Panopreter |
| Panopreter reads text files, web pages in .htm format and Word documents in many languages, such as English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Chinese, or Japanese. It also converts such files into wave and MP3 files, so that you can hear the reading of the files with a MP3 player. |
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Fora |
| Fora (Foreign Reader's Aid) Plain Reader, the linguist's dedicated browser and featured dictionary. |
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Saucy French Editor |
| Saucy French Editor is a simple way to type in French with easy access via buttons to the main accented and other special characters. |
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LingoPad |
6.4 MB |
98/NT/ME/2000/XP/2003/Vista |
| LingoPad is a free offline dictionary for Windows. It contains a German-English dictionary; other dictionaries (Spanish, Italian, French, Japanese, Chinese, Turkish, Kurdish, Norwegian, Arabic) can be downloaded as well. You can also import your own wordlists and use them parallel to the existing dictionaries. For each dictionary, a user dictionary can be defined to include additional wordlists. |
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WordWeb |
7.76 MB |
98/Me/2000/XP/Vista |
| WordWeb is a English dictionary and thesaurus that can look up words in any program with just one click. It works offline, but if you are online you can also immediately cross-reference to web references such as Wikipedia. The dictionary has over 150,000 root words and 118,000 synonym sets, includes many proper nouns and pronunciations. |
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APSC Spell Checker |
4595 kB |
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| With APSC Spell Checker 4.0 (last freeware version), spelling correction is made easy for just about any document that you display on your computer. With just a few mouse clicks, you can correct that spelling in your Web mail, simple text editor, or anywhere where a spell checker is needed that doesn't have one already! |
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TheSages English Dictionary and Thesaurus |
8061 kB |
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| TheSage English Dictionary and Thesaurus is a complete dictionary and a multifaceted thesaurus of the English language. It runs locally, and does
not use your Internet connection. The Dictionary comprises more than 145,000 references with multiple detailed definitions (over 200,000); A large collection
of examples of usage (approx. 35,000); Encyclopedic information (geographical, historical, political,...); Academic knowledge (medicine, biology,... ). The
Thesaurus encompasses synonyms, antonyms, hypernyms, hyponyms, meronyms, holonyms,...; Nearly 1,200,000 relationships between definitions. The essential
functionality includes the following: Tabbed interface allowing multiple definitions and searches to be readily available; Quick cross-referencing (any
and all displayed words are clickable, triggering a lookup); Standard and advanced wildcard search functionality; Anagram search; History and session
record keeping; Options that allow customization of the appearance of TheSage; Copy to clipboard of all or part of the information displayed. |
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AcronymGenie |
636 kB |
98/NT/ME/2000/XP/2003 |
AcronymGenie is a simple desktop program that lets you look up the expansion of a computer acronym, abbreviation or initialism using an offline
database. Simply type the first few letters of the acronym or abbreviation you are looking for and the list of acronyms will narrow down to a more specific list until you have a match.
The AcronymGenie database covers most of the computer-related fields including information technology, Internet, chat, programming, software engineering,
networking, hacking, graphics, multimedia, audio, video, telecommunications, electronics, embedded systems etc.
AcronymGenie lets you search the database with full reverse lookup facility that supports wildcards. This allows you to search by acronyms as well as by keywords
that appear in the expansions. The anagrammatic search capability proves handy when you don't remember the exact sequence of the letters in an acronym.
The Help file explains all the features of the program in detail. You will find here a concise description of how to use the database and its multiple search functions.
The included glossary explains terms like acronym, abbreviation, initialism, expansion and recursive acronym. A list of keyboard shortcuts is also provided.
AcronymGenie also has an integrated smiley dictionary, which can be easily accessed from the toolbar. This smiley dictionary consists of basic, common and less common smileys, all with explanations.
You can easily configure AcronymGenie to run automatically every time Windows starts. AcronymGenie is simple, completely free and a must for every desktop. |
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WordNet-Online dictionary |
468 kB |
95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP |
| WordNet-Online free dictionary and hierarchical thesaurus of English. Definitions, synonyms, antonyms,
hypernyms, hyponyms, meronyms, holonyms, derived forms and sample sentences. The handy dictionary software
minimizes to your system tray and waits until you click it. You may search any English word in the dictionary and get the
definition along with related words including synonyms, antonyms, particular and general concepts (e.g. Model T is a kind
of car, sex is a kind of activity), parts (e.g. CPU is a part of computer), and many others. Simple install and uninstall. No spyware or adware. |
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Polyglot 3000 |
1348 kB |
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| Polyglot 3000 is automatic language identifier that can detect the language used in a text, phrase, or even a single word. The program features over 400 languages. Input text files utilise both Unicode and ANSI encodings.
Polyglot 3000 features: Recognize more than 400 languages. Supports Unicode texts. Nice user interface. True-Coloured icons in menu and toolbar. Quick and correct language identification. Recognize language just among popular languages. Multilingual interface (English, Russian, Ukrainian). |
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Teach2000 |
3061 kB |
98/NT/ME/2K/XP |
| Teach2000 is a private teacher to help you memorize a foreign language, topography or even the history of Italy by dates. Improve your school results with this free language trainer. |
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Language Identifier |
2064 kB |
95/98/ME/NT4/2000/XP |
Lextek Language Identifier is capable of automatically identifying that language that a document is written in. Supporting over 260 different languages and encoding modules, the Lextek Language Identifier is capable of recognizing more languages and more character encodings than any other language identifier available by a large margin.
Use the language identifier to identify what languages e-mail or web pages are written in or to find out what language those "mysterious documents" that have been floating around your hard drive is written in. Or in a work related environment, you can use it to identify what language an e-mail or other document is written in so it may be forwarded to the correct person for translation.
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Spanish WordsGalore |
3667 kB |
95/98/NT/ME/2000/XP/2003 |
| Learn Spanish with sound and text flash cards and word lists. The program remembers which words you've marked as "known" so that you can concentrate on the words you don't know. It can generate MP3 files for your portable MP3 player. |
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