dict.org Bookmarklets for Firefox
As well as liking monkeys I also like dict.org. I've been using it more-and-more since my rant last month about pop-up advertising and Dictionary.com.
For anyone unfamiliar with dict.org, it's basically a free service without any adverts that provides a fast dictionary and thesaurus lookup [it does more too!]
The bookmarklets
This morning I decided to play about with creating a Bookmarklet to help perform dict.org queries. I ended up creating three. One to perform a standard query, another to perform dictionary only queries, and the final one to perform thesaurus only queries. The bookmarklets are below:
dict.org lookup — for performing default queries [dictionary + thesaurus + more]
dictionary lookup — for erm… …dictionary only queries
thesaurus lookup — for… …work it out :)
All three bookmarklets work the same way. You can either highlight a word on the web page you are viewing before clicking the bookmarklet to perform the query; or click the bookmarklet and type a word at the prompt.
Howto install the bookmarkets
Simply left-click and drag any of the bookmarklets to your Bookmarks Toolbar within Firefox.
Before installing the bookmarklets it should be noted that I've only tested them with Firefox — as an Ubuntu user it's pretty much the only browser I use. Please let me know [post a comment or something] if you test them with any other browsers.
Credits
These bookmarklets are a direct hack of the free browser buttons available for Dictionary.com. These were inspired by the work of Steve Kangas at Bookmarklets.com.
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