The Share Button
In its never-ending efforts to bring the best of the iPad to the Mac, Apple has built the Share button (Figure 5-11) into many spots. It’s a quick, one-click way to send something (text, link, photo, video) to somebody else (by email, Twitter, Facebook, text message, AirDrop).
Figure 5-11. Top: Here’s how you might tweet a link to a page you find in Safari. Choose Twitter from the 
button; type a comment; click Send. Bottom: Here are some of the other share sheets you might encounter. Lower left: Posting a photo to Flickr. Lower right: Sending a file using AirDrop. Very bottom: Posting a photo to Facebook. Note the tiny pop-up menus. One lets you control who sees this post; the other specifies where it goes (which album, for example).
If you’ve seen an iPhone or iPad, then you’ve probably seen this Share icon: . On the Mac, this button, or a command that just says Share, pops up in all kinds of programs: the Finder’s shortcut menus. Quick Look panels. The Open File dialog box in Apple programs. OS X programs like Contacts, Notes, Preview, Safari, Photo Booth, TextEdit, iPhoto, and so on. Other companies can add it to their programs, too, or install new commands into the ...
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