Mac OS X: System Services: services in a Diigo application - 71 views
started by Graham Perrin on 02 Jul 09
started by Graham Perrin on 02 Jul 09
started by Graham Perrin on 02 Jul 09
started by Graham Perrin on 02 Jul 09
Spun off from Next phase Diigo - the future
In the screen shot below, there's a large red ring around a fuzzy area within the Services menu:
In the ringed area, imagine services such as:
* Add to lists (Diigo)
* All annotations (Diigo)
* Bookmark (Diigo)
* Copy bookmark to groups (Diigo)
* Get annotated link (Diigo)
* Read later (Diigo)
* Save WebArchive of linked file (Diigo)
* Send (Diigo)
Think beyond the browser! From any application that presents a hyperlink we should be able to access these Diigo services, and more :-)
http://www.wuala.com/grahamperrin/public/2009/06/25/services/ for a broader impression of what's possible with System Services.
Incidentally, in those examples there's some overlap between Services and the platform-independent WebArchive format. http://www.wuala.com/grahamperrin/public/2009/06/25/webarchive/ for a glimpse of how applications pass data to and fro in this format, http://www.diigo.com/list/grahamperrin/webarchive?v=p for work in progress.
Notes
This is thinking for a mid- to long-term future. Not a priority suggestion.
System Services have been around since 2002.
Mac OS X 10.6 (forthcoming, around September 2009) offers significant improvements to System Services, including a Services submenu to the contextual menu.
If you want Services in a submenu (and more) in Mac OS X 10.5.x or earlier, I recommend ICeCoffEE.