Escaped Thoughts

Sat, Apr 30, 2005

My Tiger Tip

One of my favorite new Tiger features is small, and tucked away somewhat, so it's not widely known:

  1. Open up Mail, Safari, TextEdit, or just about anything Cocoa (sadly, no Camino though)
  2. Hold down Command-Control-D (well actually you don't have to keep holding the D, oddly enough)
  3. Mouse over some words
  4. Make “ooh” and “aah” noises

You can get the same effect on just one word with the selection context menu item “Look Up in Dictionary”—by default that will open the new Dictionary application, but there's a preference in Dictionary that makes it use the panel instead. I'd have used the much cooler panel as the default myself, but having the preference is enough for me.

Update: Buzz has posted a picture of the dictionary panel, which should be handy for those of my readers too misguided to be able to try this out for themselves.

Other's Thoughts

From the weblog carpeaqua - Sat, Apr 30, 2005
Lookup Words Anywhere

Let's say you are reading a journal report on a website, and don't really understand what a word is. Apple's new Dictionary application and its brother, the Dashboard Widget, makes its easy to copy/paste a word in and look it... [more]

From the mind of Stuart - Mon, May 02, 2005
Apparently I'm not the only one who likes it

Thanks to Buzz, this has gotten a lot more visibility than I ever would have expected. Since I get a kick out of seeing the places this has spread to, I thought I'd add some trackbacks to the weblogs I know of that linked here. If for some reason I can't fathom at the moment any of the authors don't want trackbacks, let me know and I'll remove them.

First, one I can't add as a trackback unless I convert my blog to UTF: Poptarts Diary

From the weblog Movin' to Seattle... - Mon, May 02, 2005
Mmm, words!

Tiger's new dictionary feature is just too cool! [more]

From the weblog TechGoesBoom - Mon, May 02, 2005
Mouse-over dictionary in Tiger

This is a tiny thing, but it nevertheless almost made me wet my pants: In a Cocoa application, hold down Command-Control-D and mouse over a word for a dictionary definition or thesaurus lookup on that word... [more]

From the weblog MacOrama - Mon, May 02, 2005
Apfel+ctrl+D

Oxford Dictionary und Thesaurus sind jederzeit per Apfel+ctrl+D Kürzel zur Hand und zeigen ihre Weisheit zum unter der Maus liegenden Wort... [more]

From the mind of Stuart - Mon, May 02, 2005
And also...

A comment on a post at Macfeber.

I wish I could read more of the links. I'll get to German one of these days, but Swedish? Probably not, sadly.

From the weblog Macfeber - Tue, May 03, 2005
Tigern har inbyggd ordbok

En mycket trevlig funktion med Tiger är att det finns ett inbyggt program som heter Dictionary, som är precis det, en ordbok... [more]

From the weblog Macslack - Fri, May 06, 2005
Dictionary insta-lookup

Favorite new feature of Tiger: instant dictionary lookups. In any Cocoa application (Mail, Safari, NewsFire, Adium, etc) press command-control-D and move the mouse over text for a popdown window... [more]

From the weblog melablog.it - Fri, May 06, 2005
Dizionario a portata di mano

Tra le funzionalità più apprezzate di Tiger c'è il dizionario, disponibile con la pressione di 3 soli tasti, command-control-D. [more]

From the weblog Letters From Exile - Mon, May 30, 2005
Neat Tiger Dictionary Trick

Buzz has posted a picture of one of the cool buried features in Tiger. If you hold down Command-Control-D in any Cocoa app you get a cool floating dictionary window. [more]

From the weblog Speed of Thought... - Wed, Jun 15, 2005
Stuff...

Wouldn't it be nice, that when you run across a word you don't know, you could just hit a hot-key combo and get a dictionary? Well you can in Tiger... [more]

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