Occasionally, if you get stuck on a difficult word, there’s always the big fat dictionary waiting to be dusted off. But what if you find that process a tad old-fashioned? Don’t worry, you’re not the only one. These days, more and more people are using online dictionaries instead of the traditional paper-made ones to find synonyms, definitions and antonyms. Also, for looking up words on the go, there are a myriad of apps available for smartphones and tablets. So, if you’re an Android user and are looking for some good dictionary apps to try out, read on as we cover the best ones for the platform. Advanced English & Thesaurus: Allowing you to lookup more than 1.4 million words, Advanced English & Thesaurus is a free Android application that finds words from the Wordnet database. What make this one stand apart from other dictionary applications is that it groups nouns, adjectives, Read More

Posted by Comments We’ve rounded up the best Android apps our expert reviewers thoroughly evaluated in the month of July 2011 that must be downloaded to your phone or tablet! There are nearly 40 apps listed along with convenient one-click tools below to easily download these top app picks: Check out more of the Amazon’s free apps of the day after the break. Updating... Pages: 1 2 You must be logged in to post a comment. Read More

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Remember when you first tried Swype? How about when you got a DVR and didn't have to worry about watching TV shows when they were actually on? SnaPanda is a little like that: it takes a task we're all familiar with, looking up a word in the dictionary, and gives you a new, better way of doing it. Here's how it works: when you come across a word you want to look up in a book or document, you fire up SnaPanda and point the phone's camera at the page. Tap the word on your screen, confirm your choice, and SnaPanda returns the definition. I have to admit: it's not only useful; there's a little surge of delight in seeing it work. Edulang, makers of SnaPanda, employs a couple of third party tools in making the magic happen: character recognition is accomplished via the open source Tesseract OCR, and the dictionary Read More