Nifty Summarize

Don't have time to read all the stuff being sent to you? Here's one more reason to love (and if you haven't, switch to) Mac OS X! I learned about this feature while watching Mac Break Episode 62: Summarize. Its a nifty little thing that lets you auto summarize any text be it from your web browser, a pdf file.

Select the text you want to summarize like so:


then... click on the menu...



the summary window will come out:


you can set how long the summary would be, by moving the slider and/or selecting the sentence or paragraph buttons like so:


i've tried it with the pdf viewer and it works, and no it doesn't work with Firefox but it does on Camino. This feature works for all cocoa apps.

here's the Camino screenshot:

This cool little tool and apparently has been with OSX for a long time, the boys from Macbreak said.