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Leopard 中文字典

05 Dec 2007 8 Comments

by 無聊達人 in Mac Tags: Apple, Chinese, Dictionary, Leopard, Mac, Mac OS X

OS X Leopard 其中一項強大又鮮為人留意的功能便是Dictionary。特別之處在於它留下了一條小小的尾巴，用戶其實可以自由增減字典集，Leopard本身預載但沒有被啟動的日文字典便是一個好例子。

今天收到一篇麥課一班論壇裡提到怎樣為Leopard增加字典集的留言。於是我便照著以同一方法「翻譯」了繁體中文的《牛津現代英語雙解詞典》和《２１世紀英漢漢英雙向詞典》，大家只要下載並解壓到 ~/Library/Dictionaries 便大功告成！如果嫌不夠還可以到這裡下載更多字典，再依照麥課班的方法自己再轉換。

解壓到 ~/Library/Dictionaries

Dictionary變強了!

Ctrl + Command + D 沒問題

Spotlight 也一樣可以

Dictionary Widget

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Blue Screen Cover Flow

30 Oct 2007 Leave a Comment

by 無聊達人 in Mac Tags: Leopard, Mac, Mac OS X

Steve has Bill in mind

29 Oct 2007 Leave a Comment

by 無聊達人 in Mac Tags: Leopard, Mac, Mac OS X

There are so many funny things in Leopard if you pay attention. One I found is the new network sharing appears in Finder. Did you notice the machine icon? I’m not sure that guy is using PC or just my Mac can’t make connection with it. But you can see the familiar blue screen! I wonder it’s Steve Jobs playing this dirty joke with Bill Gates!

Oh, come on! Failed to connect.

Bingo! It’s Mac, my friend? May be Linux.

My Leopard Review

27 Oct 2007 Leave a Comment

by 無聊達人 in Mac Tags: Leopard, Mac, Mac OS X

Not sure if you got your copy of Leopard already. Luckily I’ve got it and had it installed on 26th morning. I think all media and magazines have already covered big changes. Now let me share little things that worth to mention. I spent whole night yesterday to fresh install every applications. So far, I didn’t get many compatibility problem except these applications.

PhotoRescue – can’t open successfully
FanControl – fan speed will become negative! so it can’t operate at all.

I guess some old plugin for Safari, like SafariStand may not work too. And some system utility applications like Cocktail I didn’t try. Also, UI customization programs like ShapeShifter and UNO, I didn’t try also. Aperture which is my big concern, it has update (1.5.6) for Leopard, so remember to run System Update after installing it. I’m running Time Machine when typing this. Few points I want to highlight.

It’s not bootable, Time Machine would only store your file diff in a special folder. So don’t worry it would format your hard disk. The value of of hard drive clone software like SuperDuper is still preserved.
I think it’s common sense that you need to prepare your storage more than your machine space.
It doesn’t have detail opinion. It would run hourly, keep daily backup for a month and weekly backup until your drive is full.
It has opinion that you can skip to backup drive or folder.

Terminal becomes more fancy now, you can even select or specify color theme for your terminal. I think it must be wonderful for many geeks!Except owner and permission you may notify ACL attribute attached to files from terminal.

Bluetooth, Network in Preference share common but new user interface. Leopard has built-in VNC server and client, they called it Screen Share. Stack is cool!! It has “Downloads” folder created in every user account, and by default the Downloads folder will be aliased in your Dock as Stack. It’s so convenient to find what you just downloaded. Other applications like Mail, Preview have huge changes! Finder, you may think it’s a new application. There’re so many things to mention. :)