I realize this is very late, but I wanted to thank you, Ester, for
putting up the URL to grab this script for putting things on the
dock. Ijust tried it, and it worked like a charm. Now I don't have
to navigate to the other computer onthe network, navigate through the
various folders, till I find what I want. Nope, I just go to the
dock, open the folder, and there it is. Fun.
Jane
On Sep 23, 2008, at 5:32 PM, Esther wrote:
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
