Safari Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Buffalo Wild Wings testing iPads for ordering

by Mike Schramm (Feb 8th, 2012)

While we were in San Francisco for Macworld | iWorld, I noticed that the wait staff at Mel's Drive-in were using iPads to take orders. I hadn't seen that before, but apparently the folks at Mel's have used iPads for a while. Now an even bigger restaurant chain, Buffalo Wild Wings, is planning to ...

Safari users seeing random '404 not found' on valid support.apple.com pages

by TJ Luoma (Feb 2nd, 2012)

For the past few weeks, I have run into a problem with links to Apple.com coming up 404 "not found." Specifically, these have all been links to pages on http://support.apple.com/. For example, this morning I did a Google search for 10.7.3 combo. One of the first results was a link to ...

Hidden secret apps of CoreServices

by Erica Sadun (Jan 13th, 2012)

Nestled within the bosom of your Mac's system folder lie many powerful and curious applications. Not intended for direct access, the denizens of the CoreServices directory work as clients for other OS apps such as System Preferences or Safari. There are several CoreServices apps we use often at ...

Friday Favorite: WhatFont, a website font analysis tool

by Kelly Hodgkins (Dec 23rd, 2011)

If you're the type of person who looks at the design of a webpage, you'll want to download and install WhatFont. WhatFont is a straightforward tool, designed by college student Chengyin Liu, that apparently parses the CSS of a website and pulls out the font used in a section of text. It also ...

Friday Favorite: Lazarus Extension for Safari saves your form text

by Kelly Hodgkins (Dec 16th, 2011)

Don't you hate that sinking feeling you get when you spend five to ten minutes filling out a form -- and then you lose all the data because of a hiccup in your Internet connection, or because of Safari's tab reloading quirks? Before that happens to you again, you should check out Lazarus. It's ...

Safari 5.1.2 out now, fixes memory leaks, stability

by Mike Schramm (Nov 29th, 2011)

Apple has released version 5.1.2 of Safari, now available in a Software Update near you. The new version, according to the notes, increases stability, fixes a few issues that could cause hangs and memory leaks, and fixes an issue that would allow web page to flash to white. No more more freaky ...

Mac 101: Use web clippings to put a Mickey Mouse clock on your Mac

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Nov 8th, 2011)

Dashboard has several fantastic features, including the ability to turn any web clipping into a widget. Macworld readers decided to use this feature to grab the functioning Mickey Mouse clock from the iPod nano home page and use it on your desktop. Here's how to recreate it: Visit the iPod ...

Security researcher Charlie Miller finds serious bug in iOS

by Mike Schramm (Nov 7th, 2011)

Security expert and Mac hacker Charlie Miller has uncovered an issue in iOS that would allow an app, downloaded from the App Store, to install and run malicious code on a device from a remote computer. The flaw, which Miller reportedly did upload to the App Store and got past Apple's security ...

Daily Update for November 1, 2011

by Steven Sande (Nov 1st, 2011)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player ...

The 'iPad effect' on browser share numbers

by Chris Rawson (Oct 3rd, 2011)

InfoWorld has noted an 'iPad effect' on browser share among mobile devices. Broadly speaking, InfoWorld reports that mobile devices now appears to account for approximately seven percent of all browsing, up from three percent in 2010. If accurate, that's a pretty remarkable stat by itself, but ...

Popular Android browser Dolphin Browser now on iPhone

by Mike Schramm (Aug 30th, 2011)

One of the shiniest gems on the Android Marketplace has made its way over to the iOS App Store. The Dolphin browser was an early alternative to the official browser on Android phones, and actually ran faster and smoother than the real thing for a while. Now, the Dolphin browser has come to the ...

Kindle Cloud Reader quick look

by Steven Sande (Aug 15th, 2011)

For many Mac and iPad users, Amazon's Kindle Reader app (free) was the way to browse, purchase, and read electronic books. Then Apple had a change of heart about in-app purchases, basically demanding the standard App Store 30% take for any ebooks bought from within the Kindle Reader app. Amazon ...

Daily Mac App: Xmarks

by Samuel Gibbs (Aug 8th, 2011)

Need to sync bookmarks across multiple platforms and/or different browsers? You need Xmarks. The service that was on its way out, then bought by LastPass, allows you to sync bookmarks to the cloud, between machines and between different browsers. Xmarks has extensions or plugins for Safari ...

Safari browser growth outpaces Chrome in July

by Steven Sande (Aug 1st, 2011)

Apple's Safari browser is gaining usage share dramatically, with its largest increase ever during the month of July. Net Applications provides metrics on a regular basis showing how various web browsers are faring in terms of usage, and the July figures showed Safari being used by 8.1 percent of ...

Dear Aunt TUAW: How do I edit that Reading List thing?

by Erica Sadun (Jul 27th, 2011)

Dear Aunt TUAW, I've been trying to figure out if there is a way to add a URL to Reading List from outside of Safari, i.g. right-clicking a link in a Twitter post and using an Automator action from the services menu, etc... I don't see ANYTHING in Automator or AppleScript about Reading List. ...