Geek Posted June 20, 2011 Posted June 20, 2011 <div class="KonaBody"><p><img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/three-fingered-tap-dictionary-lion.jpg" alt="Three Fingered Tap in Lion for a Dictionary" title="three-fingered-tap-dictionary-lion" width="620" height="382" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-17638" /></p> <p>Applying a three-fingered tap on any word in a <a href="http://osxdaily.com/tag/mac-os-x-10-7/">Mac OS X 10.7 Lion</a> native apps brings up a pop-up dictionary, thesaurus, and even a Wikipedia entry on that word. If the summary isn’t enough information, you can select to read more directly from the QuickLook-esque popup. </p> <p>This is a students dream, but it should be useful to anyone reading things on the web or elsewhere when they run into a word they want some more information on, whether it be just a simple definition or the entire Wikipedia backed entry on a topic. Yet another reason to upgrade to Lion.</p> <p>Encyclopedic pop-ups appear to work on any Mac with a multitouch trackpad and in all native Lion Cocoa apps – Safari, TextEdit, Pages, etc – it’s probably an OS-level feature that developers can include in their apps too.</p> <p><span id="more-17637"></span> <img src="http://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/three-finger-dictionary.jpg" alt="Three Fingered tap shows a dictionary in Mac OS X Lion" title="three-finger-dictionary" width="559" height="368" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-17639" /></p> <p>OS X Lion will be <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2010/10/20/mac-os-x-10-7-lion-release-date-summer-2011/">released</a> to the public next month. Don’t forget that you can <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2011/06/17/how-to-buy-mac-os-x-lion-at-discount/">save money when buying Lion</a> by using discounted iTunes Gift Cards too.</p> </div> <p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/GqAaH5iYmM6Qu7a5dKdZbEt1B1o/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/GqAaH5iYmM6Qu7a5dKdZbEt1B1o/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/> <a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/GqAaH5iYmM6Qu7a5dKdZbEt1B1o/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/GqAaH5iYmM6Qu7a5dKdZbEt1B1o/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=qQ36q-_C284:ujuOIoiSJ3M:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=qQ36q-_C284:ujuOIoiSJ3M:V_sGLiPBpWU"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=qQ36q-_C284:ujuOIoiSJ3M:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=qQ36q-_C284:ujuOIoiSJ3M:D7DqB2pKExk"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?i=qQ36q-_C284:ujuOIoiSJ3M:D7DqB2pKExk" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=qQ36q-_C284:ujuOIoiSJ3M:7Q72WNTAKBA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=7Q72WNTAKBA" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?a=qQ36q-_C284:ujuOIoiSJ3M:qj6IDK7rITs"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/osxdaily?d=qj6IDK7rITs" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/osxdaily/~4/qQ36q-_C284" height="1" width="1"/> View the full article
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