Liquid 4.3 4.0/4.0 free, but $3 in-app purchase unlocks all features; Liquid OS X; liquid.info
Think about how much time you spend dealing with chunks of text, big and small: search queries you type into Google, words and phrases you look up on Wikipedia, and text blocks you copy from one app and paste into another. Liquid (go.macworld.com/liquid) makes performing those tasks a whole lot easier.
Launch Liquid, and it sits quietly in the menu bar until you need it. Select a bit of text in an app, on a website, or wherever, and press Liquid’s keyboard shortcut. Up pops a window containing your selected text along with six menu options: Search, Reference, Convert, Translate, Copy, and Share, each with a letter or number next to it (S, R, C,…