While looking for a Chinese dictionary tool tip application for OS X, I found a Chinese module for the Dictionary app. By combining this with another cool feature to allow mouse-over pop ups from the built in dictionary, I thought I had a good solution.
Except the shortcut didn’t work. Basically, the shortcut “command-ctrl-D” to make the dictionary popup come up, doesn’t work at all. This problem seems to affect some preinstalled Leopard systems.
I ran across a few solutions, like making sure you were using the right key combination, making sure it was enabled, or making sure the dictionary app was in the applications folder. None of these worked for me.
After scrounging the internet forever, this simple solution worked for me.
I know the article doesn’t seem relevant, but it solved the problem, so maybe some random googler will find this helpful.
I should note, the tooltip for Chinese solution is still not ideal, but I haven’t found a free solution that works well, yet.
Andrew
/ October 27, 2008I still can’t believe you use a Mac. Seriously, it like, shocks me to this day. What happened to all of our youth? To all the time spent configuring network settings and reformatting our computers? Reinstalling hardware over and over again and trying to resolve IRQ conflicts? Don’t any of these things mean anything to you?????????
Tyler
/ October 27, 2008Come on, Andy, we weren’t ever that hardcore. We were PC users, not linux hackers.
I do miss playing games, though. I’m contemplating buying a copy of Vista for my next computer (assuming I can get one with a decent graphics card). I have a list of games from the past few years that I will play “someday.”
Andrew
/ October 30, 2008Haha… my irony must not have come across properly. I guess it is sort of hardcore to be able to deal with these things, but I was more intent on satirizing the ridiculousness of all the time-consuming things we had to do just to operate our computers.
I haven’t used it much, but I personally like Vista a lot when I used it. It seemed to have serious improvements over XP. That said, Windows 7 is coming out next year, so you can probably just wait for that.
By the way – I was thinking of buying a new desktop for gaming and stuff, and when I thought about spending $1,500 on a good one, I realized there’s a reason people aren’t in to PC games. It’s just way too expensive. Even with my current income, that’s a whole month’s disposable income. I.e. no eating (except for what I can buy with my $20 a day meal allowance) and no drinking and no purchases for an entire month… I might be willing to do it. But still… makes one realize how convenient console gaming is in comparison.