Since I released ShoveBox in August, a number of users have taken me to task on its menubar icon.
Up until now, it’s looked like this:
(The little box opens up when you drag importable data over it)
Many menu extras on Mac OS X use grayscale icons. But I reckoned ShoveBox’s wasn’t a problem because [...]

How Pasteboards Work
NSPasteboard is Mac OS X’s mechanism for handling copy and paste, drag and drop, and the choosing of fonts and colors.
When an app needs to take advantage of one of those features, they just call up the appropriate pasteboard. Along with the data to be read or written, the pasteboard stores the [...]