Friday, April 10, 2009

Dictionary.com

iPhone/iPod touch only: The Dictionary.com iPhone app does just what you might expect it to, but also offers spoken word pronunciations, words of the day, and similarly-spelled options when you're connected to the net.

http://lifehacker.com/5206654/dictionarycom-defines-and-pronounces-words-from-your-iphone


Cassandra Holdsclaw

3 comments:

  1. So will the younger generation have to see a real dictionary sitting in a glasscase at a museum to know how some of us used to look up the spelling of words? What will they come out with next? Although I have to admit that is pretty cool. And can it decipher thru different accents?

    mariko

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  2. I don;t know. How many engineers with slide rules do you see?

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  3. yeah I agree this idea is pretty cool, like everything else it just takes away doing things the old fashion way


    Shetika

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