Power users already know about the magic of the proxy icon—the tiny icon that appears in the title bar of most windows. But Hints reader arti.66 found a unique benefit to the proxy icon in Apple Mail.

Proxy icons, or as Apple now calls them, “window title icons,” are tiny icons that sit next to the window title in Finder windows and windows from document-focused apps. Dragging the proxy icon to ...

If you’re working on a document and you want to send it to someone as an e-mail attachment, you probably know that you can drag the actual file icon to the Mail icon in the Dock to create a new ...

One of the least known and most useful shortcuts in the Mac toolbox has long been the capability to use a window’s proxy icon—the little icon next to the window’s title—as though it were any other ...