Tag: safari

Tip: See How Your Site Looks On Other Devices With Safari’s Responsive Design Mode

More and more Web designers are building websites to be “responsive”—that is, they’ll adapt to show content in a format that’s most appropriate for whatever...
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How To Change Safari Reader’s Appearance In El Capitan

Safari’s Reader mode is a handy feature that makes it easier to focus on the contents of an article by stripping away everything but the body...
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Worth Reading: Seth Clifford On Apple’s Default Apps

As a diehard Safari user, I tend to get a little defensive toward people who belittle the idea of using Apple’s default apps. (I also waffle...
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30 Days Of iOS Tips: Request To View The Desktop Version Of A Website In Safari

As useful as “mobile” versions of website can be, sometimes they just aren’t worth the trouble. Navigation is often different, and features may be tucked...
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30 Days Of iOS Tips: Use iCloud Tabs To Get At Webpages Open On Other Devices

iCloud Tabs is an OS X and iOS feature that lets you quickly view a webpage open on any of your devices from any of...
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31 Days Of OS X Tips: Move Bookmarks From Other Browsers Into Safari

One’s taste in Web browsers is a surprisingly personal choice. I’m a fairly devoted Safari user, but I’m not one to evangelize for it and argue...
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Yosemite Tip: Master These Safari Settings For Better Browsing

Safari received quite an overhaul in OS X Yosemite—and we’re not just talking about looks. Apple changed many aspects of how the browser behaves, and added a...
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Tuesday Tips: Enable Safari Extensions On iOS 8

iOS 8 includes support for extensions in Safari, which allows developers to add useful features to the browser. And like some of the other more advanced features...
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Apple Blocking Old Versions Of Flash After Another Security Exploit

Apple is blocking older version of Flash on Mac OS X after yet another security exploit has been exposed for the plug-in. Users running old versions...
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View Twitter Links In Safari’s Shared Links Tab

With iOS 7, Apple brought deeper Twitter integration to the iOS platform. With this came Shared Links, an addition to Safari that allows users to...
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Reopen Accidentally Closed Tabs In Mobile Safari

Have you ever accidentally closed a tab in Safari and cursed yourself, wondering how to get back to the content that you closed? Until recently,...
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How To Block Specific Websites And Adult Content In Safari For iOS

The internet is a big place, and it has a lot of straight-up weird shit on it. Giving your kids their own iOS device opens...
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How To Close All Safari Tabs At Once In iOS 7

This one’s simple, but hidden enough that you may not realize you can close  all of your open browser tabs at one time in iOS...
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Don’t Like Twitter’s New Look? Here’s How To Make It Less Ugly

“Twitter, that is not a good look for you.” That was my first reaction when Twitter’s latest redesign got switched on for my account. My...
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Tired Of Cleaning Your Downloads Folder? Why Not Use ‘/TMP’ Instead?

Sure there’s plenty of applications out there that will clean up folders for you and file your stuff based on a bunch of rules, but...
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How To Block Flash For All Websites But A Select Few

I recently formatted Mavericks, but then it happened: I was being asked to download and install Flash on my computer. At first I avoided it...
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Google To Pay $17 Million Settlement For Bypassing Safari Security Settings

Google has agreed to pay out a $17 million settlement to 37 US states and the District of Columbia for bypassing Safari’s security settings. New...
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Opera Releases ‘Coast’, New Browser Exclusive To iPad

If you’re looking for an alternative to Safari on your iPad, perhaps you should try Opera’s new browser “Coast”. Coast is an iPad-only browser developed...
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