Hi Alex. Thanks for the tip. It's a great and very useful program, particularly as it's an available service. John Wilson On Jan 25, 2004, at 11:32 AM, Alex wrote: > > On Saturday, Jan 24, 2004, at 23:53 Canada/Eastern, Bruce Klutchko > wrote: > >> [...] I use the FREE Nisus Thesaurus, a great >> thesaurus program that is used as a service. I write simple things in >> TextEdit and complex documents in Word X. > > Nisus Thesaurus is based on WordNet. You may be interested in another > free app which can access WordNet and other dictionaries, > OmniDictionary > <http://www.omnigroup.com/applications/omnidictionary/>. If you have > broadband, it's probably best to use OmniDictionary as a straight > network dict client; if you don't, you can download the dictionaries > and a Java server and use OD locally.