Application Services

Some Mac OS X applications provide services that enable you to use content from one application with another. The content can include text, graphics, or movies. For example, the services for Grab are available from within TextEdit (Figure 95)—this means you can use Grab to take a screen shot and have the image appear in your Text Edit document.

Figure 95. The services for Grab are supported by TextEdit, enabling you to quickly and easily insert screen shots in a TextEdit document.

Although these application services have been available in Mac OS X since its original release, not all applications support it. As a result, ...

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