Mac 101: Drag-n-Drop your way to a new Mail message

That is awesome, I didn't know that. I'm not sure how useful it will be for me, but it is still awesome!

Too bad not all Mac software has that "Apple intuitiveness." As you can see in the above comment that I posted not too long ago on another topic, 1Password seemed to remember my last post and inserted it automatically when I was just trying to login to TUAW.

All I really wanted to say was, Nice tip :)

And if Apple closes the iTunes store, I'll stop buying music. Well, okay, maybe not. Or how about this possibility: Apple steps up their efforts to market themselves as a music label.

...except Mail crashes when I do this.

OSX Mail is a realy great piece of software, I've always liked it especially because of things like this.

Did you know you can also send whole websites, or parts of it? Try selecting this webpage (cmnd-a) copying it (cmnd-c) and pasting it in a new message (this is leopard-only I believe)... Or select a YouTube movie (click and drag your mouse from somewhere above a movie to somewhere below it) and copy-paste it in a new message, you've got a working youtube-player in your mail message!

One other thing i always liked about mail is the ability to send a folder right out of the Finder! Just drag a folder to the mail dock-icon, and you can send the folder so that the structure inside will remain the same!

Don't know how these things will be rendered by other mail-apps than OSX Mail, but it sure is nice. Just another thing that makes me love Apple products!

or you could just select the text, go to the Application Menu (to the right of the apple menu), select Services > Mail > Send Selection


my favorite for sending URLs is Shift-Command-I (that's the letter i)

You may need the latest update of Leopard, at least for files. There was a bug in the last 5 or 6 versions (including late Tigers, I think) that made Mail hang when you tried to drag a file to the Mail dock icon. The latest version finally fixes the issue.

Great tip, thanks!

Mail.app is a great piece of software.

This also works for images, files, and so on. Any thing you can attach to an email can be be drag and dropped on to the icon.