Shorter oxford english dictionary bitt mac os x#

To work around this, be sure only click on the edge of the application or where no words appear in the main section of the window. If you click onto the main portion of the window (even when the OED application is not active), the app will interpret that click as a request to lookup the word which was clicked. If you are expecting to click into the main portion of the window, select some text, and copy it, then you are in for a surprise, because it will almost certainly not work as you expect. (Help can be accessed from within the application, which will open several exceedingly plain HTML files with absolutely no images or other frivolities which might guide you through the application.) There is no Edit menu with the usual Copy and Paste commands, which may prepare you for news that pasting into the application works strangely, but not nearly as strangely as copying out of the application. In fact, there are no menu items at all except Services (which don't work), Hide, and Quit. Not long after starting the app, I looked for preferences. Unfortunately, that is only the sad beginning to the 'user interface' of the OED on the Mac.

Have you ever seen an uglier icon? Have you ever seen an uglier icon for a $300 Mac application? If there was a way to emphasize the quotation marks around the word 'native' I would do so, because as I quickly learned, the OED puts the 'ugly' in 'butt ugly Windows port.' The image you see above is the application icon. The CD-ROM lists itself as 'version 4' but this is the first version to be 'native' on the Mac.

Shorter oxford english dictionary bitt mac os x#

(I should probably note that Mac OS X comes with the 'New Oxford American Dictionary' which is not the same thing as the OED, despite the similar sounding name.) You can disable notifications at any time in your settings menu.