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July 28th, 2010 - Apple.com, Mac OS X, Tips & Tricks
Apple has launched their official Safari Extensions Gallery, at this time it features 100 extensions out of the roughly 300 out in the wild. All of the extensions on Apple’s gallery have been digitally signed and sandboxed so you don’t have to worry about security problems like some of the Firefox extensions have had [...]
July 8th, 2010 - Tips & Tricks
Safari includes the ability to restore your last web browsing session, but unlike Firefox and Chrome, Safari won’t prompt you to do so. Here’s how to restore all the sites you were last looking at in Safari:
* Open the History menu
* Select “Reopen All Windows From Last Session”
* Wait as Safari relaunches windows and [...]
June 29th, 2010 - Mac OS X, Tips & Tricks
You can change your web browsers readable text size by hitting the Command key and + key (plus key, next to delete). Changes are immediate. Continuously hitting this key combination will continue to increase the font size and you can take it to ridiculous levels if you want. Reducing the size of the browser font [...]
June 10th, 2010 - How to, News
Ok so anyone that uses Google has probably noticed by now that you can change the background image of Google.com and set it to something you’d like. Today though people are finding a surprise; whether they set an image or not the Google background picture has changed!
Check out the absolute disaster of a background [...]
June 8th, 2010 - 10.6, Mac OS X
In the midst of all the exciting news about iPhone OS iOS 4 and the new iPhone 4, Apple snuck in yet another bit of innovation in the release of Safari 5. With little surprise, the most advertised of new features are enhancements to the rendering of HTML 5. Of the HTML [...]
June 6th, 2010 - Fun
Here’s an amusing comic breaking down web browsers. Thanks to Joseph B. for the submission.
Is this pretty accurate? Out of all the browsers I think Firefox is really too slow to be usable anymore, and I find myself in Safari and Chrome almost exclusively now. I haven’t touched Opera in ages, and the description [...]
June 4th, 2010 - Mac OS X
Earlier today apple unveiled its HTML 5 showcase. The showcase covers Video, Typography, Gallery, Transitions, Audio, 360 views and Virtual Reality examples. This marks a continued campaign against the current provider of most of these types of content, Adobe’s Flash. If you haven’t read Steve Jobs’ open letter to the community on the [...]
May 28th, 2010 - Tips & Tricks, iTunes
I’m kind of annoyed when I click a web link and it happens to be an iTunes Store link… iTunes then opens and it takes me out of my browser. I searched around for an easy solution and came across TheAppleBlog, they published a nice how-to guide on preventing iTunes from launching every time you [...]
May 16th, 2010 - Firefox, Troubleshooting
“Close Firefox – A copy of Firefox is already open. Only one copy of Firefox can be open at a time.”
You may have gotten this message if Firefox has recently crashed or you killed the process. The reason this error is appearing is likely because there is a lock file on your Firefox profile.
The easiest [...]
April 21st, 2010 - Mac OS X, Tips & Tricks
Do you want to keep yourself or your employees from wasting time on certain websites? Maybe you don’t want your child to see some of the virtual trashbins of the internet? By editing the /etc/hosts systems file, you can block any website, and here’s how to do it.
Easily block websites from being accessed in Safari, [...]