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MAY
12

There are 2 ways to export Safari Bookmarks plist file into HTML file, the first one is the geeky way and the other is using third party application. Let's see how it can be done.

The Geeky Way

Open your Terminal and execute this command line, which will add Debug menu to Safari :

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APR
29

Usually, what will you do when you want to start new search with Google search bar on the top-right corner of your web browser? There are three ways to do that.

Type 1. Google Homepage

This is the least advanced way. However, most of my friends still use this way. First, you open new tab (shortcut : T), followed by typing in the url address "www.google.com", filling in the search term and Google will return you the result.

The advantage of using this way is that you can see Google homepage which in special occasion, the logo is changed.

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APR
28

It's quite surprising that when I open my MacBook today, I saw a globe instead of Apple logo. Anyone knows why?

Safari Private Browsing

Ok. Let's talk about Private Browsing of Safari. We all know that with private browsing, whatever we browse won't come out at the History section of our Safari browser. It's quite a nice feature that Safari has.

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MAR
08

With Opera, you can do something similar to Firefox add-on called Greasemonkey.

Greasemonkey is used to customize webpage to be displayed as your own preference. However, if you're not Firefox user, you also can do this by using Opera.

How to do that? Let's explore those steps.

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JAN
16

Since the update to Leopard, I've become Safari addict because it not only accelerates faster than other browsers but also provides handy way to manage bookmarks and easy way of accessing them back.

Actually, I was used to be questioning myself how to open all my bookmarks in one category faster. I'd discovered the way, i.e. by clicking on Open in Tabs.

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JAN
09

I've copied here several Special Characters that are already provided within your Mac and compatible for the web in case you will need them someday. I have discussed before how to get these characters in my previous article.

General Punctuation


0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
2010
2020
2030
2040
2050
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JAN
01

Safari Trick : Dragging Tab

Posted by Wendy digg delicious su


Import Tabs from Other Browsers

When I made a visit to MacTips, I stumbled upon the article entitled Drag Tabs Between 2 Browsers. To my disappointment, after some trials, I still cannot drag my Safari tab into other browsers but I succeed to do it oppositely from other browsers to Safari.

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DEC
18

Organizing Safari Bookmarks

Posted by Wendy digg delicious su


Since I've upgraded to Leopard, I've eventually migrated from Firefox, which is rich of ad-ons, to Safari, which has been proved to render the page much faster.

In addition to that, I also like Safari Bookmark that is easy to create, manage and organize.

Adding Bookmark Items

Adding bookmark items comes in handy when you're using Safari. Maybe you've been wondering what is the function of the globe next to the url address, and now you will have the answer : it's for dragging the url into bookmark bar and hence in return, you will have new bookmark item. It's easy right?

Trick :
If you happen to invoke your Safari Bookmarks Preferences Pane, you will see the blue globe as the icon. If you want, you can change this icon which can be easily found with these simple steps :

  1. Applications ▸ Safari
  2. Contextual Menu ▸ Show Package Contents
  3. Contents ▸ Resources
  4. BookmarkPreferences.tiff

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DEC
05

What are the things that are essential for many switchers?

The Launching of Safari


Until know I realize the variation of preferences in using Mac. Some prefer to use keyboard, some prefer to use mouse, while others prefer to use both. I, as a keyboard-only user and sometimes mouse-only user, would gladly share my experience in navigating web browser.

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DEC
02

Web Inspector for Safari

Posted by Wendy digg delicious su


Inspector Ready to Use


defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitDeveloperExtras -bool true

Lucky for developers, with single line of command as shown above run from Terminal, Web Inspector that can scan through web pages, like Firebug in Firefox, will be ready to use.

Many things you can inspect with this tool, from the most common stylesheets up to the time used by Network to retrieve the data. As you can see on image below.

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NOV
19

Leopard and Safari

Posted by Wendy digg delicious su


There are several things that can make you consider using Safari as your Leopard web browser. Let's take a look at them.

Ultimate Safari Webclip


Webclip is newly released tool for Safari. With Webclip, you can pick portion of your favorite web pages as an new Dashboard widget. Webclip is located next to the reload button.

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OCT
28

Leopard Take A Look - Mail

Posted by Wendy digg delicious su


Leopard Mail supports AOL, Yahoo! Mail and Gmail. And many features added, including RSS.

Mail and Spotlight

You will be really often to use Spotlight inside your Mail. Spotlight can spot messages, to-dos, notes, or even RSS feeds inside your Mail. And I love the new smarter Spotlight ranking system. Let's see how Spotlight search the keyword Leopard for certain RSS. You can compare with Spotlight search result with the very same keyword for entire Mail.

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SEP
09

Mac Browser Auto Complete

Posted by Wendy digg delicious su


It is very glad to know that some of web browsers support very fast auto complete. This is an amazing auto complete that save time to time .com, .org or .net. Not all web browsers support this auto complete feature. This works on Firefox, Flock, and Netscape.

For example, when it is demanded to open url http://www.apple.com/, simply type down apple and then hit , this action will automatically perform update for the url while opening. The same rule apply on .org or .net.

AUG
31

TextEdit must be a well-known Application for all Mac users. Besides its simplicity, it's also been loved because of its effectivity.

One of its useful, hidden, and effective feature is saving in the form of webpage (usually known as HTML format).

What are those features that support building webpage content? Those features are Inserting Link, Building Table, Constructing List, and Customize CSS Style. However, make sure that the file is already saved in with HTML format.


Changing to HTML Format

This is the most important part before going through other tricks; without this part, applying other tricks will end up in vain. Let's see how to do it. Don't worry it's just 3 steps.

  • Create New document N and Save the file S
  • Go under File Format
  • Choose HTML

It's easy, isn't it?


Link Mania

Links is one of the important factors for building web, especially for bloggers. Fortunately, TextEdit provides quick, easy, and only 3-step way to insert link into TextEdit itself.

  • Highlight the text you want to be linked to.
  • Access to Menu Bar the one with on the leftmost, then go under top down menu Format. Mouse hover the Text and it will show up to the right another menu, look for Link... . It's rather hard to describe with words. However, the fastest way will be exposed at the bottom of this article.
  • Enter the destination link. Hit . The highlighted text will be underlined and displayed in blue. It just like link (of course).

Link address should be inserted into this

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AUG
26

It's surprising yet incredible that QuickSilver can save your time translating the whole URL. You just need to do some steps below and Google! will help you translate your target URL.

Translate URL

There are 5 steps :