LiveWords Now Dead

March 5th, 2008 · No Comments

Pronounced At 4:48 AM. Cause Of Demise: System Failure

Plug Pulled On Plug-in

As outlined in LiveWords Plug-in For Ben, I installed the LiveWords plug-in in hopes of providing blog viewers a means of conveniently finding definitions or explanations of words and terms.

I ended the post documenting the installation of LiveWords with “This should be considered LiveWords’ audition for the cast of Heck of a Guy.”

Well, not every American Idol contestant is a winner.

I awoke this morning to find this comment from Ben,

the free dictionary is the only one on the list that worked for me and after a time or two it began giving me advertisements instead of definitions

Bummer, eh?

To be fair the the LiveWords folks, I should note that the English language options (e.g., Wikipedia, Wictionary, Free Dictionary, etc.),¹ on the LiveWords menu had worked and, as of this morning, had continued to work for me.

But, unless this sort of tool works for everyone, it’s counterproductive. Consequently, I’ve deactivated and uninstalled LiveWords.

None of the other WordPress-compatible reference software I’ve found seems to offer the same capacities² so while I continue to search for a blog-based solution, for now I can only recommend that Ben and others try WordWeb,³ which has reliably and effectively served as my most used dictionary for work done on a computer for years.

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