Lets say you got this nice little word document from a friend or colleague and stumble upon a word or words -like obiter dictum – that you do not know. How would you normally look it up ? You either pick up a dictionary or fire up your browser and search on the Internet for a definition of the word. This does not slow you down that much if it is only one word but what if there are more of them ? It could really slow you down unless you find a better way to lookup those words.
A far superior way would be in my opinion to use a software like Transfz which can be accessed through a simply keyboard hotkey from any application or document on your computer. The hotkey opens a menu with several standard sites that you can use to lookup the word. Sites include Google, Yahoo, Wikipedia and even Youtube.
It is furthermore possible to add custom sites to the menu which means that you can add your favorite web service to the list as well. Instead of pressing a hotkey to open the menu you can also assign hotkeys to search engines speeding up the process just a bit more that way.
Transfz extends the clipboard as well giving you access to the latest 5-30 phrases that have been copied to it. It has some text manipulation options as well such as converting upper and lower case chars, replacing phrases and lots more.
This is a great freeware for everyone who is working with texts.
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This looks great – just what i was looking for!I’ll check it out asap.
Now, Martin, is there any way to get Word 2003 to open documents in tabs? I can barely look at it and it’s the only thing left that really bothers me on my computer.
I’m using for that purpose {and some more} very rare clipboard extender Charu3. But it wasn’t updated since Jan 2005, so it’s nice to know that someone creates apps of such kind.
If this works as displayed, this could single handedly be the greatest free application of all time.