Look up in Dictionary in contextual menu!!!

I gets even better...Hold down all at once these keys: Apple, Control, and D. Then move your mouse over a word. Hows that for wow??!!

 

Not sure...I know that there are a few threads about stuff like this, just not sure where they are, just look around...tons of tricks are hidden in here scattered about.

 

Someones late to the party.

 

But hey, at least they came!

 

I take this is a Tiger feature?!?!?

 

yep.

 

I didn't know about it either, so shush.

 

i heard about it only a little while ago myself....

on another note, anyone know what apps this works in? i know Safari but what other ones? is is limited or System wide?

 

IIRC, it works in any Cocoa applications but not the Carbon ones.

 

That's right. It comes in handy in apps like Mail, Adium, Conversation and TextWrangler. I think that as long as the app supports OS X native spellchecking it also supports the Dictionary "trick".

Edit: He-he, it even works on "open" text fields in iTunes...

 

And if you continue holding down Control+Command, you can mouse over other words to get their definitions.

 

That's for the context menu you get when ctrl/right-click (edit: you also have to mark the word, which you don't need with the ctrl-cmd-D). Shouldn't affect the ctrl-cmd-D way of getting the panel. I actually prefer to have the panel come up with ctrl-cmd-D and the Dictionary.app to launch from the context menu. It gives me more flexibility...

 

thank you very much for letting me know, i guess thats why it doesnt work with Camnio....

 

Definitely one of the best features in Tiger. I've used this more in the past few months then any other new feature I think.

 

Camino is Cocoa, just the current builds don't support it. Its on the roadmap however.