[orry_main]

Why is it there? And why are all options always greyed out?

[RevEvs]

things usually have to be highlighted to allow you to use the menu. Why is it there? because they decided its better there than in the contextual menus.... where everyone knows it should be

although... my services menu is getting rather large now, so wouldnt want all that in a CM, would be nice to choose a set few to have in a CM tho..

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[Horsepoo!!!]

Services are something that haven't changed at all between Public Beta (or earlier?) and 10.3.4.

I don't know what Apple plans to do with Services but there are lots of things that have changed in OS X that make Services less and less important. Automator is probably what will kill Services altogether.

Who uses the Grab service anymore? Maybe 'Timed' is useful but they've long been replaced by the traditional key combos. The Finder service is beyond useless. Open URL? It doesn't even have a key combo...this makes clicking the Safari icon in the Dock much easier to do.

There are other services that are a bit more useful and Service should probably be kept alive because of them but I haven't seen anything extraordinary come out of Service lately. They were good during OS X's infancy though.

[Diggory Laycock]

Services are great - they should be in the context menu.

http://web.sabi.net/nriley/software/ IceCoffee allows this - but requires APE. (which I finally reluctantly installed - and it didn't destroy my machine.)

Services has changed since the Public Beta - but only in allowing Carbon apps to support them.

I find them v. useful - they allow you to send data from one application to another - and some services even allow the remote app to manipulate the data in the front app.

[ShotgunEd]

The services menu item is like a lot of things in OSX that i don't use.

I do exactly what the menu offers but in a different way. Like a 'new textedit window containing selection'...I'd hit cmd-c, click textedit in my dock and then cmd-v.

There are so many different ways of doing different things in OSX you can't be expected to use them all. Use what's best for you.

<edit> hmm the alt-shift-k apple symbol shows up in the text box for posting but doesn't show up in the actual forum post, rather as ?.

Bizarre </edit>