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In Snow Leopard, the Dictionary app opens a new window every time you look up a word in Spotlight or via the Services menu. This hint explains how to force Dictionary to use one window.
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30 Sep 2009Filed under: Tips and tricks The Dictionary.app in Snow Leopard has been driving me nuts. If you use LaunchBar or Spotlight (or probably any other method of sending a word to Dictionary.app), it opens a new window. And then another. And then another. This might be handy if the window bar was updated to show the word that you had looked up, but it doesn’t, meaning that the extra windows are just clutter
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25 Jun 2009Filed under: Software , Mac 101 Welcome back to Mac 101, our series of posts aimed at novice Mac users and veterans who like the occasional refresher. Mac OS X is equipped with a dictionary application that does pretty much what you’d expect, and a few things you might not
The name says it all: WordDigest is a dictionary, thesaurus, and spell checker all contained in one handy app. Note: we have two free copies of this app to give away – see the bottom of this post for more details. The Good Easy word look up via the search section. Get live results as you type, or use a letter column on the right side of the screen to scroll through the alphabet. Clicking on a word takes you to its definition in the dictionary, which boasts more than 147,000 words.
Learn how to control which dictionary is used for Spotlight’s definitions feature in OS X 10.5. Also learn where to find additional dictionaries for the Dictionary app.
With keyboard shortcuts, you can control iTunes without having to grab the mouse much of the time.
For those looking to do even more with LaunchBar, you can make it into a VoIP phone dialer.
If you want to apply the visually distinctive appearance of light in the out-of-focus area of a photograph — a term known as “bokeh” — you’ve come to the right place. James Dempsey shows you how to do it with a $199 plug-in from Alien Skin Software.
The outside of the box said "Windows base machine or better", so I bought a Mac.
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