Safari Hacks

Well, 10.5.7 update just dropped Tuesday!

Many apps were updated including Time Machine, Address Book, and iCal.  For Safari Beta 4 users, however, you need to update twice.

After the initial update (and it’s a big one!) reboot, and run Software Updater again.  You’ll notice a security update to Safari 4 Beta.

As usual, it seems to be one of Apple’s general “security and vulnerability,” updates. Your guess on those patches is as good as mine.  Correction! Apple talks about what got updated in Safari 4 Beta here.

It’s interesting that they even include a Beta’s update in the 10.5.7 update in the first place.  I guess enough people are using it that it was a good idea.

Good Luck!

Macworld posted regarding 10.5.7 as a whole here.

It’s always amazing to me to see how Google operates in terms of design. It seems that they have such grass-roots style of meetings, and are probably the least inhibited developers out there right now.

In case you didn’t know, Google’s Chrome browser runs off of webkit too. They recently had a couple of interesting tech talks that are available for developers or hobbyists to check out. I highly suggest it.

Google’s stream of consciousness style differs quite a bit from Apple, I’m sure. But, it’s so interesting to me to see how webkit is used in Chrome versus with Cocoa in Apple’s rendition.

Check it out…

This post is a rebuttal and a slightly different take on Rob Griffith’s post over at Macworld…

Why do I love Safari? In all the different operating systems I have tried, nothing gives the continuity of OS X. In Tiger, sure there were those random color skews in window shading, etc. What I am talking about, however, is how everything “just works.” From Address Book, to iCal, to Mail- the integration is clear. The fluidity of the apps make it easier to get work done. Period.

Now, I understand everyone has needs, and some will need Firefox. But, for the overwhelming number of OS X users, Safari simply rocks.

Microsoft and Linux don’t essentially want to provide ALL the tools one needs to work in a day. This is because in Windows, software costs money. In Linux, freedom is most prevalent, freedom to use Safari, or Konqueror, or browse in the Terminal if you want.

In OS X however, there strives to be no task un-completable upon first boot. Safari offers an amazing experience, and is nearly as compatible now as Firefox in terms of page rendering.

Furthermore, the experience of public beta 4, offers some awesome features to say the least.

Although not as “plugin-friendly,” from the start, there is plenty that can be customized in Safari, and we will be getting into that customization in the next few posts.

One reader over at Macworld even put me on to the hint of Command+Ctrl and hovering over any word in an open page will give the definition of that word. I love features like these that Apple has so eloquently placed in there.

I guess what makes Safari stand out is that it doesn’t strive to be a clean slate for customization, it attempts to offer every and any possibility for a Mac user, so that user doesn’t have to go looking for that outside solution in the first place. And for those times when there is something we need to squeeze from the depths of Safari, Safarihacks.com is here to help!

Obviously I’m a bit biased on this one, and although Safari may not be the best choice on Windows, I see no reason to look for another solution on my Macs.

Net Applications has released its compiled browser use data for the month of April, and the news is pretty good for Apple. Despite an arguable small downtick in market share for the quarter as measured by unit sales, Net Applications shows the share of users using Safari or Mac OS X to surf the Web holding steady for the first month of this quarter. The iPhone OS platform continues to gain share online, while Windows and IE continue a slow but steady decline.

 

to keep reading…

iRemember - Hack allows iPhone Safari to save your login details

If you are facing the issue of needing to login everytime you load Google Reader

in your iPhone’s Safari browser and its driving you insane then iRemember, a lightweight hack is just the solution for you.

iRemember fixes this irritating issue by making a few tweaks and allowing iPhone’s Safari to save cookies.

Before I start telling you more about iRemember, the issue of needing to login everytime is not with Google Reader but with iPhone’s Safari browser

as it it doesn’t save usernames and passwords when you have entered them.

iRemember fixes this irritating issue by making a few tweaks and allowing iPhone’s Safari to save cookies.

It apparently does some chmodding and chowning (changing the owner from “root” to “mobile”) and and tells you it’s “safe to uninstall” before Installer even finishes cleaning up.

You will need to jailbreak your iPhone to install this hack.

You can check out one of these iPhone software to jailbreak your iPhone: ZiPhone 3.0 - New version of Popular tool to JailBreak and Unlock iPhone or iLiberty: Easy to use Application to JailBreak, Activate and Unlock iPhone. As part of the jailbreaking process ZiPhone or Liberty will also install the Installer App.

