Nearly 20 years old now, the Dictionary app seems to be slowly slipping into oblivion. It still provides access to reputable sources and Wikipedia.
Category Archive: Language
A collection of zero-width characters, including the joiner used to create compound emoji, and others to control ligatures and line breaks.
What happens when you press and hold the e key? Does it repeat, or do you see a window offering accented versions? Do you know you can change that?
Hippolyta murdered for her girdle, Penthesilea killed by Achilles at Troy, Hippolyta abandoned by Theseus for Phaedra, and Thalestris impregnated by Alexander the Great.
If macOS doesn’t include your preferred keyboard layout, here’s how to create your own, and put it to work.
Full details on which languages and apps are supported, and an explanation of how it works its magic.
Using Live Text to recognise kanji characters in a screenshot, then translating them from Japanese to English. Does it work?
Parse text into parts of speech, or simply recognise their language or script. Analyse the frequency of words in a text, with an option to do this by word roots (lemmas).
What do paintings look like to someone with deuteranopia? Why do great paintings ‘draw’ the eye? Do we see the colours the artist intended? And how many words for blue are in Ukrainian?
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