Some new Dictionary tricks in 10.5

As always, applications on the Mac have hidden secrets beneath them. This post from Macworld shows some cool tricks in Leopard’s Dictionary app, and how to get the most out of it. In Leopard, Dictionary received a completely new look – but it wasn’t just the look that changed. A number of new features were added to it, including “technical jargon” definitions, Wikipedia entries, a huge resource called “front and back matter” full of things like Chemical Element tables and world maps and much, much more. All of these things are not really secrets, you can find them in the Dictionary help menu, or on Apple’s list of 300 new Leopard features.

You can rename the labels for each dictionary (the row at the top of the window). For example, by default it shows “All – Dictionary – Thesaurus – Apple – Wikipedia”. You can change this to anything you like, by simply right-clicking the label you want to change and selecting Edit Label from the contextual menu. Just type the new label and click OK. Sounds pretty obvious, but I bet you hadn’t realised it.

There are some more great tips on Dictionary at the Macworld article below:

Via [Macworld]