Using the Oxford Dictionary in Mac OS X
by Volker Weber
This feature has been reported widely, but I thought I should also mention it. Mac OS X comes with an Oxford Dictionary, and you can look up words with a shortcut. Just highlight the word and hit Ctrl-Command-D (Crtl-Apple-D on german keyboards). Very neat. Unfortunately it only works in english. There are no other dictionaries included.
What has been less reported is that there is also a Thesaurus.
Comments
Hm, not working in Camino. But in Vienna and other apps also. Anybody knows why?
Martin, the feature is only available in in Cocoa NSTextViews. Some applications use textfields from other GUI kits (Carbon, XUL, Swing, etc.).
Discovered this feature during our mac-affair but wasn't sure if it was a demo product we'd have to pay for later. Just a further thing to add to the extreme value that is OS X.
comes in very handy, indeed. Thanks for updating me, what drink will it be? :-)
On Windows I use WordWeb, seems to work almost exactly the same way and as far as I'm aware in all applications.
Is there any way to upgrade this application to provide definitions for English(UK) rather than English(US)?
