FreeVsaurus - A free visual thesaurus
FreeVsaurus is a project I wrote in my spare time over the course of a couple of weeks. Although it is written in jython (and therefore compiles to Java) it currently only runs on Mac OS X because I'm using the OS X Oxford dictionary as the data source. (If this data source is copied to another platform it can be used on any platform that supports Java, however I cannot legally distribute the data source.) I intend to write a layer that will allow it to be more extensible in terms of the data sources that can be used and to write an extension that will allow it to use Wiktionary as a data source.
Project status
FreeVSaurus is usable in its current form although I would consider it to be 'alpha' software. I intend to advance this to the beta stage through summer of 2006. The beta form will use a data source that is available across platforms.
Downloads
FreeVsaurus is GPL code. I have provided a compiled jar file for the convenience of Mac OS X users here. Note that I have only tested with Tiger, I don't have access to other variants of the OS X operating system to test with. You can run the jar file by opening a terminal, change to your download directory and type: 'gunzip freeVsaurus.jar.gz' 'java -jar freeVsaurus.jar'.
- Byte code binary: freeVsaurus.jar.gz
- Source code: freeVsaurus.tar.gz
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