Mac OS X Tiger, Instant Dictionary

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August 2, 2005
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With the introduction of a built-in dictionary, Mac users can now look up words without accessing an application. Although, Dashboard seems the fastest way to find out meanings to new words you come across, there is a shorter, faster, way.

To quickly find out the meaning of a word, highlight the word and use the shortcut CMD + CTRL + D. The meaning of the word will be displayed instantly.

This feature works in all Cocoa applications. In the example picture above, we demonstrate its use in Apple’s Safari v.2.0.

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In 1978, founders Matt and Hendricks were looking for a tech event to showcase their new startup. When they couldn’t find one that checked all the boxes they decided to host their own. As they were organizing things, they soon realized they needed somewhere to promote the conference, and that’s how newsweb.com was launched. It later became a blog and the result is what you are looking at right now.