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Tekzilla Daily: Hidden writing tool in OS X
Created: 10/02/2008
Video description: Even an accomplished writer needs some help every now and then. Veronica has the lead on a secret tool guaranteed to help any writer in today's Tekzilla Daily.

Tekzilla Daily: Hidden writing tool in OS X Video Transcript

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>> Hey everyone welcome to Tekzilla Daily, I'm Veronica Belmont. How many times have you been surfing the web, perhaps a news article, and you come across a word you don't know? Sure you could open a new tab, surf on over to dictionary.com and look it up, but that kind of interrupts the whole flow of the experience and usually takes so long that you normally wouldn't even bother. Well, if you're using OS10 you're in luck. In any Cocoa application like Safari, iChat, Mail, etcetera, just place the mouse cursor over the troublesome word and press Apple, Ctrl, D, up pops a handy dandy dictionary. Plus, if you hold that key-combo and move the mouse around, you'll get difinitions for any word you move across. Feeling smart or pretending to be over e-mail or IM has never been easier. Now, if you have a tip you want to send our way, e-mail us at tekzilla@revision3.com, and remember tekzilla.com, it's the place to find more tips, tricks, product reviews, and how-to's. ^M00:00:57 [ Silence ] ^M00:01:00

>> Oh my God! ^E00:01:02

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