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<h6>Mac OS X Services in Snow Leopard</h6>
<p><p>Mac OS X Services let one application supply its powers to another; for example, a Grab service helps TextEdit paste a screenshot into a document. Most users either don't know that Services exist, because they're in an obscure hierarchical menu (ApplicationName > Services), or they mostly don't use them because there are so many of them.</p><p>Snow Leopard makes it easier for the uninitiated to utilize this feature; only services appropriate to the current context appear. And in addition to the hierarchical menu, services are discoverable as custom contextual menu items - Control-click in a TextEdit document to access the Grab service, for instance.</p><p>In addition, the revamped Keyboard preference pane lets you manage services for the first time ever. You can enable and disable them, and even change their keyboard shortcuts.</p></p>
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<a href="/article/9423"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9423', 'show')">16 Superlative Macworld Expo SF 2008 Products</a></h4>
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<a href="/article/9402"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9402', 'show')">Time Capsule Bundles AirPort Base Station and Backup Disk</a></h4>
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<a href="/article/9403"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9403', 'show')">iTunes Movie Rentals and Apple TV, Take 2</a></h4>
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<a href="/article/9404"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9404', 'show')">iPhone and iPod touch Become Self-Aware</a></h4>
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<a href="/article/9405"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9405', 'show')">MacBook Air Introduced as World's Thinnest Notebook</a></h4>
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<a href="/article/9352"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9352', 'show')">2007 TidBITS Gift Guide</a></h4>
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<div class="featured_meta"><a href="/index.cgi?tbcat=16" class="category">Just for Fun</a> | by <a href="/author/TidBITS%20Staff">TidBITS Staff</a> | 10 Dec 2007</div></div>
<a href="/article/9353"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9353', 'show')">Bonus Stories for 10-Dec-07</a></h4>
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<a href="/article/9323"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9323', 'show')">No TidBITS Issue on 26-Nov-07</a></h4>
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<a href="/article/9214"onMouseOver="blurb_slide('9214', 'show')">Staff Roundtable: Apple Should Do No Harm to iPhones</a></h4>
<div class="article_preview" id="blurb_9214" style="display:none"><div id="popup_inner_9214">Apple has come under fire for "bricking" unlocked iPhones - rendering them unusable - with the latest iPhone update. Is that reasonable behavior? Our editors universally think not, and they aren't wild about the way Apple has made it difficult to develop native applications for the iPhone either.</div><!-- blurb inner --></div><!-- blurb outer -->