Filed under: iPod Family, iPhone, iPhone 101
If you are running the new 2.0 firmware on your iPhone or iPod touch, you might not have noticed a new handy shortcut in Safari.
Use Spotlight as a reference tool. Type any word in the Spotlight box and one of the top entries will be a definition. Click on it, and it will bring up the dictionary application to check the word in either the dictionary, thesaurus, Apple database, or Wikipedia.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Christopher Kalanderopoulos said 6:07PM on 7-15-2008
Uhhh, this was functionality in the first iPhone, I believe. I'm pretty sure Steve Jobs showed it off at the keynote when the Jesus-phone was announced.
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Ian said 6:16PM on 7-15-2008
Nope, just tried it with my 1.1.4 phone and I just get .com.
Scott said 6:20PM on 7-15-2008
Holding down the period button also gets the same choices in the compose mail screen. I consider this to be yet another elegant feature of Apple design. Very space-sensitive and very easy.
Michael said 6:50PM on 7-15-2008
I don't remember the feature being demonstrated by Steve Jobs on stage last year, but a pop-up option with .com and .co.uk has been available on UK iPhones (and iPod touch) since at least November 2007.
(01) said 9:17PM on 7-15-2008
Nope, you could hold down the .com button and it would open up a box, but there was only the one domain in it. I submitted a request for this feature as well, glad to see it's here. Now the ability to add whatever domains you wanted (top level or not) would be cool....
Jamma said 6:14PM on 7-15-2008
Oh, and if you are using a non US keyboard (UK in my case), your country's own domain will appear, such as .co.uk
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ajprice said 6:44PM on 7-15-2008
I came in here to moan about .org .net and .edu being the fixed options instead of .co.uk, but then I read your post and all is well in the world again! Thanks for that info, it saved me a minor rant :) .
Jamma said 6:56PM on 7-15-2008
Yeah i was going to rant too, but i thought i'd try it first. i'm happy now, it's saving me loads of time typing in web addresses :)
Well spotted guys
Jakob Henner said 7:10PM on 7-15-2008
Ty-typical TUAW always forgets non-Americans :D
Mine official shows: .dk, .com, .org, .nu
Stu J said 5:35AM on 7-16-2008
what is annoying (strange) .. is that it allows:
*.edu / *.org / *.co.uk & .com ... what about .net for the UK? shame there isn't an option to change it to what you would like. I can't remember the last time I went to a *.edu site, or even a .org site if I am honest. .net / .com & .co.uk are the main ones. (for me that is)
2.1 software anyone?
Kev Orng said 10:24AM on 7-16-2008
No .ca for Canadians.
Is it because mine is an iPod Touch, or is it because it's Canada?
Either way, I'd love to find a hack to add it in.
Jason said 6:24PM on 7-15-2008
also, if it's just a period without the com, but it's for an email address field, you can hold down the period and get this same thing.
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Long. said 6:56PM on 7-15-2008
cool, I'll hold down every key to see if there's something new :P
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Rick said 6:47PM on 7-15-2008
amazing. changed my life. thank you, TUAW
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Michael said 7:04PM on 7-15-2008
Great tip. Now can someone tell me how I can keep iPhoto from trying to import my photos from my iPhone every time I plug it into my computer?
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Chris Grande said 7:34PM on 7-15-2008
The best you can do is tell iPhone not to open when a camera is attached. You can set this from the General Preferences screen of iPhoto.
(01) said 9:19PM on 7-15-2008
I've heard people complain about this, but I've never had it happen to me (8 GB 2G since Dec 07). Weird.
ERock said 11:46PM on 7-15-2008
I have an AppleScript application that runs whenever a camera is connected. It tells iPhoto to ignore the iPhone. Unfortunately, I can't recall where I found the tip, but I'm happy to share the app.
Jamma said 7:14PM on 7-15-2008
Sorry for a little bit of irrelevancy here, but i've just noticed on 2.0 that contacts now has a search, the iTunes remote app has a search,
yet music doesn't... even on the iPod Touch
i know it's not hard to find music, but i have a damn sight more songs than i do contacts, and a quick search would make finding a single song/artist/etc much easier
p.s maybe an e-mail inbox search would be handy too
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Javier said 7:32PM on 7-15-2008
I think I get bragging rights... ;-)
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=7330056#7330056
Unfortunately, Apple neither confirms nor denies.
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