Tiger Dictionary
Just discovered a new shortcut for the Dictionary in Mac OS X Tiger - Press Cmd-Ctrl-D and voila, it shows the meanings of the selected word in my browser!
P.S. In case you are wondering, I’m reading the RSS feed for Sepia Mutiny.
Update: The shortcut works everywhere, not just the browser.
Update: Premshree has written a Greasemonkey script that does the same for you on Firefox, although I don’t know if it’s okay by OneLook’s TOS since it does site-scraping.
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7 comments
Where does it get the meaning from? From the snapshot, it looks like you can fetch from the Net…some kind of web service?
July 21st, 2005, 12:18 pm | #
Every copy of Tiger comes with the Oxford Dictionary and Oxford Writer’s Thesaurus built-in. It’s usually not mentioned in the reviews, but I think it’s a great value-add.
July 21st, 2005, 12:39 pm | #
Well, true. Premshree might have looked into the TOS before doing that.
Well thats a nice hack
July 21st, 2005, 4:18 pm | #
@Noorul: See his post on that.
July 22nd, 2005, 2:27 pm | #
It only works with cocoa applications.
July 30th, 2005, 8:30 am | #
Hey,where do I add the script by Premshree @ http://premshree.seacrow.com/code/gm/dict.user.js
PS:I use Firefox in Fedora Core 3
August 8th, 2005, 8:57 pm | #
@Allagappan: How to use Greasemonkey.
August 8th, 2005, 10:09 pm | #
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