Fora Reader v2 Welcome to Fora Reader, the linguist's dedicated browser & featured dictionary.
Fora Reader is a reading application with a basic browser dedicated to reading documents in a foreign language, with features like; rapid word translations within the browser, customized dictionary management and plain text annotation for viewing with any web browser.
Written in the Java programming language, Fora works on Windows XP/Vista, Mac OS X and Linux operating systems and currently available in English, Spanish, Italian, German, French, Russian, Arabic and Portuguese interfaces (note that the translations are in beta stage). Out of box, it has just one comprehensive English-to-English dictionary installed but it can be extended easily by downloading and installing dictionaries.
Fora uses various types of inline tooltips to display translations and by using well-tailored tooltips right around the word to be translated it never suspends reading/browsing activity. The application can be viewed as a tool that virtually converts every document (or website) to an interactive one that has a complete integrated glossary.
Whether you are a professional translator, a student doing homework or a web surfer looking for new horizons, the intuitive functionality will greatly help you communicate in languages which isn't your native and will enhance your productivity.
The name Fora is an acronym derived from "Foreign Reader's Aid". It has no connection with the English word "fora" which is plural form of "forum".
Rationale behind the application
When the number of words in a paragraph that which you don't know
meaning exceeds one in five, crawling regular
dictionaries becomes increasingly tiring, even infeasible, and a
need to better utilize the computer's graphical user
interfaces (e.g. tooltips) and interaction hardware (e.g. mouse) arises.
Fora uses various tooltip-like customized pop-ups to display
translations.
The tooltips are controlled completely with trivial mouse movements or
clicks.
While you can use auxiliary background mode to translate from every application, Fora's
principal usage is not designed for a "general-purpose" contextual
dictionary, but a reading tool that works exclusively with web based
documents. Since most documents can be converted to a web-based one
(e.g. html), workspace is not limited to html files or the web.
About NG-Computing
NG-Computing was founded on May, 2001 on a lovely HP48. Over the years, capabilities has evolved while preserving general principle of innovation and quality orientation. In April, 2008, the company announced it's first public product, the Fora reading tool and language aid.
Contact
For feedback, problems, comments, feature requests please feel free to send email to:
support <at> ng-comp <dot> com.