Re: Web shortcut files [was Re: Drag and drop with VO]

2012-04-10 Thread jason lefevers
ÎHi Jason I've created several of those .url files over the years and they are great. When in textedit did you switch from rich text to plain text? That's the only thing I can think of. So it beeps when you press command-s? Jim On Apr 9, 2012, at 2:28 PM, jason lefevers wrote: hey ester, I

Web shortcut files [was Re: Drag and drop with VO]

2012-04-09 Thread Esther
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

Re: Web shortcut files [was Re: Drag and drop with VO]

2012-04-09 Thread Stacey Robinson
Esther and Ricardo, I got the website saved as a web archive. Esther, I'm going to try your method too. On Apr 9, 2012, at 9:56 AM, Esther wrote: 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

Re: Web shortcut files [was Re: Drag and drop with VO]

2012-04-09 Thread jason lefevers
hey ester, I tryed doing this and when I try to save it it nwill not let me save it. I am just trying to do one for google just to try it out I followed all your steps went to save it and typed google.url in to save s box and hit return and it just makes a noise at me and thats as far as I

Re: Web shortcut files [was Re: Drag and drop with VO]

2012-04-09 Thread Jim Gatteys
Hi Jason I've created several of those .url files over the years and they are great. When in textedit did you switch from rich text to plain text? That's the only thing I can think of. So it beeps when you press command-s? Jim On Apr 9, 2012, at 2:28 PM, jason lefevers wrote: hey ester, I

Re: Web shortcut files [was Re: Drag and drop with VO]

2012-04-09 Thread Veronica Elsea
Hi Jason and others! Jason, the one thing I played with that seemed just a bit fuzzy was when to type the Command-shift-D to get the file on the desktop. I did this after typing command-S. Then I had to navigate back to the text area to type the name. When I hit enter after typing the name, I

Re: Web shortcut files [was Re: Drag and drop with VO]

2012-04-09 Thread Jim Gatteys
If it's this crazy to do, I may just stick with bookmarks. Is there a way to copy a url from a page we're visiting to a clipboard and enter it into a text file by pasting? Hi! One way to do it is to press command-l while on the web page to get the address field. Then you can press

Re: Web shortcut files [was Re: Drag and drop with VO]

2012-04-09 Thread Esther
Hi Jim and Jason, Jim's correct that the likely source of the problem is that you're trying to save your file in rich text format, which is the default setup for TextEdit. If you try to use Command-S to save a rich text format file to a name with a .url file extension, the system won't let

Re: Web shortcut files [was Re: Drag and drop with VO]

2012-04-09 Thread Teresa Cochran
Actually, I only got those dialogs the first time I opened the file. Once you ok it once, it doesn't do that anymore. I really like that little trick though. Thanks, Esther. Teresa The Golden Age of science fiction is twelve.--Pete Graham On Apr 9, 2012, at 2:32 PM, Veronica Elsea wrote: Hi