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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

Camino and Safari: Quick keyboard access to the Bookmarks Bar

10. Dec, 2009 4 Comments

Faster browsing and working with a simple keyboard shortcut.

3rd-Party Apps

bookmarks, Camino, Command key, keyboard shortcuts, 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 smart-names duplicate downloads

30. Oct, 2009 5 Comments

Safari 4.0.3 on 10.6.1 will append “-#” to a duplicate download (“Item-1″, “Item-2″ etc). When the file is named with a version number as in “Application-1.2.3″, Safari will insert the “-#” between the text and the number so as not to confuse any versioning system (“Application-1-1.2.3″).
Editor’s note: Can someone check if this is a Safari [...]

Snow Leopard

downloads, Safari

Easily find the relevant part of a Google result

23. Oct, 2009 3 Comments

If you’re ever looking through a website that you found from a Google search, but are having a hard time finding the relevant part of the page, try this:

Perform a Google search in the Safari toolbar.
Click a link in the results page.
Press Command+G.

Voilá! With one command Safari will find the first word of your search [...]

General

10.6, Apple apps, keyboard shortcuts, Safari, submission