One of the most underrated, built in every Mac OS X is Apple’s own Dictionary. It is by far the most hidden yet integrated, small and powerful app money can’t buy, a cloud of wisdom, an extendible eco-system of its own.
Little known that one can simply press a key combo to search for definitions even without launching the app, tiger/leopard users can just spotlight any word and get the meanings in seconds, fire up dashboard and the dictionary widget will be at your service, type & bingo!
But there’s a problem; Basically only English-Japanese is available out of the box.
Worry not, as you can download additional dictionaries from apple.com to extend your dictionary app. Furthermore, there’s a freeware app called DictUnifier, that allows one to convert & install any dictionary.
There’s a group of nice guys whose sole job is to maintain free & open dictionary, they form their own database standard where many of the dictionaries can be downloaded free from stardict.org. DictUnifier allows one to convert & install—as an addon—any startdict standard database files, as a result, you can have a smarter & comprehensive definition data without spending a dime, just a little time of yours.
Links:
Apple.com (search for ‘dictionary’)
http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/
Dictionaries:
www.stardict.org
Bahasa Indonesia:
http://abu0hasan.blogspot.com/2008/03/kamus-bahasa-indonesia-inggris-di-apple.html
DictUnifier:
http://osx.iusethis.com/app/dictunifier
