Apple Pro Mac OS X Tip of the Week--Drop Text on the Dock Icon

Text can be highlighted and dragged and dropped on the icon of an application in the Dock for fast action. For example, doing so on Mail creates a new message with the text copied to it, same with TextEdit and doing so with Safari creates a Google search on the text. This works with any application that is a native (Cocoa) Mac OS X application.

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