A friend of mine who was new to the Mac, and to computers in general, was getting some training, and I noticed that she had complete URLs in her Bookmarks Bar at the top of her Safari Browser. She only had three of them, and she commented that this feature was not such a good idea for a browser to have, since it was so useless.
Supressing a chuckle, I helped her to fix this by having her click on the little book icon at the extreme left of her browser window in the Bookmarks Bar. When the window came up with all her URLs listed, I told her how she could change the name to something familiar to her, without spelling out the whole URL in her Bookmarks Bar.
Then she thought the Bar was rather cool, and she promptly added a bunch more.
This got me to thinking about the Bar too, and when I went home, I changed mine too. The Bookmarks Bar is a very personal thing, and since you already know what these URLs are, why use anything more than a SINGLE LETTER to identify them?
By changing my Bookmarks Bar in this way, I now have more than 40 URLs across the top of my Safari window. I place them in groups, so that they are more readily identified in my mind, and I also place them in sequence in the order that I usually surf these sites each day.
I know this is no big deal here, but hey, if it makes your day easier, go ahead and make your own custom Bookmarks Bar. If nothing else, it will make your co-workers go nutts when they see some cryptic thing at the top of your browser. They might even think you are a bit cooler than they realized.
BTW, here is a list of what the URLs are in my screen capture (above). These are most excellent sites, and you might find some of them worth keeping for yourself. A warning, however. A few of these are great time-wasters.
http://borngraphics.com:2095/horde/login
http://www.biblegateway.com/
http://www.verseoftheday.com/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/messages
https://mymac.com/
http://news.google.com/
http://digg.com/
http://reddit.com/new
http://slashdot.org/
http://gizmodo.com/
http://appleinsider.com/
http://www.macdailynews.com/
http://engadget.com/
http://www.gizmag.co.uk/
http://inhabitat.com/
http://www.mocoloco.com/
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/
http://autoblog.com/
http://jalopnik.com/
http://www.airliners.net/
http://rogerborn.com/
http://ueba.net/
http://www.redferret.net/
http://www.mentalfloss.com/
http://www.eurekalert.org/
http://reubenmiller.typepad.com/
http://eternalsunset.net/
http://www.time.com/time
http://www.secondspring.co.uk/
http://www.abarim-publications.com/
http://www.openarchitecturenetwork.org/
http://writing.borngraphics.com/
http://www.sciscoop.com/main/
http://definr.com/
http://www.physorg.com/
http://www.9to5mac.com/
bookmarks folder “CMC†(comics – listed below)
http://www.weshow.com/uk/index
http://www.flightlevel350.com/
http://www.straightdope.com/index.html
http://heroeswiki.com/Main_Page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Stargate_SG-1_episodes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Stargate_Atlantis_episodes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Star_Trek:_Voyager_episodes
http://www.sciencedaily.com/
http://www.webshots.com/
http://www.railpictures.net/
http://www.familyradio.com/
http://www.wired.com/
http://www.cardesignnews.com/
http://www.sffworld.com/authors/b/born_roger/fiction/
http://www.cbsnews.com/
http://www.comics.com/comics/
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/comics/
http://www.gocomics.com/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artsandliving/comics/index.html
http://www.joyoftech.com/
http://questionablecontent.net/
http://www.basicinstructions.net/
http://xkcd.com/
http://www.jeffcohenstudio.com/bagoftoast/
http://www.transmogrifier.org/ch/comics/search.cgi
http://www.garfield.com/comics/
http://www.cartoonbank.com/
http://topwebcomics.com/
http://www.boltcity.com/comics.htm
http://www.hockeyzombie.com/
http://www.comicweb.com/onlinecomics.htm
http://www.robertweinberg.net/index.html
http://goldenagecomicbookstories.blogspot.com/
http://www.metafilter.com/
http://www.myextralife.com/index.php
http://ignatz.brinkster.net/index.html
http://www.animationarchive.org/
http://monsterblog.oneroom.org/
http://www.wetherobots.com/
http://www.meatsandfishes.com/
http://www.thehungersite.com/
http://thepaincomics.com/archives.htm
Regards,
Roger Born
“Sorry. No Refunds”
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