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Four great Mac OS X services you don’t know about

Wednesday, January 11, 2012 · 4:50 pm · 12 Comments

“Once you know the basics about services, OS X’s underused shortcuts, your next question is inevitably: Where can I find more? You can add — and even create — your own services,” Kirk McElhearn reports for Macworld.com.

Here are four of the best:
1. DevonTechnologies’ WordService
2. DevonTechnologies’ CalcService
3. MacAutomation’s Finder services
4. Your own custom-made services

Read more in the full article here.

Categories: News

Tags: Lion, Mac OS X, Mac OS X Lion, OS X Services

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12 Comments

Wun Dum Gai

Wednesday, January 11, 2012 - 5:45 pm · Reply

I didn’t even know about these services!
Romeodawg

Wednesday, January 11, 2012 - 6:36 pm · Reply

MDN, was this really an article that needed posting?
- Cubert
  
  Wednesday, January 11, 2012 - 7:52 pm · Reply
  
  WTF are you talking about?!?!?! Of course this is something they should post! Looking it over, it seems to be very useful relevant information that, my guess, very few people even know about.
  - qka
    
    Sunday, January 15, 2012 - 10:19 pm · Reply
    
    I’ve been a Mac user since ’84, and all I knew about services was that the related to apps I had installed. Didn’t know there were services that you could add from other sources that weren’t apps.
    
    So yeah, this was a useful posting.
coolfactor

Wednesday, January 11, 2012 - 7:45 pm · Reply

We need a “Like” button next to comments.
- pablorph
  
  Wednesday, January 11, 2012 - 9:35 pm · Reply
  
  Like.
  - MacRaven
    
    Thursday, January 12, 2012 - 9:45 am · Reply
    
    ^Like
- qka
  
  Sunday, January 15, 2012 - 10:17 pm · Reply
  
  Also a “Flag” button
ken1w

Wednesday, January 11, 2012 - 10:53 pm · Reply

I never use them, so I forget they exist. This is a good reminder…

I just highlighted some text in Safari, just to see what related Services are already installed. There’s one called “Add to iTunes as a Spoken Track.” Does that come pre-installed, because I don’t remember adding it? It’s very cool… highlight any text in any app, such as the text of a news article, and select that Services command. It uses Text-to-Speech to create an audio file from the selected text, ready to play in iTunes.
- janeshepard
  
  Thursday, January 12, 2012 - 1:34 am · Reply
  
  I’m going to start doing that with BLN’s comments, and donate them to iTunes U!
- Cubert
  
  Thursday, January 12, 2012 - 7:33 pm · Reply
  
  Yes, it is built into the OS.
The Hankster

Friday, January 13, 2012 - 6:33 pm · Reply

I’m looking for beer brewing and chip delivery services. Cold these be built in too?