Transform "Dictionary" of OS X and iOS 7 in the real translator

Have you ever thought about the fact that Americans have never engaged in translation? I'm not talking about diplomacy and the Mexican border guards, but the ordinary American child, chubby fingers that do not know the shortcut keys "⌘Probel". He does not need «Punto Switcher», does not need «Lingvo» and even «Google Translate». But you live in Russia, and you can only dream of Cupertino.

The vast expanses of the Internet, you plow with a dictionary under his arm, and homework in English transformed into a never-ending hell with per-second switching between programs. Today once again we will refund the joy in your life, will save on courses in English language and improve karma. Because now you need only touch a word to translate it.

Apple so much concerned about their American buyers, even came up with a program for them, "Dictionary", which shows the a pop-up definition of the word tapas with him three fingers (in iOS triple tap is replaced by the selected word and pressing the buttons "Writing determination ").

I do not know where it came from such a need in an explanatory dictionary, but, on the other hand, expect miracles from people who know only their native language is not necessary. Triple tap - this is grace in its purest form, grace at their fingertips, and it is a pity to waste it on things like questionable definition of epplovskogo dictionary. Let's use it for something really useful. Today we fool around a little bit and teach our Mac / iPhone / iPad transfer using Lingvo dictionaries. Yes, we know that Lingvo is worth big money, but who said that all that is beautiful is sold for money in the world?

How to make in OS X

First of all, we need to get ourselves dictionaries. Search in Google should be available on request "Lingvo Dictionaries 12 for Mac OS X 10.4+». Download, unpack, nothing complicated. Dictionaries should be a file with the extension «.dictionary» icon and white brick «Lego». Then open the Finder and go to Macinstosh HD / Library / Dictionaries, and throws in a folder «Dictionaries» all downloaded dictionaries. Done, we crammed into a miracle-program "Dictionary" dictionary Lingvo. Now open the program, go to settings and tick the fact that we need.

I recommend keeping all the downloaded dictionaries because you never know where you find yourself in the next second: an article in Wikipedia about Global Orgasm or a collection of the most stupid quotes George Bush. Everything now translate any word is reduced to restore it with the mouse and the triple tapas on the touchpad. luster:

How to make in iOS 7

Here, everything is a bit more complicated, but the idea remains the same. a mobile closure system does not allow to be picked in the guts of the "Dictionary", so we will have to download another program that will act as a repository for Lingvo dictionaries. She will be the «Dictionary. Appender », which is free and is in the App Store.

After downloading the software, connect the iOS-device to the computer, open iTunes and perform the following steps:

1. We go to the menu of the device.

2. Open the "Programs"

3. Scroll down to the "Common Files", the program list will be our «Dictionary.appender»:

4. Click on it and drag all your dictionaries us on the right side of the screen, in the "Documents Dict. Appender »(you can drag and drop files to the same that we used when installing the dictionaries in OS X).

5. Then, without disconnecting the device from the computer, Opening in it (iOS-device) downloaded previously «Dictionary.appender» and scroll down until we find our dictionary:

6. Hit it and install:

There is one bad moment: the program allows you to install only one free dictionary and when you try to put the second gives here is a nasty message:

Even if you will fill in it a bunch of dictionaries, like we did on OS X, it is still using it will allow only one. Therefore, I recommend to install a universal dictionary, a file which is called «LVLingvo UniversalEnRu.dictionary». Now check:

Give the "definition" (Ha ha ha)

That's all. If after this article servers English-language Wikipedia will fall from the influx of Russians, burning thirst for knowledge, we have nothing to do with it, and you know.