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Dictionary.app on blogs
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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