1-Click Answers

[anotheoldgit]

My browser is Firefox 19.0.2 running on Windows XP.

I have downloaded 1-Click Answers, and although the pop-out side AnswerBar works, the most important feature does not.

That being the ability to point to any word, then holding down the Alt button on the keyboard while pressing the L/H mouse button, this should normally provide you with a pop-up window explaining everything about that word.

This feature works perfectly in Word, and even on Ms Internet Explorer, could it be it is not compatible with Firefox 19.0.02 because it once worked perfectly on an earlier version.

[Buenchico]

Looking at the developer's website shows the Firefox add-on shown as being compatible from Firefox 2.0 to 4.0, which suggests that (while the softeare might still be compatible with later versions of Firefox) there's been no attempt to keep it up to date.
http://www.answers.com/main/product_info.jsp

I prefer to use TheSage:
http://www.sequencepublishing.com/thesage.html

Chris

[anotheoldgit]

Thank you Chris, that sounds like a very useful application.

Can you point and click on the word or do you have to type in the word first as in a search engine?

[Buenchico]

You can choose the option to allow TheSage to run automatically at startup. If so, it's always immediately available for the type of searches you refer to

Then, to look up a word from a browser's display (or from any other program) you can place the cursor over a word and then press the key combination that calls up TheSage's definitions. (By default that key combination is Ctrl+Shift+A but you can change it in the options if you want to). I actually find that highlighting the word first (by double-clicking on it) is more reliable than simply placing the cursor over it.

(Theoretically you can also use a similar mouse-based technique to the one you've been used to but it doesn't seem to work for me)

Once you've done that you'll see all of the main definitions for the word listed in a tree structure. Click on 'T' alongside a definition provides you with synonym, antonyms, hyponyms and hypernyms for that definition. Clicking on 'E' alongside a definition provides you with examples of the word used in phrases and sentences.

There's far more to it than that but, as with many programs, you just need to select the tools that are useful to you.

Chris

[anotheoldgit]

Thank you for coming back on this matter Chris, and for spending your time explaining the technique in such detail, it sounds like a very impressive 'bit of kit'.