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Creating shortcuts to websites

mfacey

mfacey

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Here's something i've been trying to figure out for quite some time now:

How do you create shortcuts to websites on your desktop (or anywhere on the HDD for that matter)? In windows you can just hit "new shortcut", fill in the url and you're done. I guess there must be a similar option in Mac OSX

Thanks! 😀
 
From Safari and Camino, I believe that you can highlight the url and drag it to the desktop. That will create the shortcut.

Jim
 
jim. said:
From Safari and Camino, I believe that you can highlight the url and drag it to the desktop. That will create the shortcut.

Jim
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Ha! I must've been in Windows thinking mode. Duh!

Thanks!
 
Or, you can grab the icon to the left of the URL and drag that to the desktop. Same result. 🙂
 
You can also type out the URL in most any application that will let you drag-and-drop text to the desktop (e.g., BBEdit). Type out the URL, highlight, drag, and you get, instead of a normal textclipping, a webloc shortcut.

Also works for FTP URLs, email "mailto" URLs, usenet/newsgroup nntp:// URLs, instant message URLS (aim://), even FileMaker (fmp7://filename) URLs.
 
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