Setter

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We're talking to you today about Setter, an application Open source ¹ very interesting and which can help you in online searches and in the daily use of your mobile phone.

In fact, once installed you can configure it in a very simple way. There are only two options: which one is yours Search engine primary? And the secondary one? In fact there is also a third option: the possibility of using also ColorDict, an offline dictionary.

Once you have chosen your settings, use is just as simple. Open yours Browsers preferred (we tested it with both Firefox that with Brave) and select a word. You will magically see the option “Search in Setter“. Once pressed you will search for the selected content on Search engine that you chose as the first option.

Setter

So far nothing special. The nice thing is that you will find other tabs:

• Local, relating to the second Search engine that you had previously selected;

• Twitter, to search for that phrase or word directly on Twitter;

• Reddit, ditto but for Reddit. The selected word or phrase will automatically be searched within the social network;

• Wechat And Weibo, a search will also be carried out within these two Chinese engines. So, unless you know the language, they are useless to many people.

Furthermore, as we were saying, if you have also installed the application ColorDict to perform offline translations. If you like this last option we also suggest you try it QuickDec which we talked about in the article on alternatives to Google translator. QuickDec, Unlike ColorDict, And Open source ² and also available on F-Droid.

We found it to be an intelligent and potentially interesting application for quickly searching for the same word or phrase on different search engines and social media.

We think it would be very nice if the default searches could be replaced in some way and if the possibility to use was perhaps added Nitter or Teddit in the place of Twitter And Reddit.

1. source code on GitHub[↩]
2. source code by QuickDic[↩]

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