Accio Dictionaries for Macintosh

Mac OS X 10.3+

I. How do you use it?

II. Minimum configuration info

III. How to you pay for it?

IV. Contact / technical support

Credits & Acknowledgments

License

I. How do you use it?

The Accio dictionaries are exceptionally easy to use. Download the program for Macintosh from www.acciodictionary.com. To install Accio, simply drag the Accio folder to your Applications folder.

Once installed, you can use your Accio dictionary by launching it directly, or by using the Accio hotkey: place the cursor over a word, and press the hotkey (which can be set by clicking the hotkey button of the interface, or in the application preferences.) Accio dictionaries include over 80,000 entries! Moreover, Accio will automatically recognize most conjugated forms, plurals, etc.

II. Minimum configuration

The Accio Macintosh dictionaries require Mac OS X 10.3 or better.

III. How do you pay for it?

Accio dictionaries cost $19.95 US each.

Purchase your license, by credit card or by check (US dollars or any European currency) on our site: http://www.acciodictionary.com/en/order.htm

For questions regarding orders, contact us at contact@acciodictionary.com, or visit http://www.acciodictionary.com/english/support/index.htm.

IV. Contact / Technical Support

Don't hesitate to contact us for more information. We can be reached at:

contact@acciodictionary.com

Our site is located at: http://www.acciodictionary.com

Credits & Acknowledgments

Programming:

Jeffrey Ondich, Joshua Pokotilow

Design:

Scott Carpenter

Lexical corpora (principal authors only):

French-English: Scott Carpenter, Carleton College; Spanish-English; Leland Guyer, Macalester College, and Gleb Beliakov; French-English Medical data: Masson, S.A.; German-English: Chris Carter-Smith, Friederike von Schwerin-High; French-Spanish; Daniel Zamorano; French-German: Chris Carter-Smith; Italian-English: Dario de Judicibus, Jonathan Hine; Italian-French: Michel Ditria, Marc Bonneval; Portuguese-English: Marcelo Todaro, Luciana Ginezi; Norwegian-English: Kunnskapsforlaget; German-Spanish: Jan-Mark Kunberger & Yvonne Ganswig; Esperanto-English: Gary Mickle, Universala Esperanto-Asocio; Latin-English: with thanks to Jason Davies; French monolingual: Jean-Pierre Brulé, Roland Laniel, Scott Carpenter; English Collegiate Dictionary: Scott Carpenter, WordNet 1.6 (heavily edited) WordNet 1.6 Copyright © 1997 by Princeton University (WordNet required notice: All rights reserved. This software and database is provided "as is" and Princeton University makes no representations or warrangties, express or implied. By way of example, but not limitation, Princeton University makes no representations or warranties of mechantability or fitness for any particular purpose or that the use of the licensed software, database or documentation will not infringe any third party patents, copyrights, trademarks or other rights.), pronunciation guide inspired in part by The Carnegie Mellon Pronouncing Dictionary, Copyright 1998 by Carnegie Mellon University.

Hotkey code for Macintosh includes software licensed from TrufSoft.com.

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