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Lingro: Look up definitions, translations on any page
The definitions are culled from publicly available dictionaries and user contributions filed under a Creative Commons license. So if you find a word without a definition, a message will pop up asking if you'd like to contribute one. Of course, the odds of your clicking the word if you already knew the meaning are pretty slim (unless you're say, writing a review of Lingro).
You can also use Lingro the old fashioned way, by visiting the service's home page and typing in a word or entering a web address to translate. There's even a service that lets you upload a file from your desktop for translation into another language.
Honestly, we didn't have much luck translating entire web sites. But Lingro's dictionary definitions and single word translations seem pretty good.
[via ReadWriteWeb]
With Halloween fast approaching, it's a great time to get in some practice defending your territory against zombies. In Graveyard Shift, you take aim at zombies and other creepy-crawlies, blasting them into splatters of cartoony green guts. It's a casual first-person shooter, and it's very easy to get the hang of - use the mouse to aim, click to fire. Graveyard Shift has at least 15 levels, and it might even have some secret stages I haven't unlocked yet.
They key to getting good at Graveyard Shift is learning to use ...
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Christina Warren said 9:23PM on 6-10-2008
OR you could use Safari for Mac which has built-in system-wide dictionary support (thesaurus and Google lookup too). ;-)
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Minko Kissiov said 8:34AM on 6-11-2008
Or you can download the app from Answers.com and not only lookup words and terms in a web page but also on any text or document editor on your computer. Also it is Vista compatible. I thought it was pretty cool.