January 31, 2008 at 20:44Free Dicto Dictionary
As a person who does not know English, I often need the help of dictionaries, so I always tried to have some kind of dictionary installed. Most recently, it was Lingvo , but there were reasons why I wanted to change it, namely: The
dictionary asked for money, of course it was possible to wean him from this, but I wanted something legal. Fairly slow cold start, and I did not like the memory consumption in standby mode. Therefore, although I was not active, I was looking for a replacement. Until I came across Dicto .
Description from the project website:
• Dicto has a unicode engine, which helps support a huge number of dictionaries in a variety of languages
• The ability to translate in a pop-up tooltip for hot keys
• customizable program interface (more than 40 skins, the ability to use transparency) *
• high speed loading dictionaries
• the ability to configure hot keys for translation
• the ability to multi- translate
• convenient and quick navigation in the dictionary
To translate a word, select it and press one of the following key combinations: “Ctrl + Ins + Ins” , “Ctrl + C + C” , “Ctrl x 2” . Depending on the settings, the translation will either appear in a small frame near the cursor, or the main dictionary window will be displayed.
Even a cold start occurs almost instantly.
When minimized, it eats less than a megabyte of memory.
If you select several words, a tab for each will open in the dictionary.
Now there are dictionaries for the English-Russian and German-Russian translation, an explanatory dictionary of Dahl and TSB . Dictionaries are downloaded separately, what you need, then download.
The project is still very young, the second version, version 2.0.0.8 , is now available for download , but, apparently, the people involved in Dicto are actively working on it, since the first version was only a couple of months ago, so we are waiting for updates.
The official website
I’ll add a little offtopic that, as an alternative, you can also try the QDictionary dictionaryor add two google bots to your jabber client - [email protected] and [email protected] , of course there are others, but read about it here . True, this is if you rarely need a dictionary ... :)
dictionary asked for money, of course it was possible to wean him from this, but I wanted something legal. Fairly slow cold start, and I did not like the memory consumption in standby mode. Therefore, although I was not active, I was looking for a replacement. Until I came across Dicto .
Description from the project website:
• Dicto has a unicode engine, which helps support a huge number of dictionaries in a variety of languages
• The ability to translate in a pop-up tooltip for hot keys
• customizable program interface (more than 40 skins, the ability to use transparency) *
• high speed loading dictionaries
• the ability to configure hot keys for translation
• the ability to multi- translate
• convenient and quick navigation in the dictionary
To translate a word, select it and press one of the following key combinations: “Ctrl + Ins + Ins” , “Ctrl + C + C” , “Ctrl x 2” . Depending on the settings, the translation will either appear in a small frame near the cursor, or the main dictionary window will be displayed.
Even a cold start occurs almost instantly.
When minimized, it eats less than a megabyte of memory.
If you select several words, a tab for each will open in the dictionary.
Now there are dictionaries for the English-Russian and German-Russian translation, an explanatory dictionary of Dahl and TSB . Dictionaries are downloaded separately, what you need, then download.
The project is still very young, the second version, version 2.0.0.8 , is now available for download , but, apparently, the people involved in Dicto are actively working on it, since the first version was only a couple of months ago, so we are waiting for updates.
The official website
I’ll add a little offtopic that, as an alternative, you can also try the QDictionary dictionaryor add two google bots to your jabber client - [email protected] and [email protected] , of course there are others, but read about it here . True, this is if you rarely need a dictionary ... :)
