Wow. thanks for all this info.
Incredibly helpful!
Chris.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Esther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS X by
theblind" <[email protected]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2008 5:32 PM
Subject: Re: Speaking a putting things on the Doc...
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
