Others say...

"Only for looking up known words"
If you only want to look up meanings of words with known spelling or which appear in text you are reading this is very good. However this is ALL I-Finger products do. It can be quite annoying in automatic look up mode since as you move your mouse the meaning of every word you move over instantly flashes up. When you move to a word to look up you may have to move your mouse over a dozen words and meanings will flash up one after the other. Unless you turn it off when you don't want to look up a word you will have words flashing up all the time unless you find a blank spot for the cursor and don't move your mouse. It can drive you nuts. It has no browse function so you can only look up words you know or see. Whilst it has a lot of words you can only look up words you know are in it. You must have it in book form to see all the words and their meanings. You can only ever see words that you click on or type in. When you open any book dictionary you can browse all the words looking at meanings. If you look up a word you often look up other words nearby in the book. It does not allow you to do any form of wildcard search and it does not look up words which are spelt differently to what you type in. You cannot get lists of words with (say) a common prefix or any other pattern.

"DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY"
I live in Mexico, and I do a lot of business through internet, so I have several dictionaries installed in my computer, but this one OXFORD DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH is by far the worst, the iFinger engine works only a few times, and very often the program suddenly "NOT RESPOND", I prefer to uninstall this Dictionary. Please read all the costumer reviews whether You decide to buy it or not.

"DO NOT BUY THIS CD-IT I S INFECTED WITH SPYWARE AND ADWARE"
I ordered this CD-ROM dictionary but alas it would not install. I tried to use it but it gave me a hard time trying to register it. Although it said registration was an option, it failed to skip that phase. When I ran my anti-spyware programs, they suggested that I had picked up a lot of Spyware and Adware. So Buyer, please beware of this CD ROM.

"Fantastic"
Works just as advertised online or off.It's one of the most ingenious and useful little products I've ever installed. I also installed the Selectsoft Oxford pop-up thesaurus: both programs automatically work together. Both programs work instantaneously when you need a word looked up.

If you like these kinds of useful conveniently productive programs you also will probably want to add another "little" program: ndx Cards (TruTamil LLC).

"Works Very Well With All Software"
I was very pleasantly surprised by how well this dictionary integrated with all the other software. It does this by appearing as a little search window in the title bar of any software.

Most times you can search for a word by simply highlighting it and then double-clicking. When this doesn't work, highlight the word and then press cntl-F11 (you can change the hot-key if you wish).

Plus, it does all this without consuming a large amount of memory.

I highly recommend this dictionary.