Fancy tweeting the text you find on most app on the Mac with just ONE step? Simple. Find out how after the jump.
Step one:
Highlight any text you want, right click and look for the contextual menu item “Tweet” – click it and the text will appear on a new Tweet window in “Twitter for Mac”:http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/twitter/id409789998?mt=12(link opens Mac App Store).
Simple as that. There’s no Step two.
Of course, before this Tweet-everywhere magic happens, you will need the “Twitter for Mac”:http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/twitter/id409789998?mt=12 app running on your Mac.
If you have the app and yet have trouble using it, try this steps from “MacStories”:http://www.macstories.net/mac/twitter-for-mac-tweet-from-anywhere-in-os-x
bq.. TROUBLESHOOTING TIPS:
If this is not working for you, please check your Services Prefs and make sure ‘Tweet’ is checked under Files and Folders.
Open terminal.app and paste “/System/Library/Frameworks/CoreServices.framework/
Versions/A/Frameworks/LaunchServices.framework/Versions/A/Support/lsregister -kill -r -domain local -domain system -domain user”
Reboot and ‘Tweet’ should now show up in your contextual menu.
p. (/via “MacStories”:http://www.macstories.net/mac/twitter-for-mac-tweet-from-anywhere-in-os-x)
