05/31 Narita -> Charles de Gaulle -> Frankfurt -> Friedberg
06/02 Friedberg -> Dortmund
06/03 Dortmund -> Friedberg
06/05 Friedberg -> Frankfurt -> Charles de Gaulle -> Tours
06/06 Tours -> Paris
06/09 Paris -> Versailles
06/11 Versailles -> Charles de Gaulle -> Narita

One of the oldest (and potentially most useful) Mac features are text clippings (probably works with other types of content as well). Selecting some text in any application and dragging it to the desktop creates a text clip file there. You can then later drag this clip back into other applications, which will paste the text there. Double-clicking on the text clip will open it in the Finder, so that you can see the contents of the clip. Unfortunately, that is all you can do with it. It would be trivial to allow editing the contents of the clip, but you cannot. It would be even more trivial to allow selecting parts of the clip so that you can do selective pastes. I run into this problem every time I want to paste my postal code, or some password into a web form. Since I cannot directly paste only the postal code part of my address clipping, I have to either retype it (here it would be nice if the clipping window floated on top of everything else) or paste it into in intermediate text area and copy/paste from there again. Lame. And so easy to be fixed.

So my wish for the next OS upgrade would be this tiny improvement. But since it has not happened in the last ten years, and everyone will be working on Time Machine, or Expose, or iPhone integration, I do not have high hopes here. I'll probably install some freeware tool to help me out here.

Update: Oh my god, this is retarded. Apparently, from 10.3, you can select parts of the text clipping and Command-C them, but the text will never actually highlight. I am assuming that being able to covertly select from text areas that are declared noSelection is a bug, but I hope they do not fix this before they fix Text Clippings. You can also hack a Finder resource file to remove the noSelection property (which fixes the highlighting issue), and even remove the readOnly property to be able to edit the clipping (although the changes will not be saved).