Happy – Wade Tregaskis

Mail & Preview working together

February 9, 2024 by

Screenshot of a macOS dialog saying: "Do you want to save the changes made to the document "Waste Disposal Forms requiring signatures copy", with the buttons: "Reply to lora…", "New Mail Message", "Save", and "Cancel".

It’s the little things that sometimes impress me the most. Like when this dialog appeared: …after I’d filled out a form PDF that was emailed to me. It had exactly the option I wanted first and foremost, to send the completed PDF back to the sender. Sure, manually digging up the completed PDF from disk… Read more

A perfect little feature: Universal Clipboard

February 1, 2024 by

Apple product photo for Universal Clipboard, showing an iPhone next to a MacBook Pro, with an image selected on the iPhone and 'Copy' highlighted in the pop-up menu, and that same image in a Pages document on the Mac, implying it was just pasted there.

Perhaps in karmic balance of my previous post critical of one of Apple’s APIs, I want to highlight an Apple OS feature that I use every day, that ironically is so simple, obvious, and reliable that I almost never stop to appreciate it. Universal Clipboard basically just means you can copy something on one device… Read more