Collaboration: August 2009 Archives

Google has announced a new featured for it's web based office productivity software, Docs, allowing for integrated translation for 42 different languages in the document's toolbar.  At this time, the supported languages include: Albanian, Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Filipino, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese. Localizng a document to the user's preferred language should have no effect on formatting and layout.  This service is offered free of charge, and can now be found in the Tools menu within Google Docs.  http://docs.google.com/

Kentico Software released a new version 4.1 of Kentico CMS for ASP.NET. The new version comes with a enterprise-class search engine as well as user productivity enhancements. The search engine enables web content to be searchable to assist  visitors in finding information. The search engine provides search results with ranking, previews, thumbnail images and customizable filters. The site owners can dictate which parts of the site, which content types and which content fields are searchable. The search engine uses the Lucene search framework. The new version also enhances productivity by changing the way images are inserted into text. The uploaded images can be part of the page life cycle. When the page is removed from the site, the related images and attachments are also removed which helps organizations avoid invalid or expired content on their server. Other improvements were made to the management of multi-lingual web sites. Kentico CMS for ASP.NET now supports workflow configuration based on the content language and it allows administrators to grant editors with permissions to chosen language versions. Content editors can see which documents are not translated or their translation is not up-to-date. http://www.kentico.com/

Syncro Soft Ltd has announced the immediate availability of version 5.0 of its Subversion (SVN) client.  The new Diff Fields tool allows finding the differences between two files with other algorithms than the build-in one of the SVN server and applying some options like ignore whitespaces, merge adjacent differences, etc. The Diff Directories tool allows finding the differences between two sets of files that have the same names but are located in different folders. Two files with the same name can be compared with the binary content method or the last modification timestamp method. The menus and toolbars were also changed. Some actions where added or removed in the menu bar and in the Working Copy, Synchronize, Repository, History views so that the most used actions can be accessed faster. Another new feature are the Upgrade/Downgrade actions for changing the working copy format, allowing compatibility with applications that do not support the latest working copy format. Syncro SVN Client can be run on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris. http://www.sync.ro/

ITC Infotech, a global IT services company and a fully owned subsidiary of ITC Ltd., introduced Metatag+, their solution and platform independent framework for metadata collaboration across the enterprise. Metatag+ provides a suite of tools to create, organize, search metadata and associate them with related assets in an organization. ITC Infotech also complements this solution with a diagnostic consulting approach around Information Architecture Modeling to enhance findability of assets and related metadata. ITC Infotech has a dedicated Media and Entertainment practice, focusing on building specific solution accelerators and cost take-out propositions. The practice has developed solution accelerators spanning across areas such as metadata management, asset life cycle management, and intellectual property management, besides cost take- out propositions in digitization, cataloging, technology operations and testing services. http://www.itcinfotech.com/