Mac Kindergarten

Do you remember those old days, when you had a dictionary and a thesaurus on your shelf, waiting for you to grab them and look up stuff. Then the internet came along and Wikipedia did all that away. Now correct writing as well as looking up meanings is a matter of using a search engine.

Don’t get me wrong, Wikipedia is great but there is a real dictionary that is at your hand, right there on your Mac. What about a quick look at a word? What about a quick substitution for that word, in order not to use it again in two straight sentences?

Meet Dictionary - Mac OS X’s dictionary application. It includes a thesaurus, a special Apple-related dictionary and it can even look up stuff on wikipedia (directly from the application itself - without the website).

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As you might have seen already, in every application menu, there this menu item, called Services.

It’s one of the less prominent features of Mac OS X, but today we will see, how Services can make your life easier and more convenient, all from the application menu.

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