In macOS, a Text Clipping is a selection of text that you've dragged from an application to another location on your Mac, where it becomes a unique kind of standalone file. The relatively little-known ...

In macOS, a Text Clipping is a selection of text that you've dragged from an application to another location on your Mac, where it becomes a unique kind of standalone file. The relatively little-known ...

Macs have supported text clippings for years. What are they? Why do you need them? How do you use them? Mac users have been able to create and use text clippings since the last century and Mac OS 9, ...

I ask [my Windows-using friends] how would they save a piece of text from the document they are viewing at the moment, for example a web page. Their answer is usually something like: "Oh easy. You ...

When you drag highlighted text to the desktop, you create a text clipping. And when you drag a URL favicon to the desktop, you create a .webloc file—a document that, when opened, launches the saved ...

Text/HTML editor BBEdit got upgraded to version 11 this week with a huge number of new features, improvements, and fixes. The highlights include improved syntax highlighting, an updated interface for ...

Ever been surfing the web and find a nice bit of text you want to save? You can highlight the text with your cursor, copy, and paste into an app like Text Edit or Notes, sure, but maybe you just want ...

If OS X applications are built with Apple's Core Text framework, then there are a number of text-handling shortcuts that may be used in these applications. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 ...

Most days, I focus on a single product in Mac Gems; today I’m going to cover a couple plugins for Mac OS X that offer simple but useful features. Granted, Hex Color Picker is accessible only in ...

The clipboard in OS X and other operating systems is exceptionally useful; however, it is limited in functionality. Despite this, there are other ways to quickly handle text that can be just as useful ...