I immediately signed up for the unabridged account. For $29.95 you get a bunch of online dictionaries, thesaurusi, and the unabridged tool bar. Sounded way frickin’ sweet. A toolbar for looking up words. NICE!!!
Here’s the thing. “The results display in its own window”. Um. A html popup window. This sets off all the pop-up blockers and basically freaks out my browser. It’s like when the doors start slamming shut in a submarine thats starting to sink. NOT GOOD! NOT! GOOD! Blow the ballasts! Blow the ballasts! Surface! Surface! Surface!
Also, I was comparing the online thesaurus results to my actual thesaurus and the actual thesaurus gave me about 100x more words. WTH? Come on. Digital should be better, not worse, than analog.
And their software is just, well, amateur hour. Stevie the neighborhood high school and AV club president coded this up I think.
So I unsubscribed. Cancelled. Nulled out that pointer. Nuked it from orbit.
Too bad, I thought it could be really really cool. I sent them an email expressing my disappointment. Maybe they’ll take it to heart. If they rev the software and do it right, I’ll be first in line to plunk down my money. But for now, I’ll just keep using dictionary.com and google as my one off spell checker.
Hmm, how do I spell irradesant again? Search for it on google: “Do you mean: iridescent?” Why, yes, google, I do. Thank you. Yes, this is lame. But I’m on the move. Things to do. People to see. Governments to overthrow. Pictures of dogs to post. No time. For. Um, slow stuff.
