To add a page to your desktop, go to Control panel, Display, Desktop, and choose "Customize Desktop". On the "Web" tab click "New" and add the location of your to-do list HTML file, as shown.

Opening a Web browser to check the news is for suckers. Wouldn't it be better if your very desktop housed live, constantly updated snippets of Web pages? That way you could keep all sorts of ...

Website bookmarks are great to have, but what’s even better are desktop shortcuts right on the desktop. Here’s how to create website shortcuts and add them to your Mac desktop.

Instead of opening Google Docs directly in your browser, you can click on a shortcut on your taskbar or desktop and open the app that way. To do this, open Google Chrome and go to docs.google.com.