Hi Ricardo and Stacey, I was just drafting a reply to Stacey when I read Ricardo's post. Two comments: first, for Ricardo's method, you can press Command-Shift-D to point directly to the Desktop, without having to navigate to the Home folder. Secondly, what you're actually saving with this technique is a web archive of all the contents of the web page in question, while you only need a pointer to address URL. You can make a file that willl do this by using TextEdit to create a plain text file:
1. From Finder, press Command-Shift-A to navigate to your Applications folder 2. Press "t" to navigate to TextEdit, and open it with Command-Down arrow or Command-O 3. If you're using the default TextEdit settings, press Command-Shift-T to switch from rich text to plain text format. 4. Type the following three lines, noting that for the third line you will simply be pressing the return key: [InternetShortcut] URL=https://nlsbard.loc.gov/ 5. Save the file with Command-S, and if you want it saved to your Desktop press Command-Shift-D. Type in a name in the text box like "bard.url" (without the quotes), and press return. You'll be asked to confirm that you want to use the ".url" extension instead of ".txt"'; just press return to accept this. 6. Close the file with Command-W Now you have a file on your Desktop that will open Safari to the bard web site whenever you open it. If you want to create a similar file for another web site, just change the URL address that you put into this file. In fact, you can simply copy the file you created, open the copy with TextEdit to change the URL address, and then save it to another file name with a ".url" extension. On most web sites, using the .url format will be between ten to a few hundred times smaller than a web archive file. This is AppleScriptable, but I'd have to dig this up. For earlier versions of the OS (Tiger and Leopard), I used a small utility called weblocmaker. HTH. Cheers, Esther On Apr 9, 2012, at 4:15 AM, Ricardo Walker wrote: > Hi, > > Drag and drop is really not necessary. First, go to the webpage you wish to > put on your desktop. Now, press command S to bring up the save dialog. > Press command shift H to bring the file browser to your Home folder. In > here,navigate to the desktop folder. Now press enter. The site should now > be on your desktop. > > hth > > Ricardo Walker > [email protected] > Twitter:@apple2thecore > www.appletothecore.info > > On Apr 9, 2012, at 9:37 AM, Stacey Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> I read in the VO manual for snow leopard that you can drag and drop things >> with VoiceOver. I want to put a shortcut to the bard website on my desktop >> but can't make this work. >> I know it can be done, but can someone give me step by step instructions to >> do it? >> Thanks, >> Stacey and GEB dog Chesley >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
