WordWeb Dictionary

Couple of months back, one of my friends was carrying “Word Power Made Easy”, the book which is accompanying me for the past fifty odd months, unfinished yet. The book deals with the etymology, pronunciation, and the usage of words. Since that day i am craving a bit more to learn new words. And whenever I encounter a new word, I check it in WordWeb Dictionary. Though it doesn’t deal with etymology, it beguiles with pronunciation and usage. Its my privilege to introduce you the "WordWeb Dictionary" in this post.

Quick look at WordWeb:- 

The WordWeb contains, a text box where you can enter the word you are looking for, navigation buttons (highlighted in rounded rectangular) to check previous words, and a shortcut to web browser(second next button to navigation buttons). ). Two separate compartments, one to show which part of speech the given word belongs to, pronunciation of the word, meaning of the word, and the other to show "Nearest”, “Type of”, “Types of” “similar”, “synonyms”, “antonyms” and “see also” (few or all depending upon the availability) tabs.

The Tabs, Wikipedia and Wiktionary sails you through the contents of the current word's respective web pages. 

And the last tab “WordWeb Online” will take you to the web page http://www.wordwebonline.com/, i.e., online Wordweb dictionary. The below highlighted tab “Translations” is very interesting, because it translates any given word to Spanish, French, German, or Italian and vice-versa.

There are many buttons and tabs, privileged to be reconnoitered by you. 

How to get it??

Retrofitting WordWeb to your PC/lappy is as simple as it gets. Free WordWeb "exe" file is available here.

Key board Shortcut: Ctrl+Alt+w

Have fun time with the WordWeb dictionary.

Clipboard Hack Problem

I have been cerebrating from day one i started blogging, that i should post technical articles which will be useful for everyone. In January 2008, one of my friends forwarded me an e-mail, which contained the risk involved in using Ctrl+C (used for copying text).  And again couple of days ago, I received an e-mail from my office Infrastructure Services team, containing the same information. I felt the information is worth to share with everyone; the same ardor dragged me towards my office desk on a weekend. The content of the mail is condensed as below.

" Please be very careful when u press Ctrl+C ..

Here is some useful information for all.
Ctrl+C may be the most important work we do everyday. But it's not a very
safe thing to do. What happens when you press Ctrl+C
while you are On-line? We do copy various data by Ctrl + C for pasting
elsewhere.
This copied data is stored in clipboard and is accessible from the net by
a combination of JavaScript's and ASP.

Just try this:
1) Copy any text by Ctrl + C
2) Click the Link: < http://www.sourcecodesworld.com/special/clipboard.asp   >
3) You will see the text you copied was accessed by this web page.

Do not keep sensitive data (like passwords, credit card numbers, PIN etc.)
in the clipboard while surfing the web. It is extremely easy to extract
the text stored in the clipboard to steal your sensitive information.
 
Solution is here...

To avoid Clipboard Hack Problem, do the following:                                                          
1.        Go to internet options->security
2.        Press custom level
3.        In the security settings, select disable under Allow paste operations via script."

Now the contents of your clipboard are safe.. :) 

My Favorite Dialogues...

Most of my friends knew that i use some famous punch lines from films to make the conversations' luscious. In all,I like the dialogues of "Pirates Of The Caribbean" film series most. I will come up with one more post with all my favourite lines from the series. As of now, i tried hard to get the top 10 favourite dialogues i like in other films.

 

1)  “Why so serious?”   

                                                            - Joker, The Dark Knight

2)  "This is John Connor. If you are listening to this message, you are the Resistance."

                                      - John Connor, Terminator Salvation

 3) “If you're going to point a gun, you'd better be ready to pull the trigger.”

                        - Marcus Wright, Terminator Salvation 

4) “Did Caesar actually live here? “

                                    - Alan Garner, The Hangover

5)  "Koo-koo-ka-choo got screwed”

                                                            - Wolverine, X-Men Origins: Wolverine

6) "We are brothers JIMMY, brothers look after each other"

                                                            - Victor, X-Men Origins: Wolverine

7)  “There's nothing like a first kiss.”

                                                            - Lucy, 50 first dates

8) "I'm listening"

                                    - Frank Martin, Transporter

9) “Autobots, roll out!”

                                    - Optimus Prime, Transformers

10) "I will be back"

                                    - I know...you know this. :) 

May be...

I always enjoyed “MAY BE…” story.

I thought many times, to post this story but deep in my heart, I have a feeling that people "MAY BE..." thinking “Does this guy always tell stories?”

Lot of hullabaloo happened in my mind for a long time, and the result is... yet again one more story for you.

Many moons ago a thief lived in a kingdom. He was punished couple of times for pick-pocketing. He was produced in The King’s court again for the same crime. The king and the courtiers wanted to teach a lesson to all the thieves in the kingdom, so they verdicted death sentence to the thief.

The thief beseeched The King in many ways but, The King didn’t plead him.

Thief being wily tried one more trick.

“My lord, if you hang me to death, you will loose a great opportunity to ride a horse that can fly in the clouds”(praying to god in the heart to make everybody believe in his words).

The King and the courtiers were left in silence for few seconds and lost in their own imaginations about “the flying horse”.

“You can’t imagine what people think about you when you hold your inner ostrich egg right”
Darrel Bristow-Bovey said in “I Moved Your Cheese”.

“How?” The King asked by making a knot with his eye brows.

Being sensed that his plan started working, the thief told “My lord, provide me a black, healthy, Kladruber horse, and one month time with all the food I ask, I will feed the food to the horse and let it grow big wide wings on its back, so that it can fly. Then you can have the horse and hang me if you want”.

The King frenzied with his imagination about “the flying horse”, ordered courtiers to provide a separate cell and the horse that have all the attributes mentioned by the thief.

The thief in his special cell along with the Kladruber horse started enjoying a royal life from the next day.

The whole kingdom was waiting for the day to come. Especially the imaginations of the security guard of the thief’s cell was beyond the extremity of J.K.Rowling and George Lucas.

He was peeping into the cell every now and then, but there was no sign of a single feather germinated from horse’s back. He served variety food items ordered by the thief, with a curiosity of the end result. As the days were passed his curiosity got better of him. One day he asked the thief who was ready to take a nap, that “Three weeks over and you are hardly left over with less than ten days, I didn’t find anything special that make the horse fly?”

Thief cackled and told the security guard “it was a trick to defer my execution”.
Flabbergasted guard said “But on the thirty first day if horse doesn’t fly, you can’t elude the execution” with a perplexed sigh in his face.

“May be” (thief shrugged his shoulders)….. “May be!!!!?”(Security guard popped his eyes widely)

“May be...

May be, The King may change his mind and forgive me in these thirty days….
May be, my friends may plan, come and rescue me from jail…..
May be, I may get an opportunity to escape from the jail…..
May be, The King’s enemies may declare a war on our kingdom, and the King may forget about me, being busy in war...
May be...
May be...
May be... the horse may fly...” said the thief and went for his nap.


So friends "Hope is the only thing with FEATHERS, with which we can fly miles high", "never loose your hope in adverse conditions,and  just try to trick the world around" :) :) :) !!!!...