Jargonary Updated With Text To Speech Reading

August 25th, 2003 at 3:00 PM - News by Mike Washlesky

The Jargonary Development Team has released an update for Jargonary, bringing it to version 1.1. Jargonary is a resource for computer jargon explanations. The update adds sseveral new features including Text to Speech reading and XML preferences. According to The Jargonary Development Team:

Jargonary is a dictionary for computer Jargon. It lets you look up Jargon in the defi nition database stored in your computer. The database contains explanations for more than 13000 computer Jargons.

Version History for v1.1:

Added wildcard support. % returns any number of characters between a string

Added Text to Speech feature. Jargonary will read description

Added a feature where text in clipboard content will be use as search ter

Added Close Window menu

Added Real time Searching

Added Software update feature

New application icon

New and updated user manual

Can no longer close the main window

User can now change the font and the size

Jargonary now remember the window position and size for the last session

Preferences now is in XML format

All preferences in 1 file (com.jargonary.mac.xml)

You can find more information about the Jagonary update at the product home page. Jargonary is available shareware for US$20.00.