Safari Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Popup Window for OS X

by Erica Sadun (Apr 17th, 2013)

Popup Window (US$5.99) provides an organizer utility for your desktop, enabling you to stick folders onto the edges of your screen and fold them in and out on demand. I loved the idea of this app although I ran into several problems when actually using it. The app is meant for anyone who ...

Slew of updates include Java, Safari, iPhoto and Aperture

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Apr 16th, 2013)

Apple decided to push a lot of updates this afternoon, most of them related to a Java update that disables the Java SE 6 applet plug-in. By disabling the plug-in, Apple is allowing consumers to re-enable it on a case-by-case basis. Apple has provided a full guide to the new plug-in ...

Net Applications: Safari still the top mobile browser

by Steven Sande (Apr 3rd, 2013)

According to the latest data from Net Applications, Apple's Safari still dominates mobile browser web traffic. As reported by John Paczkowski at AllThingsD, Safari for iOS grabbed 61.79 percent of all mobile browser web traffic in March of 2013, up from 55.41 percent in February. Net ...

Pocket for Safari and Chrome updated with tag autocomplete and more

by Randy Nelson (Feb 13th, 2013)

Pocket, the handy app that lets you "pocket" articles from the web to read later on Mac or iOS, saw a noteworthy update to its companion plugins for Safari and Chrome today. Among the notable new features is the auto-completion of tags, along with the ability to save articles from Reddit, ...

Google accused of tracking iPhone users, up to 10m could sue in the UK

by Steven Sande (Jan 28th, 2013)

The Guardian is reporting that Google may be hit with a slew of lawsuits over the company's clandestine monitoring of Britons who use the Safari web browser on iPhones, iPads and Macs. Google admits that it bypassed Safari security settings that blocked sites from tracking user habits through ...

Safari-to-1Password search bookmarklet for iOS

by TJ Luoma (Jan 14th, 2013)

1Password on iOS is the best way I've found to manage secure passwords, but the 4.0 version did not make it easy to search for passwords straight from Safari, iCab or another browser (well, not Chrome, which doesn't support bookmarklets). The recent 4.1 release added several bug-fixes and added ...

A reasonable response to Java security problems (Updated)

by TJ Luoma (Jan 11th, 2013)

Update: According to The Mac Observer, Apple has acted proactively to block the Java browser plug-in on Mac machines with OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard or higher. If you are running an earlier version of OS X, then you should disable Java as noted below. Update 2: In a remarkably speedy turnaround, ...

Daily Update for January 7, 2013

by Steven Sande (Jan 7th, 2013)

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 ...

Apple Safari is 10 years old today

by Steven Sande (Jan 7th, 2013)

Sniff. Those children of ours get so old so quickly... Today is the 10th birthday of Apple's Safari web browser, so have a little cake or maybe propose a toast to the default Mac and iOS browser. The first version of Safari was released as a public beta exactly 10 years ago today. The app was ...

How Apple's Safari was kept a secret

by Mike Wehner (Jan 4th, 2013)

How do you build and test a new web browser when nobody in the world -- outside of the tiny development team -- is allowed to know of its existence? Very carefully, according to Safari engineer Don Melton, who detailed some of the finer points of covert browser building on his personal ...

Friday Favorite: Exif Everywhere reveals the data that's hidden in photos

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jan 4th, 2013)

Everyone enjoys a good photography-driven website, but folks with a technical eye can't look at an image without wondering what camera took that shot, what settings were used and where it was taken. Exif Everywhere from MyLove Company is a browser extension and desktop app that provides those ...

iOS 6 JavaScript bug could affect mobile Safari users

by Mike Wehner (Dec 21st, 2012)

If you've used Safari on your iOS 6 device lately, you've probably noticed the new app banners that pop up on several sites whenever that site has a related app. But as AppleInsider reports, it looks like the new banners have the ability to meddle with your user settings without your consent by ...

Safari could have been called 'Freedom'

by Randy Nelson (Dec 20th, 2012)

Earlier this week, former Apple engineer Don Melton started his own personal blog. Yesterday, he recounted the time during his management of the web browser project he'd started at 1 Infinite Loop, when he first heard the name "Safari" (about a month before it shipped in January 2003). But before ...

Apple.com 'start page' lives

by Dave Caolo (Nov 15th, 2012)

For a long time, Apple customers launching the company's Safari web browser for the first time were directed to a "start page" at apple.com/startpage/. It disappeared for a while but oh, look! It's back! AppleInsider noticed that the page is again available after a months-long absence. It ...

TweetBot for Mac updated to 1.01, adds support for Reading List and j/k navigation

by Mike Schramm (Nov 7th, 2012)

TweetBot for Mac has been updated with just a .01 version, but the update still adds in some pretty powerful functionality. First of all, the update makes TweetBot compatible with Apple's Reading List service, so you can now add content to your Safari Reading List directly from the Twitter ...