Emailing a link!
The way this tip work might be similar to the one I posted yesterday, but it is so neat. I know there are features in Safari's menus and a keyboard shortcut to do so, but it is so great to do it this way. To email a url that is loaded in Safari with Mail, you simply have to drag the small icon at the left of the url and while holding on to it, pressing "Command-Tab" and dropping the url on Mail. Mail will automatically create a new email with the url.
posted by Frederic Tremblay at
6/16/2008
9 Comments:
Hmmmm. I couldn't get this to work at first, then realized I had to continue to hold command-tab until after I had dropped the link on the mail icon.
Cool tip.
Great Tip! Thanks for taking the time to make them.
You can also drag that small icon to your desktop to create a link; or drag it to the body (or subject) of a message being composed in Gmail, for instance; or even drag it to a word processor, to have the url written down.
It works with firefox as well. You just drag the icon to the left of the url to Mail and it automatically opens a new message box with the url already in the message. No need for Command+Tab.
No need for Command+Tab in Safari either. Just drop the URL icon on the Mail icon and the link is instantly put in a new mail message that is launched.
PS This technique also works for a cd/dvd filled with photos that is inserted in the optical drive. No need to open either the disk or iPhoto. Just drag the desktop cd/dvd icon to the iPhoto icon on the dock and your photos are instantly loaded into iPhoto.
yah you don't need the command-tab
i never have. you can drag tae little icon anywhere you can type. many times it gives it a shorter "nickname" type thing. very convenient.
all you need is " + i" and that will do it even faster (I hate using the mouse)
I'm with Bryan, but I use Shift+⌘+i in Safari
(⌘=command)
opens mail and puts the link in a new message
I believe Bryan's shortcut mails the whole page
I have also dragged the link to the right side of the dock to create a quick link to a site.
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