Before hacking your iPhone it is a good idea to take a backup of your iPhone so you can restore it.

To install the hack via the Installer you need to add its software repository to the Installer app. Here are the simple steps that you need to follow to achieve this:

• Launch the Installer app by tapping its icon on your iPhone’s home screen.
• Tap “Sources” button.
• Then tap “Edit” in the upper-right corner.
• And tap “Add” in the upper-left corner.
• Enter the URL of the source: http://repo.ispazio.net.
  
• Press “OK”.
• Installer app will add the source, and you can then search for iRemember to install it.

As always we will love to know if you found this hack useful.

You could also checkout 1Password which has the ability to sync all login information as a bookmarklet to iPhone/iPod Touch. When opened, this bookmarklet will allow automatic login into any website

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[via Lifehacker]

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Safari Keyboard Shortcut For those shortcut key lovers out there, here is a long list of keyboard shortcuts for your Safari Browser.Enjoy the list.

Safari Menu Shortcuts:

COMMAND + A: Select all.
COMMAND + B: Show/Hide Favorites.
COMMAND + C: Copy.
COMMAND + D: Add a Bookmark.
COMMAND + E: Use current selection for Find.
COMMAND + F: Find.
COMMAND + G: Find next.
COMMAND + H: Hide Safari.
COMMAND + J: Advance to selection.
COMMAND + L: Open location.
COMMAND + M: Minimize.
COMMAND + N: Open new window.
COMMAND + O: Open file.
COMMAND + P: Print.
COMMAND + Q: Quit Safari.
COMMAND + R: Reload page.
COMMAND + S: Save As.
COMMAND + T: Show/Hide address toolbar.
COMMAND + V: Paste.
COMMAND + W: Close.
COMMAND + Z: Undo.
COMMAND + SHIFT + D: Add Bookmark to menu.
COMMAND + SHIFT + G: Find previous.
COMMAND + SHIFT + P: Page setup.
COMMAND + SHIFT + Z: Redo.
COMMAND + OPTION + A: Activity.
COMMAND + OPTION + B: Show all Bookmarks.
COMMAND + OPTION + D: Show/Hide Apple Dock.
COMMAND + OPTION + E: Empty Cache.
COMMAND + OPTION + F: Google Search.
COMMAND + OPTION + L: Downloads.
COMMAND + OPTION + M: Mark page for SnapBack.
COMMAND + OPTION + P: SnapBack to Page.
COMMAND + OPTION + S: SnapBack to Search.
COMMAND + OPTION + V: View Source in TextEdit.
COMMAND + 1: Load first bookmark in Bookmarks Toolbar.
COMMAND + 2: Load second bookmark in Bookmarks Toolbar.
COMMAND + 3: Load third bookmark in Bookmarks Toolbar.
COMMAND + 4: Load fourth bookmark in Bookmarks Toolbar.
COMMAND + 5: Load fifth bookmark in Bookmarks Toolbar.
COMMAND + 6: Load sixth bookmark in Bookmarks Toolbar.
COMMAND + 7: Load seventh bookmark in Bookmarks Toolbar.
COMMAND + 8: Load eighth bookmark in Bookmarks Toolbar.
COMMAND + 9: Load ninth bookmark in Bookmarks Toolbar.
COMMAND + ?: Load Safari Help.
COMMAND + ,: Load Preferences.

Browser Window:

OPTION + Arrow: Scroll page by a screenful, minus a small overlap.
COMMAND + Up Arrow: Scroll to top left corner of a web page.
COMMAND + Down Arrow: Scroll to bottom left corner of a web page.
Page Up: Scroll page up by a screenful, minus a small overlap.
Page Down: Scroll page down by a screenful, minus a small overlap.
HOME: Scroll to top left corner of a web page.
COMMAND + HOME: Go to your Home page.
COMMAND + SHIFT + H: Go to your Home page.
END: Scroll to bottom left corner of a web page.
SPACEBAR: Scroll page down by a screenful, minus a small overlap.
DELETE: Go back.
SHIFT + DELETE: Go forward.
COMMAND + Link on a web page: Opens the selected link in a new window.
COMMAND + SHIFT + Link on a web page: Opens the selected link in a new window, behind the current window.
OPTION + Link on a web page: Download a file.

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