Actually, you're much better off doing this with the Dock, rather that
putting aliases on your desktop. Here's how.
While a program from your APplications folder is running, go to the
Dock with VO-D. Find the application by arrowing left/right through
the Dock items. When you find it, press the down arrow. A menu will
appear. Choose "Keep in Dock." Now this application with have a
shortcut in your Dock, even when it isn't running, from which you can
quickly launch it.
Alternatively, you can use spotlight as a quick application launcher.
By default, Command-Space will bring up Spotlight. Start typing the
first few letters of the applications name and then press enter. The
application will launch.
On Jan 13, 2009, at 2:58 PM, David Poehlman wrote:
you can do this but you cannot make a hot key for it. to create an
alias you can put on your desktop, press command-l while sitting on
the app or file or folder you want to make an alias of.
On Jan 13, 2009, at 4:54 PM, E.J. Zufelt wrote:
Good afternoon,
I would like to create "shortcuts" from programs in my Applications
folder to my Desktop folder. In windows I would right-click on the
item and select Send To > Desktop Shortcut.
Can someone please explain how things differ in OS X?
Thanks,
Everett
