Search the web from the Dock

Sun, 11 May 2008

If you are working on something (outside of your browser) and you need to get more information, the first thing that comes to mind is to search the web. Mac OS X has a very nice feature to search from the Dock, using Safari.

Let’s imagine you are writing a document about Napoleon, and you just can’t remember where he was born, so you want to ‘Google it’. Highlight the word ‘Napoleon’ and drag it onto Safari icon in Doc. Safari will open, search Google and return the results nearly instantly.

napoleon

Dropping the text onto the Dock also works nicely with Apple Mail. Select any text, drag and drop it onto the Mail icon and a new email will be composed, already containing that text. Just add the recipient email address and the subject and send.

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5 Responses to “Search the web from the Dock”

  1. Lydia said: Sun, 11 May 2008 at 12:52

    This is soooo cool!

  2. nareharo said: Mon, 12 May 2008 at 03:04

    Hi, this is so cool, I decided to make a small video on this and put it on my blog. I also linked to your website. Keep it up this way :-)
    Thanks a lot for this tip.

  3. maxintech said: Mon, 12 May 2008 at 03:09

    Very cool tip!

  4. Leon said: Thu, 15 May 2008 at 19:09

    I love mac! It keep surprising you with these nifty little tricks…

  5. Lisa Melnick said: Sat, 17 May 2008 at 04:46

    thanks for the very useful tip.

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