to install several language pairs simultaneously.

unique features of SlovoEd Pocket PC dictionary

module allows you to translate words without switching

between applications – select any word in any application

    The setup was a breeze.

I received a few files from Paragon and after unzipping

the the installation program, double-clicked and installed

the single setup program. Other than the straightforward

setup routine, there was nothing to report here, the

program installed, asked me if I’d like to open the

HTML link to Paragon’s home page and exited just as

    There are six main buttons

along the bottom of the program and two navigational

Dictionary – Lets you close the application, read

the About screen, get Help, Register, set Options

SlovoEd to the context menus of other Pocket PC

can also switch between two active dictionaries, change

between them to see which are installed and in what

direction they’re translating and set what direction

you’d like them to translate in. You can also opt

to Activate/Deactivate dictionaries, and set in which

priority you’d like words translated. This is important

if you have more than one "professional"

dictionary installed for the same language and the

definitions displayed of the same word may be different

The second button is the "Edit" button,

which lets you select words, copy and paste them,

select all words displayed and, this to me was the

coolest part of the application, Add/Edit entries

in your own personal dictionaries. I always liked

the fact that most programs let you do this, but for

a foreign-language dictionary to let you do this,

is really great. After all, all of us have need for

specific words suited to our own professions that

may not be worth buying an entire "professional"

dictionary. This option lets you add and edit words

The third button lets you set the direction of the

dictionary. In other words you can choose Spanish

to English and by clicking this button change from

The fourth button is the search button (as shown in

the picture here). The search seems quite powerful.

You can search for entire words, exact matches, root

words, and wildcard searching is also allowed using

a "?". This is a very nice feature. If you

know most of how a foreign word is spelled, but not

completely, then you can use this search engine to

fifth button lets you go back, and boy does the program

have a good memory. You can go back as many terms

as you’ve browsed. Not only from your present session,

but from words you’ve looked up in prior sessions

as I found by repeatedly clicking the "Back"

sixth button is the full-screen button. Tapping this

lets you view the program without the keyboard or

note about the "navigational" buttons (the

double << and >> buttons). These buttons

would only be active if you have professional dictionaries

of the same language installed. This feature goes

along with the priorities of the definitions shown.

If you have a Russian Legal and Russian Medical dictionary

installed and want to see the Medical definitions

first, you change the priority of the dictionaries.

With the Next/Back dictionary buttons, you can see

the next definition of the same word based on the

    The help is good. Really

good. It’s well thought out, and reasonable to understand.

It could use an English editor who has English as

his first language to take a look at it because some

of the idioms used are a little strange "The

Options item allows tuning SlovoEd for more convenient

using." An English-as-a-first language edit might

be helpful to make the help read better, but otherwise,

if you read it a few times, things make sense. Me,

being an English major, just found this quirky in

    Paragon’s Spanish-English

Software supports a LOT of different software/hardware

CE, Symbian, Palm OS, Casio Pocket Viewer, Linux,

Processor: Like the list above, you can be pretty

sure that the software is written to support your

hardware.

RAM requirements: RAM: 1.2 MB for the dictionary files

and about another 1 Mb for the various and sundry

    Well, the review just

wouldn’t be a review if it didn’t have some

bugs and wishes. I sure wish the program would find

the words I was looking for in the context I was looking

for it. For example, the help, well, I already said

a good review by an English-as-a-first-language editor

wouldn’t hurt the help in any way. The terminology

used in the application took some getting used to

but once you get around how things are described in

the application, you’re on your way. The Interkey

keyboard being set as my default keyboard wouldn’t

have been my choice either. Leave my keyboard choices

alone, it’s my machine, sure I installed their software,

but don’t presume to set your application’s features

as default on a new machine. Other than that, the

software does exactly what it’s meant to do. You want

a word, look it up by itself, you want to look up

a word within another application, highlight the word

in your other application, click and hold it, and

choose "Translate…" from the popup menu

and voila, you have your definition. Install different

professional dictionaries of the same language and

you can see the multiple ways in which your chosen

    You can buy the program

directly from Paragon

Software. The current price for the dictionary

    I like this application.

Once I was able to figure out what all the buttons

did and how the application worked, it was easy to

use. It is strong in definitions. I wish I had had

a few of the “professional” dictionaries installed

as well as the demo Spanish-English to see how the

industry-specific terms worked, but if the program

displays definitions in terms of what is set up in

terms of priority, then I’m sure it’s very good as

well. I’d recommend this program to anyone who is

looking for a comprehensive dictionary program that

supports other language sets as well as ones that

use English letters. The addition of the Interkey

keyboard was a great idea. If I had a passable Russian,

I’d try and see what I could do in putting it through

its paces. But, as it is, the program performed quite

well in just Spanish. It was fast, displayed my chosen

definitions quickly and went away as soon as I tapped

the calling application window again. Nothing like

a program that does what you tell it what to do when

you want it to do something. You say go away, this

application goes away. The way it works so unobtrusively

within other applications is its most endearing feature.