Carl Mercier's blog » mailapp http://blog.carlmercier.com me = entrepreneur + hacker; Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:38:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Very simple paper to email on Mac OS X http://blog.carlmercier.com/2008/10/25/very-simple-paper-to-email-on-mac-os-x/ http://blog.carlmercier.com/2008/10/25/very-simple-paper-to-email-on-mac-os-x/#comments Sat, 25 Oct 2008 14:37:18 +0000 Carl Mercier http://blog.carlmercier.com/?p=166 Macintosh computers are great.  Not only are they more stable than their PC counterpart, but they totally get out of your way.  On the Mac, things just work, as you would hope or expect they would.  All the little nifty things the Mac offers really add up.  OS X is by far the best operating system around, in my opinion.

Ok, since you’re reading this, you’re probably already convinced of that so let’s jump to the meat.

Long story short, I had this paper document I wanted to send by email.  I could have done it in a dozen steps, but I felt lazy.  Here’s a trick I figured out to make it very quick and easy:

  1. Fire up Image Capture.
  2. Change Automatic Task to “Mail.app”.  To do so, click the dropdown menu, then “Other”, then browse to Mail.app in your Applications folder.
  3. Give your document a name in “Name” and set all the other settings as necessary.
  4. Hit overview/scan
  5. Mail opens up automatically after the scanning process.  Just type in the email address of the recipient and you’re done!
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