Thursday, January 01, 2004

Assistance for the Tongue-Tied in New Reference Software. Most reference books list their entries in alphabetical order, but if you are not quite sure what you are looking for, you can wind up wandering aimlessly between A and Z. Word Menu, a combination dictionary, thesaurus and almanac from Write Brothers Referenceware, tries a more human approach to the task: words are organized not alphabetically, but into seven broad subject categories that then break down into about 1,000 subcategories. By J.d. Biersdorfer. [New York Times: Technology] 9:02:14 AM      Google It!.