Most options in the menus of Mac OS X applications can be activated with keyboard shortcuts. Every once in a while, you may come across an option that does not have a keyboard shortcut assigned to it.

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Question: Q: Creating a Shortcut on a Mac Desktop. I'm sure this has a very simple answer, but me being a newbie to using a. Mac computer. Static IP of 192.168.2.10. It was simple to create shortcuts for my computer and my sister's, because I've used. Microsoft since it was DOS, and my sister's is Windows XP. Add Shortcut to Website On Mac Using Safari Browser While you can add shortcut to websites on practically any browser, we will be starting with Safari, which is the default browser on your Mac 1.

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This tutorial will show you how to create your own shortcuts. (.mov, 5 MB). (HTML). (Tagged PDF) To set up a new keyboard shortcut in Mac OS X:.

Choose Apple, System Preferences, Keyboard. Make sure you’re in the Keyboard Shortcuts pane and select the Add (+) button on the right side of the window. Choose the application where the keyboard shortcut will be used from the menu at the top of the popup window. Enter the name of the menu command exactly as it appears in the application you selected in step 3. Choose a shortcut by typing it into the Shortcut text box, then choose Add.

The Keyboard Shortcuts pane is also where you can change existing shortcuts. To change a shortcut, double-click the existing shortcut and enter new shortcut keys.

Is there a way to put a shortcut to a URL on the OS X desktop. Used to be able to do this in XP, but can’t figure out how to do it in OS X. It used to be a lot easier to figure out how to do this in Safari, actually, so I understand your point of confusion.

I remember that adjacent to the title of a Web page was a small icon that was draggable: just drag that onto your desktop and you’d have a handy URL shortcut saved. Fortunately, once you know what is still draggable, you’ll realize that it’s still pretty easy to do this. Instead of dragging an icon off the title bar, you need to drag the web page address from the address box. Like this: While we’re at it, turns out you can also drag a tab onto the desktop: and you can drag any clickable text onto the desktop too by simply moving the cursor to the link, pushing down on the mouse button and dragging the resultant link onto the desktop while the mouse button remains down: The end result is that you’ll have some nice shortcuts sitting on your Mac OS X desktop: By the way, these work in Firefox too, if you’re not a fan of Apple’s Safari browser. Well, this works for me– but with one problem. When I drag the favicon out of Safari onto my desktop, it makes a link to the website– but for some weird reason, that link always opens up in Firefox instead of Safari, even though Safari is where I got it from. I right-clicked on the link and chose “Get Info,” and it said the default application for opening such files was Finder.

(?) I changed it to Safari, but it continues opening in Firefox. This is a problem because Safari is where I have my login info saved for the site in question (it’s Google Calendar, and I use Firefox with a different Google account).

I have a similar problem. We are about to migrate from XP to OSx on a newly purchased iMAC. The Apple Store will be handling the transfer of files but they are unable to tell me whether the many Firefox shortcuts I have on my desktop and elsewhere will transfer.

They tell me that bookmarks will, but they can’t tell me about shortcuts to web pages. Does anybody know what I should expect and how to maintain the shortcuts? I don’t mind them being converted to Safari shortcuts and I certainly can load Firefox for OSx if necessary to enable their continued use. Gahhh, thank you SO much! I’m a Firefox user and I’ve been dragging the tabs to the desktop for years to make URL shortcuts. You know, so I see them in my face when I turn the computer on and I remember I need to finish something on that page. I updated my Firefox recently and all it does now is create a new window when I drag the tab.

It has been driving me NUTS. I don’t know why I didn’t think of dragging the icon on the actual address bar, not the one on the tab.

YAY, now I can make my shortcuts again. I totally agree with Peter (above). Dragging the tabs or URL addresses is tre cool FOR DESKTOP ONLY! (In Firefox)When I’m in Gmail and want to insert the web address I get a similar crap type thing, i.e., (which is great simply dragged–) now morphs into file:///Users/storr/Desktop/eastvillageperfumedcannibals.ning.com:%201.webloc Which is like totally useless as a link!—Suggestions? I’m contacting NING ’cause they referred me to you and this fella Peter’s comment above is more than a year old so obviously you are off selling stuff and not providing any more support herein (apologies if I’m wrong but I doubt that I am!).