Software Reviews & Consulting

After writing software reviews for German and Swiss Computer magazines for years, I am know focussing on Dr. Tom's Independent Software Reviews on the web and regular submissions to MultiLingual Computing and Technology.

For many software products no printed or on-line resources exist for placing reviews. This is mainly because publishing reviews on highly specialized software programs does not sell too well. I therefore created Dr. Tom's Independent Software Reviews. It currently features an older comparative review on topographic mapping software, long versions of my reviews of translation and localization software and a few tool tips. Due to time constraints, I neglected this site for quite some time but I plan to update it soon providing reviews on products which should be of interest for professional users. I hope you enjoy my reviews and find them helpful to make decide whether or not a software might be useful for you and worth the money to spend.

A selection of my published software reviews:

• Wassmer, Thomas. 2002. Comparing Tools Used in Software Localization. A look at CATALYST, PASSOLO, RC-WinTrans, STAR Transit and TRADOS. In Multilingual Computing and Technology magazine. Number 50, Vol. 13, Issue 6. September 2002.
• Wassmer, Thomas. 2003. Review of 4 Localization tools. In Multilingual Computing and Technology magazine. Number 55, Vol. 14, Issue 3. Apr/May 2003.
• Wassmer, Thomas. 2003. Review of Systran 4.0 Machine Translation software. In Multilingual Computing and Technology magazine. Number 58, Vol. 14, Issue 6. September 2003.
• Wassmer, Thomas. 2003. Review of Visual Localize .net 4.1. In Multilingual Computing and Technology magazine. Number 59, Vol. 14, Issue 7. November 2003.
• Wassmer, Thomas. 2003. Tools for Localizing Multimedia Applications. In Multilingual Computing and Technology magazine. Number 60, Vol. 14, Issue 8. Dec 2003.
• Wassmer, Thomas. 2004. AuthorIT: Collaborative authoring solution adds localization management. In Multilingual Computing and Technology magazine. Number 61, Vol. 15, Issue 1. January/February 2004.
• Wassmer, Thomas. 2004. TRADOS 6.5: New version is more than a minor update. In Multilingual Computing and Technology magazine. Number 61, Vol. 15, Issue 1. January/February 2004.
• Wassmer, Thomas. 2004. Four Translation Project Management
  Tools. In Multilingual Computing and Technology magazine. Number 63, Vol. 15, Issue 3. January/February 2004.

My experience in software evaluation and ergometry as well as my constant enthusiastic screening of the market result in a well founded competence on tools and professional applications, especially in scientific software and the translation/localization field.
As time permits I am offering consulting services on projects that catch my interest.