Here's a bit I missed: Tiger's Safari has a new feature called "private browsing." Simply launch Safari, then click
Safari-> Private Browsing, and you will be met with the following dialog:
Supposedly, it's for
security when browsing in public areas.
My take: Browsing without any history or tracks of your browsing? Porn mode.
Good thing Tiger also has parental controls, otherwise, I could see this being abused by every hormonal teenager on the planet.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
6-16-2005 @ 4:17PM
josh said...
SCOTTY We need more PORN POWER
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6-16-2005 @ 4:17PM
Kevin said...
What about cookies?
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6-16-2005 @ 4:17PM
Durandal said...
thanks for telling me about porn mode! now i dont have to do all that myself.
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6-16-2005 @ 4:17PM
Mark said...
I was going to say, it is a nifty tool for adults. The kids had this one licked a long time ago. We're just too slow to notice.
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6-16-2005 @ 4:17PM
Josh said...
http://dev.voxxit.com/pornmode.png
Created by moi. :)
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6-16-2005 @ 4:17PM
C.K. Sample, III said...
Ah, Dan, you're right! Today was the first time I ever launched that dialog box myself tho, so it struck me as if it were new. ;-)
Plus, I don't think I thought of the whole insidious-Porn-mode idea until today when I saw the dialog, and that shocking realization pushed all prior knowledge of this feature straight out of my brain.
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6-16-2005 @ 4:17PM
C.K. Sample, III said...
Josh: LOL
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6-16-2005 @ 4:17PM
Laurie said...
Josh - you just made diet coke come out of my nose. Are you happy now? Are ya? Huh???
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6-16-2005 @ 4:17PM
Josh said...
Yes :) Glad you guys like it.
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6-16-2005 @ 4:17PM
Michael said...
Yeah, Josh... you did the work... but who do you think hit command-shift-4 and drew a box? Who sacrificed his Safari to the experiment? Who risked his life to deliver the screenshot to you? Hmmmm? ME!
lol ;-}
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6-16-2005 @ 4:17PM
Josh said...
:)
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6-16-2005 @ 4:17PM
Laurie said...
I nominate Josh (and his trusty sidekick, Michael?) for TUAW Reader of the Day!
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6-16-2005 @ 4:17PM
Josh said...
Haha I'm honored :)
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6-16-2005 @ 4:17PM
RP said...
I have a Tiger Bit:
When in either the SpotLight window or the Finder Spotlight View, Option-Clicking any info button (on the right side) will open all of the info buttons for all items on the list.
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6-16-2005 @ 4:17PM
RP said...
i meant all items in that category
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6-20-2005 @ 4:56PM
Dan F. said...
CK, you didn't miss this; you just forgot it ;-) Last week you linked to Macworld's Tiger coverage, which talked about Private Browsing. I think you've reached Tiger information saturation ;-)
http://www.tuaw.com/2005/04/28/macworld-goes-tiger-crazy/
http://www.macworld.com/2005/04/features/tigersafari2/index.php
Relevant para:
Your browsing history, cookies, and cache files can contain information about where you’ve been, and even the content of those sites. Safari’s new Private Browsing feature, announced by Apple last year, disables these features while browsing—great for browsing on a public computer or even for the extra-cautious at home. (However, note that Private Browsing isn’t retroactive. If you’ve visited a site prior to enabling Private Browsing, remnants of that visit—cache files, cookies, and possibly even auto-fill values such as your name and password—may still be sitting around. So to fully benefit from Private Browsing, you’ll likely want to make sure that you don’t already have cookies and auto-fill data for “private” sites.)
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7-01-2005 @ 3:37PM
Alan said...
Well, these so-called "hormonal teenagers" are probably the offspring of PC users, and hence need porn because they can't get chicks (PCs suck, and teenage girls know this, which is why you always see iMacs in the bedrooms of teenage girls on TV). The children of Mac users will have no problems getting chicks, and hence do not need private browsing.
Wait, who am I kidding... THANK YOU, STEVIE J!
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8-16-2005 @ 12:28AM
Al said...
thanks for the spotlight tip, i knew there had to be a way to do that, one at a time was annoying...
and i'm am for sure hacking my Safari as soon as i get it..lol....although, i don't know if i want to install xTools just to do that..
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8-31-2005 @ 6:35AM
Paul said...
Is there a keyboard shortcut to activate private browsing ?
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10-02-2005 @ 3:56PM
Steven said...
Has anyone figured out how to have private browsing turned ON by default?
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