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DEC
23

Leopard Tricks : Dictionary

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Adding Reference Libraries

By default, your dictionary's reference libraries shown are Wikipedia, Dictionary, Thesaurus and Apple. Obviously, you can add more references to it.

First, go to your Dictionary Preferences Pane by either using keystrokes [,] or using menu bar Dictionary ▸ Preferences. Then you will see there are more than four default references which is available for your Dictionary.

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NOV
25

Actually, you don't need to open dictionary application each time you want to check the definition of a word. You can use this :

Quick Dictionary


Snapshot above is taken when I looked up a word definition in dictionary. What I have to do is I just need to put my pointer above certain word then I pressed D and I got this small pop-up dictionary pane right in front my eyes.

Customizing Keyboard Shortcuts


If you looked inside System Preferences ▸ Keyboard & Mouse ▸ Keyboard Shortcuts, there will be a long list of keyboard shortcuts. These all shortcuts can be customized by Double-Clicking on top of the shortcut symbol and filling in new keyboard shortcut.

Here is all the keyboard shortcuts that can be customized inside :

1 Toggle Front Row Cmd-Escape
2 Quick Dictionary Cmd-Control-D
3 Help Cmd-Shift-Slash[/]

Screen Shots


4 Snap Whole Screen Cmd-Shift-3
5 Snap Whole Screen to Clipboard Cmd-Control-Shift-3
6 Snap Certain Area Cmd-Shift-4
7 Snap Certain Area to Clipboard Cmd-Control-Shift-4

Zoom


8 Activate Zoom Cmd-Option-8
9 Image Smoothing Cmd-Option-Backslash[\]
10 Zoom Out Cmd-Option-Hyphen[-]
11 Zoom In Cmd-Option-Equal Sign[=]

Contrast


12 Increase Contrast Cmd-Option-Control-Period[.]
13 Decrease Contrast Cmd-Option-Control-Comma[,]
14 Invert Cmd-Option-Control-8
15 Toggle VoiceOver Cmd-F5

16 Toggle Full Access Control-F1

Move to


17 Menu Bar Control-F2
18 Dock Control-F3
19 Next Active Window Control-F4
20 Toolbar Control-F5
21 Floating Window Control-F6
22 Text Boxes and Lists Control-F7
23 Menu Bar Status Menu Control-F8
24 Other Window within Application Cmd-Accent[`]
25 Window Drawer Cmd-Option-Single Quote[']
26 Toggle Character Palette Cmd-Option-T

Dock, Expose, and Dashboard


27 Hide/Show Dock Cmd-Option-D
28 Show Spaces F8
29 Show All Windows F9
30 Show Application Windows F10
31 Show Desktop F11
32 Show Dashboard F12

Spotlight


33 Search Field Cmd-Space
34 Window Cmd-Option-Space

Display


35 Decrease Brightness F14
36 Increase Brightness F15

These shortcuts haven't received much changed compare to Mac OS X Tiger. Only Front Row, Quick Dictionary, and Spaces are considered new on Leopard.

OCT
28

Leopard Dictionary got a new look.

Unlike old Tiger OS where Thesaurus and Dictionary are separated into two different Applications, Mac OS X Leopard integrates Dictionary, Thesaurus, Apple Dictionary and Wikipedia into one single Application called Dictionary.

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