Feeling ever so guilty as I wrote a friend telling her that my blog
has fallen to disuse, I decided that I should post something, and
post something i shall.
I want to tell the world about newsinchinese.com and their new tool
for Firefox (both mac and pc) that allows users the benefit of an
instant dictionary for any page that reads simplified (GB coded)
chinese, e.g. People's Daily. Below are the instructions that i have
modified slightly. Anyway, newsinchinese.com is an example of this
tool. The dictionary isn't as good as wenlin or pleco, but it is
quite good.

**INSTRUCTIONS**
How to use the Adsotrans instant mouseover dictionary through firefox

(1) Install or Upgrade to Firefox v. 1.5 http://www.mozilla.com
Mac or PC

(2) Download Greasemonkey and restart Firefox:
http://greasemonkey.mozdev.org/changes/0.6.4.html
Click Install Greasemonkey.

(3) Visit the following page and click on the "Install" button:
http://www.adsotrans.com/downloads/adso.user.js

USAGE:
(1) Visit any page with Chinese text.
(2) Press lowercase 'a' (Note: you must be using English (USA?) text,
you can use the Chinese input, even if you are inputing english
(3) Click on any Chinese text.

A couple of more detailed notes:

(1) you don't need to press 'a' every time you annotate Chinese text,
but you do need to press it again if you have pressed any other keys
in the meantime. Hitting any key but 'a' deactivates the service so
that the plug doesn't start popping up unexpectedly when people are
typing and clicking.
(2) there are occasional places where the javascript seems to have
issues picking up the text, or I find myself needing to click twice.
This is especially the case with links and seems to be a Greasemonkey
issue.
(3) annotation doesn't work for webpages encoded in BIG5 yet.

Feel Free to email me with questions

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