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Again and again we see Paragon Software pushing new dictionaries through Apple’s AppStore. Their latest announcement involves release of Merriam-Webster’s dictionaries – one explanatory and two bilingual Spanish-English and French-English dictionaries.
America’s most comprehensive and authoritative dictionary, Merriam-Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged provides the most extensive coverage of American English. Its database contains more than 476,000 entries with more than 143,000 etymologies detailing word origins, 100,000 quotations and 1,100 synonyms paragraphs. Once installed, the dictionary can be accessed anywhere, any time, without Internet connection or additional charges.
Merriam-Webster’s French-English Dictionary provides the most extensive coverage of Canadian French with more than 80,000 entry words and phrases and 100,000 translations, as well as abundant examples of words used in context. Merriam-Webster’s Spanish-English Dictionary covers Latin American and European Spanish, and contains more than 80,000 entries and 100,000 translations.
As expected, Paragon’s proven SlovoEd engine is running the show in the background, consuming minimum of memory space while at the same time allowing users to quickly perform multiple lookups.
As for the pricing, Merriam-Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged, Spanish-English and French-English are available for $59.99, $24.99 and $24.99, respectively from the AppStore.
About The Author
Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
