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Open All Safari Bookmarks with a Click
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.
Mac Collection - Special Characters
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 | ⁐ | ⁑ | ⁒ | ⁓ | ⁔ | ⁕ | ⁖ | ⁗ | ⁘ | ⁙ | ⁚ | ⁛ | ⁜ | ⁝ | ⁞ |
Safari Trick : Dragging Tab
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.
Organizing Safari Bookmarks
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 :
- Applications ▸ Safari
- Contextual Menu ▸ Show Package Contents
- Contents ▸ Resources
- BookmarkPreferences.tiff
Switcher Guide : Using Web Browser
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.
Web Inspector for Safari
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.
Leopard and Safari
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.
Leopard Take A Look - Mail
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.
Mac Browser Auto Complete
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 Command-Return, this action will automatically perform update for the url while opening. The same rule apply on .org or .net.
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Creating Web Content with TextEdit
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 Command-N and Save the file Command-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 away to insert link into TextEdit itself.
- Highlight the text you want to be linked to.
- Access to Menu Bar the one with Apple 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 Return. The highlighted text will be underlined and displayed in blue. It just like link (of course).
Link address should be inserted into this
QuickSilver - Translate URL Using Google
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 :
Quicksilver - Multiple Urls
QuickSilver, the most powerful applications search engine, can perform opening multiple urls. This can be done easily without putting so much effort in doing repetitive tasks again and again. This action can be done by using the comma trick. However, it needs a little modification here.
There are several steps to perform this action :
- Invoke your QuickSilver, Option-Space
- Enter the text field by using .
- Type one of the urls you want to open
