Call it Pixel.

Is Apple developing an image editing application to rival Photoshop? There are a number of reasons it should:

Good Demand   Photoshop is used by most professionals who work with pixels—photographers, graphic artists, web designers—as well as plenty of non-professionals who edit digital images. That’s a lot of people these days.

Good Fit  Apple’s Pro applications already serve creative professionals of digital video, photography, music, and sound editing. What’s missing? Pixel- and vector-based image editing.

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If you’re already using Apple’s Dictionary to look up words in place within an application, you’ll find a number of nice surprises waiting for you in Leopard, where Dictionary includes more definitions, more dictionaries, more languages, and is even more tightly integrated into Mac OS X. It’s now extensible, too.

So, what’s new in Leopard’s Dictionary?

Wikipedia  Dictionary now displays live Wikipedia articles if you have an Internet connection. Articles feature the same text and graphics that you see when viewing Wikipedia in your browser, but they look more dignified in Dictionary, which displays them in a large-point serif font. You can choose from among a long list of languages for Wikipedia, too.
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