Mac Tiplet

I know a few of you out there are sporting newly purchased MacBook Pros and many more of you are sharing the MAC lurve. Here is an interesting little tiplet that you probably already know (but that I just discovered).

OS X (Tiger) has a built-in dictionary and thesaurus. Big deal, you say. Well it is! You can check your spelling in any program by highlighting a word and ctrl-clicking it. You can even highlight whole passages and check them too. Even better, if you are reading a text that is using highfaluting language, you can just look it up in the dictionary right then and there.

Here, practise with these words: horological, bullate, equerries.

Tags: Apple, OS X