Computer Crashes and Trillian Wiki

Well I am in the middle of a serious computer crash that threathens to leave me without my laptop for a few days at the minimum, ever longer if it goes south.

In any event, I ended up borrowing a laptop and I installed some of the basic apps I need like Firebird, Thunderbird, and Trillian. It sucks that I can't get to my old bookmarks and mail (which really sucks). I installed Trillian 3.0 (didn't know it went that high actually - I'm still on 1).

As I sent out a quick IM to a friend, I noticed that one of the words got a dotted underline below one of the words I wrote. I didn't make it a link so I assumed it was something that Trillian was highlighting on my behalf.

So I moused over this term to find a tool tip like window appear that provided me with a definition from Wikipedia! Anyone who's read here frequently knows I am not the greatest fan of Wiki technology as a whole, but I do think Wikipedia is probably one of the best uses I can think of. It seems this feature is called Instant Lookup and it underlines words that have encyclopedia entries. Way to go Wikipedia (and Trillian of course).

I wonder why we don't get more of this integration, to tell you the truth.