renzien.blogspot.com — Pressing the ESC key after typing in a character or part of a word while in iChat, Mail, TextEdit, etc. will reveal a drop down menu. This menu contains all the words your computer knows that begin with that combination of letters! Pretty neat, and a great time saver!!
Sep 19, 2006 View in Crawl 4
ephetersonSep 20, 2006
For those who use windows, check out tinyspell:<a class="user" href="http://tinyspell.m6.net/">http://tinyspell.m6.net/</a>
gregrSep 20, 2006
After using it in TextEdit then it worked fine - not sure why.
inkswampSep 20, 2006
If you require the use of the integrated dictionary in OS X, open the Dictionary application and check the "open in panel" in its preferences settings, then quit the application. Now in any location in any Cocoa-based app, you can highlight a word and control+click or right+click on it and select "Look up in Dictionary" which will cause a small floating bubble to show up with the definition and an option to switch to the built-in thesaurus. I find this to be one of the most useful features of OS X and it's practically hidden.
timeblindSep 20, 2006
right click to get contextual menu, select Dictionary. when that pops up switch over to Thesaurus
onestepSep 20, 2006
Yea.. this was posted before.. .Old news.<a class="user" href="http://www.thinkmac.net/blog/archives/mac-tips-daily-185-guess-a-word.html">http://www.thinkmac.net/blog/archives/mac-tips-daily-185-guess-a-word.html</a>
ben64Sep 20, 2006
A spellchecker? What will they think of next?!
porkstackerSep 20, 2006
Even though I am a long-time MacHead (22 years total) I like learning about cool tidbits like this! Coolness!!! I never had to switch!!!
diskgrinderSep 21, 2006
saying this is "old news" is a little harsh, not to say patronising; has this old news been dugg before? Seems, by definition, that it's not old news to me if I haven't heard it before.Perhaps it should be called new olds.