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hi I'm Wilson Tang with sina com the mac operating system has had a little-known feature called services that can significantly speed up some common tasks in most applications on the MEK it appears under the application name in the menu bar now for some apps they're not coded to properly use services but the majority of apple's applications do so what can you do with services well plenty for starters ever run across an email just that hasn't been linked to and want to email that person just highlight the email address go to the application name then services then mail then select send to services will automatically open up mail and put the email address in the from field without you having to copy and paste when here text spoken by the max it built in voice synthesizer instead of launching universal access options just highlight the text go services and select speech then start speaking text all your base are belong to us need to grab a screenshot of your desktop select services then grab then screen it will automatically insert the screenshot into your document there are even some keyboard shortcuts for launching some Universal Services want to open up a sticky note hit command shift why when I search for some text in google hit command shift l need to find a piece of text in a document on your computer using spotlight hit command shift F there are dozens and dozens of built-in services in the mac OS but services is actually extendable some applications will automatically install their own services to this menu like skype if there's a common test that you want to perform there's probably service out there on the web for you I'm Wilson Tang for CNN com you