Tag: REFERENCE

Dictionary.com has offered two iOS apps available for quite a while, one being free and ad-supported, the other being $3.99 (but $2.99 for a limited time at the moment) and, as you may have guessed, ad-free. The latest update to the apps -- which brings the free version up to 3.0 and the paid app to version 2.0 -- adds voice-to-text support to both versions. This works pretty much as you'd ...

HTML5 is here, which means Web developers now have a whole bunch of new tags and elements to play with. The Periodic Table of the Elements is an effective visual map of what the "new HTML" looks like. It's a comprehensive table, too; it contains both existing elements (such as the hyperlink tag, a) and elements that were just introduced in HTML5. Elements are sorted by their function (root ...

CodeBurner is a neat tool for rapidly checking a ton of CSS and HTML reference information, including compatibility, functionality, and more. It's available as a Firefox add-on or a Firebug plug-in, and as an Adobe AIR application, OS X Dashboard Widget, or Opera add-on. I tested the Firebug variant, because I use Firebug for all of my Web debugging needs. And indeed, CodeBurner adds a nice, ...

Inline Search & Lookup is a neat quick-reference Chrome extension. You highlight a word and Alt-click it (or hit Alt-W), and a small popup window is instantly shown, containing the search results for the selected word in any of a number of resources that you've selected. The extension comes with support for a large number of search engines, dictionaries, and reference websites, but you can ...

Wikipedia is an amazing tool that delivers a massive chunk of the entire body of human knowledge to your web-enabled device ... for free! We all use it, we all love it, and some of us even contribute our own expertise. Wikipedia's more about the information than the interface, though, and it avoids showy designs in order to keep loading time minimal. However, if you like your Wikipedia a little ...

Wikipedia is one of the most-visited sites on the Internet, for very good reason. If you're like me, and Wikipedia is your starting point for research on any topic -- and your starting and stopping point for quick facts -- then you might be interested in a handful of ways to make your Wikipedia experience faster, more attractive or more integrated. Give Wikipedia a boost with these great apps ...

Wikipedia is a great source of information, and it's getting bigger every day. If you're like me, you'd be hard pressed to go a day without looking something up on Wikipedia. But sometimes you might not have Internet access -- devastating, I know! -- and you still need to know whether there's a grammatically correct sentence made up entirely of the word "buffalo." Well, it's a good thing there's ...

Sure, Wikipedia may be one of the best places on the internet to find information on just about anything in a hurry, but what about when you're stuck in an elevator during a blackout and you can't remember who wrote The Republic? Relax! Pocket Wikipedia provides quick access to important articles offline - and on just about any kind of device. The download includes about 24,000 images and over 14 ...

You may or may not be aware that Wikipedia contains the geographical coordinates for thousands of cities, landmarks, and other geographical features, and there's an ongoing WikiProject to add latitude and longitude data to every place in the online encyclopedia. This is pretty cool, as it allows you to check out a Wikipedia article and jump straight to a Google Maps satellite view or punch the ...

gotAPI is a cool Ajaxy web app that gives you quick access to reference materials for a variety of web technologies. On the top there's a list of languages including HTML, JavaScript, CSS, PHP, Java, Perl, and six others, and when you click on one of them the list of HTML tags, JavaScript objects, PHP functions, etc. pops up. There's a search box at the top for finding items quickly, and clicking ...

DevBoi is a simple and cool extension with a silly name by Martin Cohen. It's a sidebar for Firefox that gives you quick access to the documentation for HTML (plus entities), CSS, DOM, XUL, Ruby, and Ruby on Rails. All that's lacking is a modern XHTML 1.0 reference (and adding PHP, Java, Python, JavaScript, and so on wouldn't hurt), and perhaps an about:config-style filter box. Hopefully those ...