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Quickly translate English to/from Japanese via Quicksilver Apps
If you're Quicksilver user, and would like an easy English to Japanese dictionary look-up, you can quickly access Jim Breen's On-Line dictionary by bookmarking these URLS in your browser: Make sure you've got Quicksilver's Web Search plug-in installed, though. Then, to use, do this:
  1. Activate Quicksilver
  2. Rescan your catalog (Command-R)
  3. Type in the name of your bookmark ( i called mine wejd and wjed)
  4. Tab for the Web Search Action
  5. Tab to type in search string.
Great for simple lookups -- results pop up in your web browser.

[robg adds: This trick will probably work with any of the launcher-type applications. In Butler (and probably others), for instance, you could assign these search engine shortcuts their own hotkey for really fast access.]
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Quickly translate English to/from Japanese via Quicksilver
Authored by: stevebr on Nov 21, '06 07:59:50AM

Nice hint: not just for this particular resource, but for adding search items to QS's catalog in general. A couple of things that should be pointed out...

1) The hint presumes that you have Quicksilver indexing your bookmarks. If you don't, you'll want to add your bookmarks to QS's catalog first. Alternately, there's another way if you don't want to index all your bookmarks: Create a custom Web Search List in your catalog and add those urls as items within it, giving them distinctive names as the hint author suggests. Then reindex.

2) Maybe this is obvious, but the triple-asterisk (***) at the end of the URLs is the string that Quicksilver uses as the substitution for the search term. Other launchers and search tools may do it differently (I've seen %s used by at least one). You'll want to replace the triple-asterisk with whatever the substitution string is in the tool you use.



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Quickly translate English to/from Japanese via Quicksilver
Authored by: boxcarl on Nov 21, '06 06:10:05PM

I find WWWJDIC to be fairly slow, even if I use a mirror. Instead, the free version of Tensai works well. If you see some Japanese text you don't understand, highlight it, then drag it onto the Dock icon. Tensai will do the look up from there. Very convenient.



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Quickly translate English to/from Japanese via Quicksilver
Authored by: boxcarl on Nov 21, '06 06:11:37PM
To clarify: Tensai is an OS X application. See http://www.tensaimac.com/.

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Quickly translate English to/from Japanese via Quicksilver
Authored by: Shumanfu on Nov 21, '06 07:04:48PM

Yeah..

I've tried Tensai, Jedict, Jisho, and some others. But none of them had a quicksilver plug in. When i chat with some Japanese friends on adium or something like that, i just pop up quicksilver and type something in and it tells me what i can use. It's quite convenient for english to japanese.

Since I'm in Australia it loads like a snap... The Jim Breen site also has some excellent links for each result it shows.. such as example sentences.
Also it's free! no licenses and restrictions.



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Quickly translate English to/from Japanese via Quicksilver
Authored by: Torrid on Nov 23, '06 03:13:08PM

Is there a way to do this for (Traditional) Chinese?



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