and NT 4.0. You access to a free demo, but then you have to pay.
• Grammar, synonym and dash files. In French, Catalan, German, English (American and British), Italian and Spanish. For Winword 6.0, 7.0 and Office '97.
• Conjugue. A Windows program that conjugates verbs in the following languages: Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, Romanian, Galician, Catalan, Occitan, Latin, English, Old English, Swedish and Finnish.
• Rianxo Project. Its goal is to carry out a Galician-Spanish-Galician translator for text files and HTML pages.
• Index Translationum. A database with over 900,000 books where you can see their titles translation into several languages and information about the author, the publisher, etc. Available on CD-ROM. Here you can see a sample with some of the most translated authors.

Links to software pages

• ComStar. Software products for a good number of languages and other products.
• Freeware Sources. A list of sites where you can find freeware.
• Shareware.com. How to find shareware on the Net. Searching engine.
• Trados. A company that develops software for professional translators.
• Translation, theory and technology. A university group that deals with translation problems and evaluates different human and automatic translation tools.