If you a hear a word in regular conversation that you don’t know, it can be hard to look it up if you don’t know how to spell it. Instead, just throw it at Google Voice Search to get an accurate definition. More »
This was kind of inevitable. Google Dictionary, I mean. It’s a straight-up dictionary, yeah, but it has a few pretty Google-y features, like the ability to star words, if you’re real forgetful, and you can search for words in multiple languages. It’s also a fairly stripped interface, unlike a lot of dictionary sites, which is what I find most appealing. More »
We didn’t overhear this, but sometimes Apple Mac OS X built-in dictionary’s unmitigated pearls of wisdom are too good to ignore. Beavers, idiots, idiot beavers, idiots’ beavers: Beware.
Yes, it’s official: you now can be a fanboy by the power of Grayskull and the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, which says the word is now part of the English language. They arrive a little late, because the Oxford American Dictionary in Apple’s Mac OS X Leopard running on my Apple iMac 24″ shows it, and so does the dictionary on my Apple PowerBook 17″–running Apple’s Mac OS X Tiger–and also the automatic orthography corrector in my Apple iPhone. The Merriam-Webster added other geek terms which are not in the Oxford, though:
To hell with paper—save the trees! Sony has already got us thinking along the right path, and now Centon Electronics is releasing Webster’s New World College dictionary, with 160,000 entries, on a USB flash drive. The perk here is the dictionary will be available on either a 2GB or 4GB flash drive at $US42.99 and $US64.99, respectively. As only 140MB is used to store all those sexy words, the extra space is yours to use and abuse. The asking prices may be a tad steep, but that’s the price you pay to look cool and have a dictionary on your USB stick. Save the trees, man. [Product Page via Oh Gizmo via Uberreview] More »
