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Mac Forum / Applications / Mac Applications / March 2008American Heritage Dictionary--I miss it.
With Leopard, I can no longer run lagacy applications with OS9. Among those apps I miss is the American Heritage Pronouncing Dictionary. t had the capability of finding words from definitions and provided anagrams as well. While I would curse at it because it lacked certain capabilities that I would have liked. What is available now to meet my needs? Bill > With Leopard, I can no longer run lagacy applications with OS9. Among > those apps I miss is the American Heritage Pronouncing Dictionary. t had [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > Bill Agreed -- I liked the AHED dictionary very much also, both for capabilities and especially its interface, and miss it. There's a Merriam Webster online/CD, whose interface I actively dislike. And there's the built-in Apple/OS X Dictionary app, which is not at all "insanely great" -- meaning its interface is nowhere near as nice as was IHED, but it's not too bad. If you stick it in the Dock, you can open it quickly for quick lookups; I think there are some other interface tricks for getting at it. > And there's the built-in Apple/OS X Dictionary app, which is not at all > "insanely great" -- meaning its interface is nowhere near as nice as was > IHED, but it's not too bad. If you stick it in the Dock, you can open it > quickly for quick lookups; I think there are some other interface tricks for > getting at it. You can open it with a Dashboard widget.  SignatureJohn Varela Trade NEW lamps for OLD for email. > > And there's the built-in Apple/OS X Dictionary app, which is not at all > > "insanely great" -- meaning its interface is nowhere near as nice as was [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > You can open it with a Dashboard widget. There is a newer version of the American Heritage Dictionary that works with OS 10.5 available from Houghton Mifflin: http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/eref/buy.jsp The only downside is that it's PPC so it will run in Rosetta >>> And there's the built-in Apple/OS X Dictionary app, which is not at all >>> "insanely great" -- meaning its interface is nowhere near as nice as was [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > The only downside is that it's PPC so it will run in Rosetta I know there would be a good reason to have bought my PPC iMac 3 weeks before the intel machines came out. Vindicated! SignatureThank you and have a nice day. > > The only downside is that it's PPC so it will run in Rosetta > > I know there would be a good reason to have bought my PPC iMac 3 weeks > before the intel machines came out. Vindicated! That simply means it's not as fast on an Intel Mac as it would be if it were a Universal app. Signature<http://designsbymike.net/shop/mac.cgi> Mac and geek T-shirts & gifts <http://designsbymike.net/election.shtml> Election 2008 goods. <http://designsbymike.net/shop/prius.cgi> Prius shirts/bumper stickers <http://designsbymike.net/shop/greet.cgi> Holiday cards with attitude > > There is a newer version of the American Heritage Dictionary that works > > with OS 10.5 available from Houghton Mifflin: [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > I know there would be a good reason to have bought my PPC iMac 3 weeks > before the intel machines came out. Vindicated! I've not kept up with the intricacies of "Rosetta". As a practical matter, does the above mean that this newer version of the AHED dictionary will in fact "just run" in 10.5 on an Intel machine, with some invisible emulator invoked internally? -- Or is more than that required? And is the implication that it _won't_ run on a MacBook under 10.4? [And as an OT note, my impression is that Mathematica runs _much_ faster on my new MacBook than it did on my previous iBook.] > I've not kept up with the intricacies of "Rosetta". Well, there are no intricacies to keep up with. > As a practical matter, does the above mean that this newer version of the > AHED dictionary will in fact "just run" in 10.5 on an Intel machine, with > some invisible emulator invoked internally? -- Or is more than that > required? > > And is the implication that it _won't_ run on a MacBook under 10.4? A MacBook won't boot 10.4 at all. No Intel Mac will boot anything prior to 10.4.5 (or is that 10.4.6?). Anyway, I can't speak to the previous poster's implication, but your inference is wrong. All Intel Macs running Tiger or Leopard can run most all PPC software via Rosetta. And, yes, the PPC software does "just run." It is _not_ analogous to running Classic apps in Mac OS X prior to Leopard. > [And as an OT note, my impression is that Mathematica runs _much_ faster > on my new MacBook than it did on my previous iBook.] That's really not relevant to gtr's situation, since he's talking about the last G5 iMac model vs the first Intel model. You're talking about a much bigger jump in processor speed. Signature<http://designsbymike.net/shop/mac.cgi> Mac and geek T-shirts & gifts <http://designsbymike.net/election.shtml> Election 2008 goods. <http://designsbymike.net/shop/prius.cgi> Prius shirts/bumper stickers <http://designsbymike.net/shop/greet.cgi> Holiday cards with attitude > > As a practical matter, does the above mean that this newer version of the > > AHED dictionary will in fact "just run" in 10.5 on an Intel machine, with [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > A MacBook won't boot 10.4 at all. No Intel Mac will boot anything prior > to 10.4.5 (or is that 10.4.6?). (In this case, I think AES was referring to "10.4" in the generic sense of "Tiger", not that specific version.) The developer preview model came with 10.4.2 or 10.4.3, but nobody should have one of those any more so it is a moot point now. The earliest publically available Intel Mac models came with 10.4.4. SignatureDavid Empson dempson@actrix.gen.nz > I've not kept up with the intricacies of "Rosetta". As a practical > matter, does the above