If you click once on the APPLE link, the browser will send you to the Apple home page. Click once on AMAZON and Safari sends you to the Amazon home page.
These links are super convenient and guess what. You can add your own favorite web links to the list thus making access to your bank, stock, or knitting home page easier than ever.
Here is how:
1.) Go to the page you would like to add as a link in the Bookmarks area. For this demo, we've gone to http://www.news.google.com. Note: the page you want to Bookmark must be displayed.
2,) Click and hold on the FAVICON --- that's name for the small icon on the left side of the address. It is a short cut way of saying FAVORITE ICON.
3.) In this case, the favicon is a small letter "G" --->
4.) Drag the favicon to the spot in the Bookmarks area that you want it to occupy. In our case, between the Apple link and the Amazon link (See what happens in Graphic 1 & 2, below):
5.) Once you have the favicon where you want (and you've released the mouse button from when you were dragging the favicon), Safari now presents you with a dialog box. It automatically gets named "Google News" but our problem is, the the words "Google News" are longer than we'd like. You can edit in this window and rename the link to "GNews" which is nice since it takes up less space on the Bookmark line (See Graphic 3 & 4, below).
7. Now click on the blue OK button.
8. The new link is now positioned next to the Apple link and has been renamed "GNews" (See Graphic 5, below)
9. Any time you want to go to the Google News web page (without having to type the complete address: "news.google.com") just click once on "GNews" in the Bookmarks area of Safari.
By the way, in the "old days" one needed to type "http://www.news.google.com" but the more modern web browsers allow you to type the shorter "news.google.com" into the address line (the line is also called the URL -- the Universal Resource Locator).
In my next post I'll show you how to edit Safari Bookmarks.
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8. The new link is now positioned next to the Apple link and has been renamed "GNews" (See Graphic 5, below)
9. Any time you want to go to the Google News web page (without having to type the complete address: "news.google.com") just click once on "GNews" in the Bookmarks area of Safari.
By the way, in the "old days" one needed to type "http://www.news.google.com" but the more modern web browsers allow you to type the shorter "news.google.com" into the address line (the line is also called the URL -- the Universal Resource Locator).
...by Bill Farina
contact me: macmuse@post.com
----------contact me: macmuse@post.com
In my next post I'll show you how to edit Safari Bookmarks.
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