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Safari Top Sites no longer blindly runs into hotspot pay walls

15. Mar, 2010 3 Comments

In the past, Safari’s Top Sites feature updated its preview icons with any old URL it ran into. Apple finally fixed the problem.

Safari

hotspots, Safari, Top Sites, Wi-Fi

Restore your last browsing session in Safari

01. Mar, 2010 8 Comments

It isn’t automatic session restore, but Safari can still re-open the tabs you had open the last time you quit it.

Safari

featured, Safari

Scrolling inside address bar of Safari when clicking the RSS icon

27. Jan, 2010 1 Comment

A simple effect helps to enforce an important transition.

Safari, UI, polish

address bar, polish, rss, Safari

Safari: Undo can retrieve deleted bookmarks

26. Nov, 2009 0 Comments

Delete a bookmark from Safari 4, hit Cmd-z, and the bookmark returns.

Finder, Safari

bookmarks, keyboard shortcuts, Safari

Safari: Quickly switch from Top Sites to a Cover Flow history view

23. Nov, 2009 2 Comments

Here’s a quick shortcut for switching from Safari 4’s Top Sites view to a full-page Cover Flow view of your history.

Safari

Cover Flow, history, keyboard shortcuts, Safari, search

Safari 4 pimps the Google search box instead of Google.com

16. Oct, 2009 0 Comments

If you try to change your homepage to Google.com, Safari 4 pushes the Google search box instead. Useful, especially since it has a keyboard shortcut.

Safari

dialogs, Google, Safari, UI

Use Safari’s “Open in Dashboard” feature to create a basic Google Voice widget

14. Oct, 2009 0 Comments

Easily create a Dashboard widget from Safari for many of your Google Voice needs.

Safari

Dashboard widgets, Google Voice, Safari, widgets

Safari: Drag and drop files to upload

12. Oct, 2009 1 Comment

A much easier way to prepare files for uploading through your browser.

Safari

10.5, 10.6, Apple apps, file management, Safari

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