Post #313,932
9/11/09 8:14:31 PM
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dictionary.app - Snow Leopard
In most modern OS X applications (not in the Adobe "Creative Suite," irritatingly) a user may highlight a word and then right-click it to launch the "Dictionary" application. Since switching over to SL I find that this operation, which used to occur almost instantaneously, now requires several seconds. Anyone else encountered this?
Sigh. I should probably fire up the creaky old PPC 8100 at work, which hasn't been turned on yet this year, just to re-acquaint myself with the kind of OS-level lags I used to take for granted—and I can remember how blazingly responsive those 80 MHz seemed to me after five years on a 16 MHz Mac II.
cordially,
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Post #313,942
9/11/09 9:07:41 PM
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Re: dictionary.app - Snow Leopard
not here, cranks right up.
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Post #313,954
9/12/09 3:16:13 AM
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Quick as knife here.
iMac6,1 (2.33GHz C2D, 3GB RAM)
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Post #313,977
9/12/09 4:21:28 PM
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So you're not seeing the 10-15 second spinning top in Safari
at random times? The machine is in lala land at that time. The spinning top is the mouse pointer at that time and can be moved, but mouse clicks are ignored. WTF?
Alex
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Post #313,982
9/12/09 6:44:50 PM
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Safari? whats that :-)
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Post #313,983
9/12/09 6:57:04 PM
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Its a trip through "Darkest" Africa...
Or New York's Burroughs or East LA.
Just sayin'.
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Post #314,002
9/13/09 5:59:35 AM
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It's like Firefox, only faster.
I binned Firefox on OS X a long time ago, due to its extreme shittiness.
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Post #314,001
9/13/09 5:58:09 AM
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Nope.
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Post #313,978
9/12/09 4:47:43 PM
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Drive gone to sleep?
I've noticed it on occasion - when it happens I hear a drive spinning up.
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Post #314,006
9/13/09 1:30:51 PM
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Re: Drive gone to sleep?
Yes, that does seem to accompany the phenomenon. I should see whether the system-level preference defaults have changed under SL. Perhaps it's precisely because the Dictionary.app used to be so snappy when summoned that I've particularly noticed the delay.
cordially,
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Post #314,166
9/17/09 8:08:53 AM
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This may not help, however...
A shortcut to getting dictionary definitions, which might help said definition pop up faster, is to put the mouse cursor over the word in question, and press Ctrl-Command-D. Usually works close-enough-to-instantaneous for me.
Ooh - just realised that if you keep Ctrl and Command held down, you can move the cursor around the screen and it'll try to define every word it comes across. Not sure how useful that is, but it's looks kinda cool :)
They said I was gullible ... and I believed them
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Post #314,176
9/17/09 10:54:46 AM
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Way cool!
just tried it and the pop-up was immediate.
I then did the right-click dictionary and I had to wait for the drive to spin up.
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Post #314,939
10/1/09 3:34:59 PM
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Yowza!
That is...so...fucking...cool. Between this and missing the return of Key Caps for the past two-and-a-half OS X iterations, I have clearly not been spending enough time staying current with Mac UI goodies.
cordially,
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