Say you are reading a blog or website inside Firefox and encounter some name (or an unknown term) that you would like to explore deeper.
You will probably visit Wikipedia to read more about that person and search Flickr or Google Images for some photos. And if the text on the webpage is not in your native language, you'll copy paste that into Babel or Google Translate.
Is that the way to work on the internet ? Well, that's a perfect approach but a bit inefficient. Enter HyperWords that lets you do all this and more without you having to visit any other site - the information will be fetched right in your current webpage with a simple click.
With HyperWords, you can select any plain text on the web page and do some amazing things - say you choose Flickr or Google Images from the context menu and it will show you the best matching picture in the menu itself. Same for Wikipedia entries.
The best part is about translation - you select a text and HyperWord will do inline translation meaning the actual text on the webpage will be replaced with the translate version. And it's fast.
If you have never heard of HyperWords for Firefox before, download it now and you'll love it. If you are an old HyperWords fan, get the new version 3.0 which is still in beta but adds some very useful features.
Sorry IE and Opera users, you'll miss this. Watch the HyperWords demo video below and visit HyperWords.net to install the extension.
Find this article at: http://labnol.blogspot.com/2007/09/want-to-do-more-with-firefox-get-new.html
web: http://www.labnol.org/ email: amit@labnol.org
Reader Comments
Wow, this is something I've been looking for for a long time. I've got Research Word, Dictionary search as well as a plug in for Wikipedia, but this is way better. A couple of weeks ago, I was searching for a plug in that would let me search for words on Google as well but couldn't come up with anything useful on the Firefox add-ons site. The customizable search options on HyperWords are great. I've just started using it, but I'm finding the Flickr, Facebook, Map and news searches useful already. The page info tools seem to be just the type I need. Many thanks for putting this up.
Written on 15/9/07 1:23 AM
Cool application, thanks Amit
Written on 15/9/07 8:54 PM
Great tool, Google Toolbar also does similar when we choose the word and click the toolbar, but this one is much better. But the translate button doesn't work.
Written on 16/9/07 2:56 AM
Cool - just installed it and it looks like it will come in v. handy
Thanks Amit
Written on 17/9/07 2:04 PM
Great and useful application. Thanks amit for the info
Written on 18/9/07 2:33 PM