Surely I’ve read somewhere before about this bookmarklet (probably on my Google Reader’s feed). However, I didn’t really pay attention in that term. But, recently I’ve found a nice web application which allows us to translate one english word to another easier english explanation about that words. The idea was almost the same with what we usually have, The Oxford Pocket Dictionary, which enables us to lookup some difficult english terms and get the easier explanation and examples about those words.

The website is here.

The developer provides us with a bookmarklet (you can see it from the upper right link of that website). How it basically works is you block a word in your browser, click the bookmarklet links in your bookmark toolbar, and voila, there comes a pop up browser where you can see the explanation of that word you select before.

In Firefox, when we want to lookup some kanji and japanese characters meaning in english, there is a good plugin called rikaichan, which works smarter (translating on the fly). I don’t know whether there is such plugin for english-to-english translation. However, this i-dict plugin (reminded me of some dictionary software created by my friend in ARC, Little Dict) is good because there are times when I read english website and I don’t know the meaning of the words. Opening between browsers and dictionary tools is not convenient.

Maybe, the idea can be extended for english-to-indonesia dictionary. I am just wondering whether there is such website or not.