Reference Anywhere with AnswerTips/1-Click Answers

Answers.com is an amazing reference site that draws from many, many resources including Wikipedia and Google. If you're a Firefox user, chances are you've used it since it's one of the defualt engines in your search bar. For those that just can't get enough of Answers.com or just really like learning about everything (or you're just stupid), do I have the app for you!

It's called AnswerTips™ . This is a default feature of Answers.com that allows you to double-click any word on their site to get a small pop-up window with quick results for that word while not really interrupting your research. But, hey! What would it be like if I could use it all over my computer?

AnswerTips can be downloaded as a program called 1-Click Answers that allows you to use AnswerTips on any word you see on your computer. Any word. No matter if you need a quick spell-check, a thesaurus at hand, or just wanna make sure you're using a word correctly and need a fast definition. It also integrates with Internet Explorer via a toolbar (optional). If that's too much for you, there's even a Firefox Add-on available (but that, of course, only works on Firefox and no where else).

While this is great and all, it's got one major flaw: resources. Not the resources it draws from to get the info you need but computer resources. It was using up 13 Mb while running and slowed my startup time significantly, so I wouldn't suggest this unless your running a system with RAM to spare.

To get 1-Click Answers, visit Answers.com or go directly to it here.