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 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 >> rica...@appletothecore.info >> Twitter:@apple2thecore >> www.appletothecore.info >> >> On Apr 9, 2012, at 9:37 AM, Stacey Robinson <stacey...@bellsouth.net> 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 macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
