The Internet has made it a lot easier for computer users to look up words, definitions, translations and encyclopedias. But even if you use the Internet for these things, you may run into usability issues or sites that display one kind of information but lack others that you are also interested in. WordWeb Pro is [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Etymology is the study of a word’s meaning in history. If you are not a scientist trying to find the origin of a word and the changes it went through throughout history, you are probably most interested in the original meaning of a word. This can be interesting from two perspectives. You first may want [...]

Categories: Online Services

I am a writer. I write loads of technical documentation as well as novels (check out my fiction on Smashwords and Autumnal Press). Because of my trade I am always seeking out tools to aid in my own process. And although the web has made everything so much easier, it is still good to have [...]

Categories: Linux, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic, Windows

I sometimes have to look up words in a dictionary if the meaning is not completely clear to me. For that purpose, I can use a dictionary that i have at home, or use one of the various online dictionaries. The same is true when I do not know a word in a foreign language [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Spell check is a “feature” we all take for granted. No matter where we are typing – in a document, on a blog, in an email…we all know our spell check will be there to take care of us. But what do we do about those files that are not created or edited in tools [...]

Categories: Advice, Linux, Open Source, Software, Tutorials Basic

It was yesterday that we reviewed the Firefox add-on Wikilook which proved to be a great way of looking up word definitions without leaving the active website. Dictionary.net is more or less the software counterpart of Wikilook. The software program uses the Google Dictionary service to look up word definitions. But that is just one [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

If you want to look up the definition of a word in a web browser you usually have to open a second browser window or tab and open a web dictionary to do so. The Firefox add-on WikiLook optimizes the process by displaying word definitions that are listed in the Wiktionary dictionary directly on the [...]

Categories: Browsing, Firefox

gHacks has a diverse range of editors, living in, amongst other places, the UK, Germany and Hungary. All write in the medium of English, but learning a foreign language is no easy task. I am currently trying to learn French and German and often find myself using many computer-based resources to ease my learning, some [...]

Categories: Knowledge, Misc, Software, The Web, Tools

The EuroOffice Dictionary is an Open Office extension that provides access to on the fly translations of words in Open Office. The user only needs to hover over a word or type it into the dictionary toolbar to view the translation of it. The free version of this extension comes with support for the languages [...]

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