Idea for Safari and MacOS X Services

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in Mac Software edited January 2014
Wouldn't it be cool to right click on a word in Safari and see a Define command that used www.dictionary.com? Or even a system-wide Service that did this throughout OS X?

edit: the link works even with the question mark!

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 9
    chuckerchucker Posts: 5,089member
    Um, did you try OMNIdictionary?
  • Reply 2 of 9
    aquaticaquatic Posts: 5,602member
    Yowza don't hurt me.



    That's cool stuff, I'm downloading it now. So if it's freeware...Apple should bundle it or buy it from them and integrate it with OS X.



    Edit: This application has nothing to do with Safari contextual menus or OS X Services.
  • Reply 3 of 9
    Guh, why don't you just buy a dictionary?
  • Reply 4 of 9
    Services are great, but they need to be taken a tad further. Who remembers a little technology that came out of Apple in the disarray of the latter half of the nineties called ADD; Apple Data Detectors.



    It was great, and it did just that. Bring Services into a more transparent contextual sense, and you have modern day apple data detectors.
  • Reply 5 of 9
    aquaticaquatic Posts: 5,602member
    Good call LoCash!



    Guh, I bought a PowerBook so I wouldn't have to carry real books.



    Another thought I just had was how much the Safari download window sucks. Why can't we restart downloads from there or see the URL or do the other things we can in IE?
  • Reply 6 of 9
    Double-click to select the word in Safari, right-click and choose Google Search.



    When the results are presented there will be a blue bar that says "Searched the web for example search term" at one side and "Results 1 - 10 of about 61,100,000. Search took 0.13 seconds" on the other.



    If any of the words you searched for is found at dictionary.com it will be underlined and hyperlinked, click to go to the definition.
  • Reply 7 of 9
    zedzed Posts: 7member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by LoCash

    Services are great, but they need to be taken a tad further. Who remembers a little technology that came out of Apple in the disarray of the latter half of the nineties called ADD; Apple Data Detectors.



    It was great, and it did just that. Bring Services into a more transparent contextual sense, and you have modern day apple data detectors.




    Indeed. But the name ADD would need to be changed...
  • Reply 8 of 9
    fahlmanfahlman Posts: 739member
    Nevermind
  • Reply 9 of 9
    ast3r3xast3r3x Posts: 5,012member
    i would think apple would have higher standards and use www.m-w.com
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