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Thank you. I would love to use them, but ALL of them are ALWAYS grayed no matter what application I am using. Except the ones with triangles next to them. But unfortunately all of the services under the triangles are grayed as well. No application that I have ever used on my Mac has ever had any services available. That's why I though maybe I have to somehow activate them. Is something wrong with my OS? I've NEVER had any services available ever. Thus my original post. Do I need to have the other applications running at the same time? Please help.

Yeah, the services become useful when you have something (text, image, whatever) selected in a Cocoa app.

I can't explain why Grab isn't available even in the Finder, but you shouldn't ever have to open Grab.

From MacRumors Guides
    *  Command-Shift-3: Take a screenshot of the screen, and save it as a file on the desktop
    * Command-Shift-4, then select an area: Take a screenshot of an area and save it as a file on the desktop
    * Command-Shift-4, then space, then click a window: Take a screenshot of a window and save it as a file on the desktop
    * Command-Control-Shift-3: Take a screenshot of the screen, and save it to the clipboard
    * Command-Control-Shift-4, then select an area: Take a screenshot of an area and save it to the clipboard
    * Command-Control-Shift-4, then space, then click a window: Take a screenshot of a window and save it to the clipboard

In Leopard, the following keys can be held down while selecting an area (via Command-Shift-4 or Command-Control-Shift-4):
    * Space, to lock the size of the selected region and instead move it when the mouse moves
    * Shift, to resize only one edge of the selected region
    * Option, to resize the selected region with its center as the anchor point

I've used Command-Shift-3 since... I think sometime in the late 80's. Thanks for the rest of the commands!!!!!