The website Safemanuals.com offers free downloads of thousands of manuals and users guides for domestic appliances, computer hardware, digital cameras, and more, including brands ranging from Acer to Zyxel. This is handy when you cannot find that paper copy of a manual you are sure you put somewhere, but it can also serve as a great resource for translators.

Take, for instance the multilingual manual for an Olivetti ECR 5300 cash register — nice for French, German, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, Danish or Swedish translators working on such a subject.

The files are in PDF format, and besides going through a pretty standard CAPTCHA routine, the download is easy. So far, the site has been translated into Spanish and French, with other languages coming "soon". The homepage claims that the site has over 800,000 documents, with more being uploaded.

The flyer and registration form for Ted Wozniak’s workshop "Business Basics for Freelancers," scheduled for June 14, are now available for downloading.

The May 2008 issue of The AATIA Letter is now online. This issue, the next-to-last, examines AATIA’s future without our venerable newsletter, a review of the last two month’s entries posted on its replacement, the weblog you are reading now, and an announcement of the May 10 member meeting.

The March issue of The AATIA Letter, now online as a pdf, features Frank Dietz’s article "Getting Your Files from There to Here"(posted here earlier) and Tony Beckwith’s mini-memoir "The Caledonian Ball," plus the news about AATIA’s HQ office in the heart of downtown Austin and the new blog (you’re reading it!).