Jun 24
You can drag text onto the Safari dock icon to perform a quick google search
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Lion / Leopard Tricks Tips and Tools
Tips and Tricks for Apple's Lion and Leopard operating system
June 24th, 2008 at 10:06 am
I can’t drag text….?
June 24th, 2008 at 12:16 pm
Hey that work very well.
@ Brenner: Select a word or a sentence in a text, then drag it on the Safari icon in the Dock.
June 24th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
You can do that on Firefox 3 as well.
June 24th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
Nice!
June 24th, 2008 at 7:01 pm
sometimes the simplest tricks are the most useful
June 25th, 2008 at 4:57 am
hey, cool and amezing!
June 26th, 2008 at 2:09 am
Good idea, but an even simpler way would be to highlight your word or phrase in the text, hold in the control key and click on it. The box that opens, choose Search in Google. Works with a right click as well if you have a mighty mouse (or other) and the right click is set as a secondary button.
June 26th, 2008 at 4:15 pm
There is also a shortcut for this.
Highlight the word or phrase and push:
Command+Shift+L
It opens a new browser window with Google search
June 28th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
The keyboard shortcut is useful.
Command+Shift+L
June 30th, 2008 at 2:07 am
Dragging the highlighted word to the dock, doesn’t work on my Mac (and the Leopard software is up-to-date).
However, highlighting the work and then hitting command-shift-L works fine and seems much more efficient than dragging a highlighted word all the way to the dock.