mean that this newer version of the AHED > dictionary will in fact "just run" in 10.5 on an Intel machine, with > some invisible emulator invoked internally? Correct. In the overwhelming majority of cases, you won't know that Rosetta is there. -j SignatureJeffrey Goldberg http://www.goldmark.org/jeff/ I rarely read top-posted, over-quoting or HTML postings. http://improve-usenet.org/ > I've not kept up with the intricacies of "Rosetta". As a practical > matter, does the above mean that this newer version of the AHED > dictionary will in fact "just run" in 10.5 on an Intel machine, with > some invisible emulator invoked internally? Yes. SignatureBart: This is the worst day of my life. Homer: This is the worst day of your life SO FAR. > And there's the built-in Apple/OS X Dictionary app, which is not at all > "insanely great" -- meaning its interface is nowhere near as nice as was > IHED, but it's not too bad. The interface is not that great, but the dictionary itself is top-notch, and I love the inclusion of wikipedia. > If you stick it in the Dock, you can open > it quickly for quick lookups; I think there are some other interface > tricks for getting at it. rclick => Look Up in Dictionary is good. Also, Alex does a decent job of pronouncing most words, just set a key sequence to 'speak selected text' and it works very nicely (I use ^-O-C 's' for by shortcut. I also use Alex a lot to read things (I have his speed one notch below max) before I send them, as it's a great way to find typos that are not misspellings. SignatureBart: This is the worst day of my life. Homer: This is the worst day of your life SO FAR. [snip] > Also, Alex does a decent job of pronouncing most words, just set a key > sequence to 'speak selected text' and it works very nicely (I use ^-O-C > 's' for by shortcut. > I also use Alex a lot to read things (I have his speed one notch below > max) before I send them, as it's a great way to find typos that are not > misspellings. Speaking of Alex, he has a nice voice alright, but he takes up a LOT of disk space. There's no reason I can't delete him, right? SignaturePosted via a free Usenet account from http://www.teranews.com > [snip] > [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > Speaking of Alex, he has a nice voice alright, but he takes up a LOT of > disk space. There's no reason I can't delete him, right? Well, for certain values of 'a lot' He take up about 650MB, IIRC. So that's 0.02% of my hard drive space and less than 1% of a $100 500GB drive. Put another way, Alex fits on a single recordable CD, with a tad of room left over. Backing up just my boot drive would take well over 400 CDs. I would never recommend deleting or modifying in anyway anything inside /System. SignatureBart: This is the worst day of my life. Homer: This is the worst day of your life SO FAR. > > With Leopard, I can no longer run lagacy applications with OS9. Among > > those apps I miss is the American Heritage Pronouncing Dictionary. t had [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > it quickly for quick lookups; I think there are some other interface > tricks for getting at it. One thing I like about Apple's dictionary is that in many applications, you don't even need to open the dictionary app to look up words, you just control-click on the word and look up the definition from a contextual pop-up menu, and the Dictionary app will open at that point and display the meaning of the word for you if the word exists in the dictionary. > One thing I like about Apple's dictionary is that in many applications, > you don't even need to open the dictionary app to look up words, you > just control-click on the word and look up the definition from a > contextual pop-up menu, and the Dictionary app will open at that point > and display the meaning of the word for you if the word exists in the > dictionary. I was a big fan of AHED, but I must say that I've used Dictionary since it became available, and after a short acclimation, I think it's great. SignatureThank you and have a nice day. > > One thing I like about Apple's dictionary is that in many applications, > > you don't even need to open the dictionary app to look up words, you > > just control-click on the word and look up the definition from a > > contextual pop-up menu, and the Dictionary app will open at that point > > and display the meaning of the word for you if the word exists in the > > dictionary. In many applications you can just mouse over a word and press the keystroke you've defined in the Keyboard prefpane. A small window pops up with the definition, and a button to go to the main dictionary window. > I was a big fan of AHED, but I must say that I've used Dictionary since > it became available, and after a short acclimation, I think it's great. I like AHED too, and still use it on occasion in classic, but only when I want a second opinion, since Dictionary is IMO well done. SignatureJohn Rethorst jrethorst at post dot com > With Leopard, I can no longer run lagacy applications with OS9. Among > those apps I miss is the American Heritage Pronouncing Dictionary. t had > the capability of finding words from definitions and provided anagrams > as well. Strong second to that. Just one more reason to not move to 10.5x. SignatureWith or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion. Steven Weinberg > With Leopard, I can no longer run lagacy applications with OS9. Among > those apps I miss is the American Heritage Pronouncing Dictionary. t had [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > > What is available now to meet my needs? You can run any legacy app with Leopard or on an Intel machine, using an emulator called SheepShaver. Fast, stable and free. See http://groups.yahoo.com/group/wordperfectmac for a download. SignatureJohn Rethorst jrethorst at post dot com > What is available now to meet my needs? www.m-w.com SignatureBart: This is the worst day of my life. Homer: This is the worst day of your life SO FAR. |
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