The Mac Muse by William Farina

Frame 3 - Moving a link to the Bookmark area

2007-09-18T12:03:00.000-07:00

Moving a web page link to the Safari Bookmarks area.

Pictured above and partly circled in red is the Bookmarks area of the Safari web browser. Notice the items circled in red. These are some of the ONE CLICK links that send you directly to web pages (no need to type a web page address).

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).

...by Bill Farina
contact me: macmuse@post.com

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In my next post I'll show you how to edit Safari Bookmarks.
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Frame 2 - Sample Web Browsers

2007-09-16T16:34:00.000-07:00

Many Web Browsers

To the left are some samples of the NAVIGATION area at the top of a small selection of browsers. Click on the picture to enlarge it. Click the back arrow on your browser to return to this blog.

A web browser is software used to aid you in your internet experience. Web browsers are used to see web pages and with them you can search for specific information in the billions of web pages available to you -- connect to your bank or stock account, search info on medicines, find web pages associated with television shows, or, perhaps you can use your browser to wander around in the net (serf) just to see what you can discover.

Now, you’re probably familiar with the Safari web browser. It came with your Macintosh operating system but maybe some of you like to use Internet Explorer or Netscape or even AOL. Each of these is quite popular and have a large following of users.

But did you know that there are many, many web browsers available to you? FireFox, Camino, SeaMonkey, iCab, OmniWeb and quite a few more can be used on your Mac.

Check out... http://www.macorchard.com/www/ ...and you get a run-down of a large sampling of browsers available for download. Note that some are not free. Click your back button to return to this blog.

Browsers are different and many of their features are specific. Spend time checking the PREFERENCES to see how the program can be modified. Find out what the buttons do and examine all of the menu items.

Generally speaking, I recommend that my clients find a browser with which they are comfortable and then get to know how to use it really, really well.

...by Bill Farina
contact me: macmuse@post.com

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In my next post I'll show you how to use the features of some of the browsers.
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Again, please note: I've also got a CafePress site for selling some VERY unusual tee-shirts. You don't have to buy any but go there for a few laughs. Click: http://www.cafepress.com/mythingtoncity or copy it into your web browser address line. Click your back button to return to this blog.

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Frame 1 - START

2007-09-13T06:33:00.000-07:00

Thank you for checking in on this blog.

It is my way of consulting with clients and friends on Macintosh issues.

Posts to this blog will happen whenever I can get the time to enter them. Check back often. If I get a lot of hits on it, I'll certainly be encouraged to keep it current.

Bill
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Please Note: I've also got a CafePress site for selling some VERY unusual tee-shirts. You don't have to buy any but go there for a few laughs.

Click: http://www.cafepress.com/mythingtoncity or copy it into your web browser address line. Click the back arrow on your browser to return to this blog.