Artha is a free cross-platform English thesaurus that works completely off-line and is based on WordNet. It is released under the GNU General Public Licence version

Source

Features

Although a gtk app  it has very little gnome dependencies (So KDE fans dont have to worry -much. Yeah yeah I know its would have been better if written in Qt but then “what can we do”  :(  ) However Artha has tons of features to make anyone (Gnome, Kde, whatever floats your boat) Drool.

• Offline : Unlike most dictionaries which can only be used if you are online. Artha works completely offline. So if you like me are not completely bought up by all this cloud computing craze and live in Africa where Internet sucks. Then Artha is a no brainer for you.  (Even if you are lucky and have highspeed internet Artha is also a no brainer )
• Regular Expressions Search : OK lets say there is a word you  vaguely know or you are unclear as to its meaning or spelling. (Happens to me a lot ) you can speed up/narrow the search using regular expression to locate the particular word they have in mind.
• Suggestions : Say you mispelled a word Artha can give you near matching suggestions (I also love this)
• Relative to Sense Mapping : Artha doesn’t just give you the meaning of words. It so includes words like Synonyms, antonyms. When you Select a relative its corresponding definition is scrolled and highlighted for easy comprehension.

The Awesomest  Feature that rules them all : Yeah I saved best for the last.  For me the feature of Artha which kills every other Dictionary software out there is its support for Notifications.  Here is how it works – Lets say I was going through my RSS reader and I found a word am not familiar with I just need to highlight the word, press the keyboard combination Ctrl+Alt+W (Which can be changed to any key combo that suits you) The meaning of the word gets displayed as a Notification Bubble .

Hence I can easily check the meaning of the word without having to launch the application window.

The notification feature of Artha is supported system wide and works with just about every application which support text highlighting.

Installation

Ubuntu / Debian : Although Artha is available in the Ubuntu / Debian Repository The version there is quite dated. However the latest version has been compiled to .deb and can be downloaded from   here

Fedora (Leonidas/11 or above) :  Artha can be installed with

yum install artha

Note* The version in the Fedora Reposittory is 0.9.1

Other Linuxes : If a binary package is not available for your distribution, you can easy download the source code from here and follow this installation instructions on how to compile from source.

Configuration: After installation, the rest is easy. When you start Artha Its minimizes in the Notification area of your desktop.  From the application window you can easily set you keyboard short cut by clicking on the settings. The default keyboard shortcut is Ctrl+Alt-W.  By default the Notification feature is disabled but can be easily enabled by right clicking on the notification area icon. The rest is easy.


I found Artha to be very useful and goes a long way to enhance my workflow and user experience.  I hope someone find this useful.

Downloads

John Grisham

Mobireader for PC

Mobireader for phone

*To read the ebooks on your PC you need to download and installed the PC version of Mobireader. when u do install it.then u can just click on the the ebook and read them.if u want the ebooks to appear on the Mobireader’s library then you need to move then to the ebooks folder under My Documents.

For SmartPhones and PDAs. -install the Mobireader appropriate for your phone then transfer the ebooks to your mobile Preferably to the Memory card.Put them into the folder named eBooks.if one is not created -Create it your self,then lunch the mobireader you will see all the ebooks in the Mobireaders Library.

HOW CAN I READ A MOBIPOCKET EBOOK ?

With the Mobipocket technology you can read books on your PC, PDA or on your smartphone: Simply install the Mobipocket Reader software, download ebooks and start reading.

Depending on the your phone type.after downloading and installing the Mobireader on your phone .You then send the ebook i.e -prc file- through bluetooth,usb cable or any means to your phone (preferably Memory card) and put it the the ebook directory/folder.If an ebook directory/folder is not created,create one using your phone file manager.Remember the directory/folder should be named “eBooks”.when this is done lunch the mobireader and go to library You will see the ebook there .enjoy.

Downloads

Harry Potter and the Deadly Hallows Prc *for mobireader

Download Mobireader for Your mobile

Mobireader for Windows

For Linux you have to install FBReader which is available in the ubuntu repository and and be installed from synaptic

FBReader is also available for the Nokia Internet Tablet and can me downloaded here