(Theres nothing I like better than saving people time and trouble by showing them a better way to use their Macs. These simple AppleScripts will save you time and trouble day after day after day.)
I am willing to bet that you have a bunch of websites that you look at every day.
Lets pretend that every morning you have a look at Time Magazine, Google News, the New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times. Even if you use a bookmark for each site theres enough mousing around that just opening the sites takes a measurable amount of time. It might not be much, but it all counts. And, you actually have to do the work-- it doesnt happen unless you do the work.
What if you could click a single item in your Dock and have all four of your news websites open, each in its own window, in a nice neat stack on your screen? Wouldnt that be cool?
Of course that would be cool. And, its totally doable. In fact, Ive done it for you, along with two variations (one for Mac-related news sites, and one for sports news). I did it with AppleScript, a very powerful feature of the Mac OS, available on every Mac.
Click to download the AppleScripts. Youll get a disk image. (If youre using Safari the disk image will probably open automatically. If not, or if youre using Firefox, look in your Downloads folder for something called "URL_AppleScripts.dmg" and double-click it.)
Eventually youll see the three items shown below. Theyre AppleScript Applications. Double-click each one to see what it does. Drag the ones you like to your Applications folder. Then, from there (that is, from in the Applications folder), drag them to the Dock. Now a single click in the Dock will trigger a multi-page masterpiece.
Of course you are probably thinking it would be even better if the sites that opened were the ones YOU liked, not the ones I like. Thats easy to do, and Ill write that up sometime soon. If youre in a hurry, tell me and Ill help you out right away.
In the meantime-- isnt this neat? One click opens four websites, neatly, quickly, efficiently. Who could ask for more?
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