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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Posted on Wednesday, July 20th, 2005 at 2:24 pm.
Filed under categories: Apple, Design, Mac, Tech.
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7 Responses to “Tiger Dictionary”

1. Pramod Biligiri Says:
   July 21st, 2005 at 12:18 pm

   Where does it get the meaning from? From the snapshot, it looks like you can fetch from the Net…some kind of web service?

2. Swaroop Says:
   July 21st, 2005 at 12:39 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.

3. Noorul Says:
   July 21st, 2005 at 4:18 pm

   Well, true. Premshree might have looked into the TOS before doing that.

   Well thats a nice hack

4. Swaroop Says:
   July 22nd, 2005 at 2:27 pm

   @Noorul: See his post on that.

5. jj Says:
   July 30th, 2005 at 8:30 am

   It only works with cocoa applications.

6. Allagappan Muthuraman Says:
   August 8th, 2005 at 8:57 pm

   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

7. Swaroop Says:
   August 8th, 2005 at 10:09 pm

   @Allagappan: How to use Greasemonkey.

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