Drag and drop Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

TUAW's Daily iOS App: Pinch 2 HD

by Mike Schramm (May 17th, 2011)

You may remember Pinch, a drag-and-drop platformer that we featured a while back. The idea was that you dragged colored orbs around a map, navigating them through obstacles of various kinds and even combining or tearing them apart in order to line them up correctly. That game was well received, ...

Beta Beat: Droplr adds to the quick-share repertoire

by Aron Trimble (Dec 14th, 2009)

One of my favorite features in OS X is the ability to drag pretty much anything, drop it on pretty much anything else, and have the item be contextually useful in some other application. So pervasive is this gesture that we even waxed romantically about it some time ago. An example of this would be ...

Mac 101: Quickly change directory in save/open dialogs

by Cory Bohon (Dec 24th, 2008)

More Mac 101, our series of tips for new Mac OS X users. Have you ever tried to open or save a file, and you want to quickly change from the directory (folder) you are browsing to another directory? It might be simpler than you think, and it doesn't require you to go searching for the directory ...

An easy way to import NetNewsWire feeds into Safari

by David Chartier (Jul 30th, 2007)

Well color me surprised - after trying a few convoluted methods for exporting some of my NetNewsWire feeds in a format that Safari could import (as RSS, not HTML links to real sites), I finally realized that either Brent Simmons and/or Apple have already done some of the heavy lifting. If you ...

Terminal Tip: Interactive Command-line File Encryption

by Erica Sadun (May 22nd, 2007)

In OS X, you can always toss a file onto the command line instead of laboriously typing out a complete path name because Terminal supports drag and drop. Over at Murphymac, Murphy has posted a video showing you how to create a shell script using DES3 encryption to protect your files. It takes ...

The Little Things: Drag and drop

by David Chartier (Apr 15th, 2007)

TUAW reader Chris Roberts was right: it's been far too long since our last post in The Little Things series, so I figured I'd pick up the slack with a really handy feature of Mac OS X: drag and drop. Sure, most OSes these days can drag and drop at least some things, but Apple has gone to great ...

Desky: drag and drop to change desktop wallpaper

by David Chartier (Feb 21st, 2007)

A while ago we found an Automator action that lets you drag and drop images to set them as your desktop background. No fuss, and no clunky System Preferences pane. I didn't notice it at the time, but TUAW reader Tice commented with a link to his little app, named Desky, that can do the same thing ...

Where's your Dock?

by Scott McNulty (Dec 7th, 2006)

Apple's most recent Pro Tip teaches us how to move the Dock with a simple click and drag (here's the abbreviated version: shift click on the Dock dividing line and then drag the Dock to the left, right, or back to the bottom of the screen). I'm not sure how that qualifies as a Pro Tip, but I am ...

Dragster - drag and drop file management and transfer with a twist

by David Chartier (Nov 6th, 2006)

Ambrosia Software, those crazy kids with the Snapz Pro X and WireTap Pro, have unveiled the latest trick up their sleeve in the form of Dragster, an interesting approach to drag and drop file management and transfer. This utility, as you can see, lives in the Dock and is more or less like a drag and ...

Drag and drop calendar items from Entourage to iCal

by David Chartier (Apr 10th, 2006)

I don't know how long this secret affair has been going on, but apparently MacOSXHints caught a calendar event from Entourage sneaking over to iCal! Mmhm, that's right. Allegedly, it's possible to drag and drop *gasp!* a calendar event from Entourage right onto the iCal window. While it sounds like ...

TUAW Tip: Drag and drop with Exposé

by Dan Pourhadi (Feb 1st, 2006)

Drag and drop is one of the many wonders of graphical user interfaces, exponentially increasing productivity with an intuitive, common-sense approach that leaves you with a reaffirmed belief in the unquestionable brilliance of mankind. Exposé takes that to a whole new level: You can actually ...

Enable drag-and-drop desktop printing

by David Chartier (Jan 17th, 2006)

Since I don't actually own a printer, I find it ironic that I'm posting a tip about printing more efficiently on a Mac. Regardless, this is a handy little tip right out of Apple's Pro site for all you chronic printers out there: if you print a lot of documents throughout the day without necessarily ...

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