SlovoEd for all of its manifestations

The reason for writing this article was the suggestion of Paragon Software to test the new port of SlovoEd dictionary for iPhone. Less than a week, as I was in the hands of iPhone 8 Gb with already established vocabulary. Because passion about the iPhone on our forum simmer (although with different intensity of shares - a fading, passing on a stormy stage), then the mere appearance in the personal luggage of this phone will serve as a common cause of the reviews of software and operating system MacOS. I even try to describe their impressions of familiarity with this device in the series «iPhone for beginners, since there are a lot of very controversial chips. But it later, but for now let us return to the main topic.

All software companies can be easily divided into two large groups. By monovalent companies (I apologize for the chemical terminology - education does not spend on drink) I'll take those spud one operating system, releasing the products of one another better. Accordingly, multivalent companies specialize in a small number of products, but porting them to all available mobile systems. An example of this approach is the company Paragon Software. Already mentioned SlovoEd is available for the latest versions of Symbian, has a version for PDA, there version of the Java. But now there was also a version for MacOS. I understand that the version of SlovoEd does not yet exist for the Maemo platform and Android. And I am sure that the "androgynous» SlovoEd also did not take long - only a matter of time entering the market first live phone on the new platform. With Maemo a little harder - a device based on this platform in the market while a little, but I would poosteregsya promise chew his tie in directly as a bet on the fact that this version does not appear at all.

Since the iPhone came with an already established program, no additional action to install it did not have to perform. Although the installation of additional dictionaries has its own nuances, and we will return to them later.

On the desktop is the place to be the icon of the two inverted books, which corresponds to the desired application. The program interface is well designed and most convenient. The top line is the dynamic search box. When entering letters in the main screen appear relevant entries, it works quickly and without brakes. To 20 thousand words a sound base. For these words to the right is the speaker icon.When you click on a word found in a pop-up window, we get the translation.

At the bottom are buttons for call history, change of dictionaries and information about the program. Accordingly, the Oke stories displayed words to which you applied for transfer (running proprietary scrolling, an overflow of history I could not be obtained), the window shifts dictionaries you can select the dictionary or translation direction, information window, respectively, to display information about the current version.

Provided by the program was a Russian-English dictionary that works in both directions. In other versions of dictionaries may be more or themselves dictionaries can be used for other language pairs.

Program from Paragon Software have always been the possibility of installing additional modules, and to create their own custom dictionaries, there is even a separate program. But if you decide to use this method to install their own dictionaries on the iPhone, then you will have to wait for a disappointment. And not because it is impossible in principle - the program shell to do this in principle allows. Ability to add new vocabulary module has been removed at the request of the developers of Apple. Accordingly, the new dictionaries will be installed as a standalone application. I have personally tested this possibility by thesauruses Merriam-Webster. To install the dictionary was sent to the certificate itself a software module, which were installed via iTunes. You most likely do not have to, since dictionaries will soon be available through the service Apple Store, but the process of installing programs by detour, we'll talk about separately. What is important is the very essence - to integrate into an existing program shell new dictionaries can not, they must be installed as separate applications, as evidenced by the screenshots below.

Thus, to date the baggage of Paragon Software has dictionaries for Symbian, UIQ, Windows Mobile, Java and MacOS. Of course, that there is also a desktop version of SlovoEd, you can install on your PC or laptop. On many versions I've already written, therefore, we only refer to the relevant reviews.

Mentioned at the beginning of approaches to developing software products successfully coexist. A striking example of "odnoplatformennoy" the company is Spb Software House, producing great products for Windows Mobile, and, according to information from reliable sources that are not going to change priorities. An example of the second type is the Paragon Software. Both these companies operate successfully and thrive. What are we to you, as users only into the hands of (smiley).

Related links:

	Overview SlovoEd for Windows Mobile
	Comparative review of dictionaries for Symbian