Did you know about the built-in dictionary? This is in OS X since Tiger: It's a weird key combo, but it's sooooo cool: In Mail or TextEdit or Safari -- any good Mac app (which excludes, par exemple, MS Office 2004 but includes Office 2008) -- put your cursor over any word, and hold down ctrl-command-D. Cool, huh? (The "command" key is now called that on newer keyboards; it used to be the key with an apple and a squiggly thing.)
Now move your cursor over other words while holding down those keys. Notice that there's a thesaurus in the drop-down that says "Dictionary." Now tell me that's not friggin' sweet.
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Holy carp! That's friggin' sweet.
Is that documented anywhere, or are people just supposed to discover it somehow?
It's buried in Help in Dictionary.app. Like everything else (on any OS, I suppose), one has to be either a) optimistically trawling for a specific feature or b) scouring the various sites like macosxhints.com on some kind of regular basis.
BTW, I made a big boo-boo typo: It's ctrl-COMMAND-D, not ctrl-option-D.
Alleluiah! Wait did I spell that write? Let me ctrl-COMMAND-D it. Oops. No it's wrong...
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