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Dictionary.app on blogs
One of the best additions in Tiger is Dictionary.app, if you ask me. As C.K. has pointed out it you can almost instantaneously look up words on the fly. How cool is that?
However, there is trouble in paradise. Robot Johnny looked up 'blog' in Dictionary.app and this is what he got:
Hey, I resemble that remark!
However, there is trouble in paradise. Robot Johnny looked up 'blog' in Dictionary.app and this is what he got:
Hey, I resemble that remark!
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Al said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
I love people with a sense of humor.
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Michael Katz said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
i want to see if dictionary can be hacked to use wiki instead
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Jerry Halstead said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
My dictionary doesn't say that, but it does say that Johnny is a short gown fastened in the back worn by hospital patients...
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Scott said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
Another cool dictionary thing -- you can hold down apple-ctrl-d and mouse over words in safari, mail, ichat to get an instant definition.
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Scott said 4:17PM on 6-16-2005
Ok.. I'm a dolt. I just read the click link and saw that that is what you were commenting on. Ignore me ;)
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Carl said 4:18PM on 6-16-2005
I don't have Tiger quite yet, but isn't the italic part just a quote? The actual definition is "a web log," right?
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Dean Shan said 4:18PM on 6-16-2005
Michael, although you can't hack the dictionary to use Wikipedia you can get a Widget to do so.
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/dashboard/wikipedia.html
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Brandon said 8:05PM on 6-27-2005
Re: #2
I doubt that Dictionary.app can be hacked to use a different source since Apple has the dictionary/thesaurus source files embedded into the OS X. The application probably isn't capable of accessing the internet even.
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neil said 9:51PM on 10-27-2005
If you go to the prefs of Dictionary.app, you can set a contextual menu for getting a definition. AKA, right click on a selected word and a small window with the definition, instead of the entire app opening. Cocoa apps only, I believe.
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