Hi Chris,
On Sep 23, 2008, at 7:50 AM, Chris Gilland Desktop wrote:
Does anyone know how to make a favorite to a web site, or to a file/
folder, and put that on the Doc?
Yes, if you want to put a file or folder in the dock, go to Tim
Kilburns' download site and look for "Put items on the Dock":
http://homepage.mac.com/kilburns/voiceover/downloads.html
There are full instructions with the download about how to set up and
use this Automator workflow. Chris, you might also be interested in
using this on the Tiger platform as a quick way to browse and play
iTunes music. I think there might be performance issues for the
machine you're using to try this (insufficient memory), but take a
look at this archived post about playing your iTunes podcasts from the
dock under Tiger:
http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40macvisionaries.com/msg35623.html
If you're using Safari, press Control-N to read Holly's question and
use another Control-N to read my reply expanding on how this works.
(The Mail Archive site supports Access Keys for navigation of posts
and Control-N takes you to the next post in the thread -- I think that
for Internet Explorer you use Alt-N instead, but I haven't tried this.)
For URLs , I used to use "WeblocMaker" that was issued for Power PC
Macs:
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.levinvideo.com/jalstuff/geke/Software/WeblocMaker/WeblocMaker.tar.bz2
It's perfectly accessible, and brings up a small WeblocMaker window
that prompts you for a Web location URL, which you can copy and paste
from the URL address field of a web page (Command-L to navigate to the
address field, Command-C to copy it). Then switch applications
(Command-tab) to the WeblocMaker and paste in (Command-V) the desired
address and supply a Webloc Name. Despite being labeled for PowerPC
Macs, it also appears to work on my (Intel) MacBook with Leopard.
However, the author of this freeware tool, Geke Software, no longer
seems to maintain a web page, and the above link was the only current
download location I could find. It will create a "Webloc" file with
the specified name on your Desktop. When you double-click it, Safari
will open to the specified web page. You can also put it in the Dock
with the "Put items in Dock" automator action, and again, if your VO-
space (perform the default action) on this in the Dock, it will open a
Safari web page. (Note that you may want to adjust your Safari
Preferences depending on whether you use tabbed browsing or want this
to open in a new window.)
You can create "Webloc files" or "URL files" by making your selection
(VO-space) on the popup button for "Type" (Mac Web Location, Windows
Web Location, or Both). The URL locations work on Windows machines.
These files can be attached to mail messages. Close the app with
Command-Q when done.
To read more about this, see this old post in the Archives:
http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40macvisionaries.com/msg29570.html
One warning: the downloaded file was: WeblocMaker.tar.bz2.tar
indicating a second level of archiving. On my PowerPC this meant that
having the Stuffit application did not automatically open the app when
it was downloaded. I had to double-click the file to create a
WeblocMaker.tar.bz2 file and then I had to double-click (hold down
Control-Option-Shift keys and tap space bar twice) the
WeblocMarker.tar.bz2 file to have it unpack into a WeblocMaker folder
with the app inside. The Un-Archiver seems to be a more flexible
unpacking tool than Stuffit Expander, and on my MacBook I only had to
double-click on the downloaded file once. Here's the URL for the
Unarchiver:
http://wakaba.c3.cx/s/apps/unarchiver.html
Cheers,
Esther
