To change the icon to something a bit more meaningful open the info page for the item by either selecting the item and hitting COMMAND-I or right click (hold the control key while clicking) on the item to display the context menu as demonstrated in Figure 4. More than likely you would like to change this to something a little more meaningful, since all of the shortcuts to web links you create will have this same icon. You’ll notice a new HTTP icon on your desktop similar to Figure 3 with the title of the link you dragged. Drag the URL, usually by grabbing the FavIcon, to the desktop. Launched Safari and navigate to the page you would like to bookmark on the desktop. This is something handy for teachers who want to make it easier for their students to access specific websites, or a business that wants to publish an icon for their customer login page. My goal is to demonstrate how to create a web page shortcut that is easily identifiable. Have you ever needed, or just wanted, to make a shortcut icon on the the desktop in Mac OS X? Honestly it’s relatively trivial to do but the result isn’t always what people expect.