Hi Jane,
You're very welcome. The funny thing is that we just recently had
another question about how to put folders into the dock, so I ended up
writing new replies that pointed people to Tim Kilburn's VoiceOver
download pages to get the "Put items on the Dock" Automator workflow.
A few days earlier, and I could have just pointed people to your post
(smile).
Cheers,
Esther
On Nov 15, 2008, at 5:46 PM, Jane Jordan (Gmail) wrote:
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
