{"id":623,"date":"2008-05-30T07:25:25","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T12:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/?p=623"},"modified":"2008-05-30T07:25:26","modified_gmt":"2008-05-30T12:25:26","slug":"another-handy-keyboard-shortcut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/2008\/05\/another-handy-keyboard-shortcut\/","title":{"rendered":"another handy keyboard shortcut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/db.tidbits.com\/article\/9634\">Tip: See Dictionary Definitions in Real Time<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;ve just run across a useful little variant in how you can use Mac OS X&#8217;s built-in dictionary service to see definitions of words in your documents. You undoubtedly know that you can Control-click or right-click any word and choose Look Up in Dictionary to display a little pop-up definition (some applications instead launch the full Dictionary application). And you may know that if you press Command-Control-D, the little dictionary pop-up appears for the word currently under the pointer. But if you press Command-Control-D and keep holding the Command and Control keys down, in either Tiger or Leopard, that little dictionary pop-up stays on screen and changes to define whatever word is under it as you move the pointer around. Try it yourself, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tidbits.com\/resources\/2008-05\/Definitions-screencast.mov\">watch my brief screencast<\/a> demonstrating the feature.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2008 Adam C. Engst. TidBITS is copyright \u00a9 2008 TidBITS Publishing Inc. If you&#8217;re reading this article on a Web site other than TidBITS.com, please <a href=\"http:\/\/db.tidbits.com\/contact.html\">let us know<\/a>, because if it was republished without attribution, by a commercial site, or in modified form, it violates <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tidbits.com\/terms\/\">our Creative Commons License<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tip: See Dictionary Definitions in Real Time: I&#8217;ve just run across a useful little variant in how you can use Mac OS X&#8217;s built-in dictionary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":647,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pekNN-a3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}