Stories about: Merriam-Webster

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    "Unfriend": Oxford's Word of the Year 17/11/2009 12:37:00

    New Oxford American Dictionary has announced the verb "unfriend" as its word of the year, confirming the social networking term's ubiquity.
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    The 10 worst Microsoft product names of all time 31/03/2009 03:51:00

    If Microsoft had invented the iPod, it would have been called the Microsoft I-pod Pro 2005 Human Ear Professional Edition. The
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    IT's biggest project failures & what they teach us 10/10/2008 11:03:00

    Every year, the Improbable Research organization hands out Ig Nobel prizes to research projects that "first make people laugh, and then make them think."
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    'Fanboy' makes Merriam-Webster's list of new English words 09/07/2008 12:50:00

    Thanks to the new Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, the word fanboy is now officially a member of the English language.
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    Silly Internet Traditions: A Concise History 07/07/2008 09:11:57

    A concise history of silly Internet traditions
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    11 add-ons that get more from Internet Explorer 05/03/2008 18:14:11

    To get the most out of the Web, just a browser won't do – you'll need a good collection of add-ons too. We look at the most useful add-ons.
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    The best Internet Explorer add-ins 14/02/2008 08:13:04

    A browser by itself is a poor thing, letting you browse the Web, but little else. To get the most out of the Web, you need add-ins that give your browser plenty of extra features.
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    Slaves to the browser 25/01/2008 11:49:29

    The Merriam-Webster Online dictionary defines slavery as "submission to a dominating influence," while Wikipedia notes that "slaves -- are ... compelled to perform labour or services." I mention these definitions because I believe we have become enslaved by badly designed Web-based user interfaces.
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    Year End - AIR and RIAs raise Adobe's profile 21/12/2007 08:20:16

    In the technology industry, you can be pretty sure you've hit the big time when Microsoft develops a product specifically to compete with you.
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    You'll never again be at a loss for words 08/09/2006 08:27:11

    Franklin Electronic Publishers, long known for their electronic reference products, and Merriam-Webster, long known for their largely paper-based reference products, have teamed up to create the MWD-170, aka the Merriam-Webster USB Dictionary & Thesaurus Portable Storage Device. All of which to say that it's a dictionary and thesaurus on a USB thumb drive. The software allows you to enter words phonetically in order to find the correct spelling (the example they give is entering "nolige" to find "knowledge" -- but does it recognize both "potayto" and "potahto?"), a grammar reference guide, and other language aides. I mean, aids. The Franklin website doesn't give any clues as to the software's Mac compability.
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    Mindscape Australian Infopedia 3.0 08/06/2006 17:00:00

    Australian Infopedia 3.0 should in theory be a great product. It brings together a plethora of useful reference tools into one easy to use package. There's an encyclopedia, dictionary, thesaurus, atlas and even a medical guide. Better still, this is an "Australian" encyclopedia, so we were hoping to leave behind the irritating Americanisms that so often plague reference works such as Encarta.
 
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