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September 30, 2004
Mac Hack: Safari Print Button
My local Mac users group most times covers stuff that's so far above my head technically, it might as well be in orbit.
But today there was a very useful and understandable hint.
If you use Safari as your Mac browser, well, to print you have to click on "File" up top, then scroll down to "Print," then hit the Print button in the drop-down menu.
Until now.
1) In the Safari window, type the following: javascript:window.print()
2) A blue globe will appear to the left of the "address"
3) Drag the globe to your Bookmarks Bar
4) You'll be asked to name the bookmark
5) Type the word Print
6) As they say at Nextel: Done
Amazingly, it works.
Nicely bypasses the trip to the File menu and subsequent scrolldown/choosing maneuver.
Waycool.
[via PG]
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I appologize in advance to taking this comment off on a tangent, so I will first say that it is pretty cool that you can program your own buttons with relative ease.
Since I am also about to bash on the mouse, I must first say it is a life saver when it comes to word processing. Using page up or down, end or home, moving word to word, is no match to simply clicking in space. And the same goes for spread sheets or using graphical user interfaces such as dreamweaver to code.
But when it comes down to it, the mouse makes everything else slower. Is it really necessary to tax your video card by drawing every guesture you make? And why can't we just jump to the different sections of a page that are interactive?
For some reason I have become so lazy or pathetic, that taking my hand off of the keyboard to find the mouse and find the keyboard again seems like such a tremendous effort. I really wish it was a little easier to navigate websites w/o the mouse.
There are some tricks though. Most people know about using tab to move from one field to another and shift tab to move in the opposit direction. But what about using the space bar to scroll down a page, rather than giving your middle finger a cardiac arrest on that middle mouse wheel. The space bar is also useful for activating check boxes.
Netscape based browsers such as Mozilla / Firefox have a nice feature which allows you to jump to links on a page whenever you type part of the text, and if you want to find plain text on a page, type a forward slash before typing the text.
Read on at your own disgression. I guess all of this talk is futile, because in about 5-10 years software will respond to our vocal commands and in another 10 or so years begin to anticipate our needs through bio feedback. And eventually with pico-technology, computers and machine will be microscopic. Think about issuing a verbal command such as "abracadabra" and having a bunch of machines, invisible to the naked eye, assemble something as complex or huge, as a car or house. Of course they will also insert them into our bodies taking over our immune systems, sketal structure and skin. And on the flip side with quantum computers machines will start to be more organic; the metalic and rock enfested world around us will become living and breathing.
But now I am in an over the top sci-fi state, arousing my paranoic (sometimes even when you try to make up words the dictionary beats you to it) concerns for the fact that there is a thin line between anticipating our needs and manifesting our needs. And since there is a great likelihood that the military will discover this first, think about how much money America spends, and their existence is dependent on fear, they will use this technology to destroy or control us.
Enjoy it while you still think you can.
Posted by: Matthew | Oct 1, 2004 2:52:14 AM
I always just hit the "command" and "P" button at the same time. I don't know why I like to use the keyboard more than the mouse. Maybe because I use a bluetooth keyboard sitting on my lap leaning back in my chair.
Posted by: Steve | Sep 30, 2004 5:31:11 PM
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