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Thursday, December 2, 2010

Dictionary help in OSX

Did you know?

Students  often ask me (especially when they visit as guest in my Techlab, and I am busy trying to do something for myself) for the meaning or spelling of a word, or need help understanding a word or phrase.

As long as you are using a native Mac application (such as Pages, Safari), you can press <ctrl> <cmd><d>  and of you go; you get this wonderful little pop-up window that explains a lot. Keep moving your mouse (while holding the keys), and you get to see the neighboring words as well.

You can also click <More> and open the full Dictionary Window, showing more options.

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