- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/NT
- Date added: March 06, 2006
- Total Downloads: 21,347
- Downloads last week: 2
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 3 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
This browser-based dictionary tool quickly looks up words and phrases, but it may override your default browser.
Desktop Assistant's icon resides in your system tray, where a click or a hot-key combination will quickly launch a small, unobtrusive interface dominated by a field for entering your search phrase. To find a definition, you can enter your word in the search field, or highlight an unknown word from a site or file and hit the defined hot key. From there, this tool finds your entry on The Free Dictionary site (www.thefreedictionary.com) and satisfactorily presents its definitions and synonyms.
Unfortunately, it overrode our settings for our default browser and operated only with Internet Explorer, which may not satisfy some users. There are no features other than word lookups, but it's free and easy to configure and use. All told, Desktop Assistant is handy for folks who write frequently but who don't always trust their word choices.
Publisher's description
From Sphinx Software :Desktop Assistant offers instant alt-click access from almost any application to the free online reference resource with English, Medical, Legal, Financial, and Computer Dictionaries, multiple Encyclopedias, Indexes of Acronyms and Idioms, a Thesaurus, and a Literature Reference Library.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Desktop Assistant 1.0.2
"Useful, but not worth having 'always on'"
Pros: Decent speed and desktop integration
Cons: Only moderately useful. Not 'handy' to have to click a tray icon to bring up a text box to type in a term to search out... Can do this by typing the word in a search field off a website favorite link launched from the desktop just as easily.
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0 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Desktop Assistant 1.0.2
"Ò� �°t migth be big but it is good"
Pros: It's accesible; more easy.
Cons: It uses a big place on right. (u can use big resolution)
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Version: Desktop Assistant 1.0.2
Pros: Easy-to use, fast, excellent online dictionary
Cons: I wish I found it sooner. I used any dictionary website for a while, and this one is much better
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