Going on Safari Inside Apples W eb Browser Sunday, December 16, - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Going on Safari Inside Apples W eb Browser Sunday, December 16, 12 1 V ersion 6 - for the Lions New for Lion ( OS 10.7 ) More for Mt. Lion ( OS 10.8 ) Sunday, December 16, 12 2 Version 6 is available for Lion, but some of the features
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Version 6 is available for Lion, but some of the features only work with Mt. Lion 2 Sunday, December 16, 12
We’ve had some basic questions about browsers, so we’ll cover those quickly. A browser is software on your computer that allows you to view websites, or anything on your computer formatted for websites, such as html. Websites are a collection of text, images, links, videos, etc. put together by someone to present information to you over the internet. Search engines, such as Google, search the world wide web (servers all over the world) to get information on websites using keywords and key phrases, and index that information. When you do a search (Google, Yahoo, Bing) those indexes are accessed to show you what sites fit your search criteria. Other browsers that work on Apple products are Firefox, Google Chrome, and other smaller, specific topic search engines. 3 Sunday, December 16, 12
Best suggestion - use Software Update to be sure you get the version you need. Current version of Safari 6.0 comes with Mt. Lion. 4 Sunday, December 16, 12
Ful screen view - turning it on and off View/Hide T
Customize with useful icons View/Hide Bookmarks Bar View/Hide Tab Bar View/Hide Status Bar
First - how and what do you want to view? Turn full screen viewing on by clicking on the diagonal arrows in the top right corner. To turn it off, move your mouse to the top right of the full screen, which will open up the top navigation bar, again presenting you with the diagonal arrows. Click on these to turn full screen view off. The tool bar, bookmarks bar, tab bar and status bar can be hidden or shown using the View pulldown menu at the top of Safari. 5 Sunday, December 16, 12
Safari Preferences AutoFil - be careful what you reveal Passwords - good, but not as good as 1Password Security - Decide what’s alowed on your Safari
Some precautions - use Safari Preferences AutoFill - first box allows Safari to use information from your Contacts card. Second box allows Safari to prompt you to save user names and passwords you access on Safari. These are saved in your Keychain, and are visible in the Passwords Tab in Safari Preferences. I don't use this; I prefer 1Password. Third box under Auto fill allows Safari to save information you've filled in on websites, and will auto fill those fields with that saved information the next time you access that website. An example is information you've entered for shipping on Amazon. For all three of these AutoFill options, you can choose the Edit button next to it to change or delete any information saved there. Security - You can choose to have Safari warn you when you are accessing a site that has been tagged as Fraudulent. You can enable or disable plug-ins, Java, or Javascript, and block pop-up windows. Each of these have legitimate uses, but may affect the performance of your web connection if you have a slow connection. 6 Sunday, December 16, 12
Privacy Settings Block cookies (web data stored on your computer) Limit Location Services (location and time data) W ebsite Tracking (emerging privacy standard - requests websites not to track your browsing activity) View/remove website data (al website data stored on your computer
More Safari Preferences under the Privacy Tab Block cookies - I choose from third parties and advertisers; can choose always or never Limit Website access to Location services - location and time data determined from your browser using wifi servers - if you have Location Services enabled through System Preferences Privacy, you can limit that use on Safari here. Website tracking - ask websites not to track your browing activity - emerging privacy standard, may or may not affect how websites track you depending on if they adhere to this standard. Web Search - prevent search engine from providing suggestions - I don't check this as I like the suggestions that are provided by Google as I start to type my search terms. At the top of the privacy settings, you can choose to Remove all Website Data. 7 Sunday, December 16, 12
Safari Menu Private Browsing - (note - disables iCloud pushing history to other devices) Reset Safari - clears history, download history, cookies, website icons, names and passwords, AutoFil info and location services preferences, and search terms Empty Cache - clears cache fom prior browser views - now only available under Developer menu
Some additional features from Safari Menu Private browsing doesn't save information for this browsing session only. Note that if you are using iCloud to push browsing history to other devices, this will disable that. Reset Safari gives you the opportunity to clear various data stores for Safari; clicking on the button gives you the choice of what data you want to clear. Empty Cache is now only available under the Developer menu, as it is a useful tool for Developers. The Developer menu is not on your Safari menus by default. You can get it by going to the Avanced Tab in Safari Preferences, and clicking on Show Develop Menu in Menu Bar at the bottom of that tab. 8 Sunday, December 16, 12
iCloud Tabs (Mountain Lion) see pages viewed on other iCloud devices Sharing (Mountain Lion) Add to Reading List or Bookmark; share the page via Email, Message, T witter or Facebook
New tools - iCloud Tabs and updated Sharing - available only if you're on Mt. Lion iCloud Tabs - if you have iCloud enabled for Safari in System Preferences, this icon is available to you. If you do not see it, you either don't have
Toolbar and add the icon if the other two conditions are met. iCloud Tabs allows you to see all the tabs currently open on any of your other iCloud devices. So, for instance, if you had tabs open on Safari on your desktop, you could then click on this icon and see those open tabs on your laptop that is also iCloud enabled. This requires Safari to be open on both devices. Sharing - Add to Reading List, Bookmark, Email, Message (used to be iChat), Twitter or Facebook - all are ways you can share the current page you're on. 9 Sunday, December 16, 12
Other useful tools in the toolbar Email - opens your email program and inserts the link to the page you're on in Safari - quick way to email a link to a friend. Autofill Forms - if you've saved information from a page in the past (by turning AutoFill on in Safari Preferences), you can click on this icon to auto fill the same form the next time you come to it. Open in Dashboard - used to be called Web Clip. This allows you to choose a portion of a web page, add it to the Dashboard as a widget. This widget is then a clickable icon that takes you to that web page. Useful if you use Dashboard and want to store on it frequently visited web pages. Zoom/unzoom - commonly used to zoom in or out on a page. An additional feature is to zoom in only on the text on a page, if you choose that
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Serves as both address bar and search
Uses search engine set in Preferences Click magnifying glass to change search engine Click magnifying glass in empty search field to show recent searches Reload/Cancel loading button at right of bar
New integrated address and search field - similar to other browsers If you type a word or phrase that doesn't include a .com or other .extension, Safari assumes you are searching. If you type a full addess, Safari goes to that address. It uses the search engine you set in Safari Preferences If you click on the magnifying field in the search field, you can change which search engine you want to use, via a pulldown menu. Clicking on the magnifying on an empty search field (nothing typed in bar), Safari will show you your recent searches. At the far right of the bar, the button for reload will look like a circular arrow, allowing you to reload the page. While loading, it changes to an X, which you can click to stop the loading of the site. 11 Sunday, December 16, 12
Reader Button new to Safari 6 - similar to RSS feed - convenient for printing simplified view When the Reader button is blue, that means a site is Reader compatible. If you click on the Reader button, you will see a stripped-down version
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Downloads into download folder - can pull downloaded object from download on Safari or from Downloads folder. 13 Sunday, December 16, 12
The Reading list is part of Bookmarks, but useful as a more temporary, one-time item to read - not something you want to save for many future views. You can add items to your Safari reading list from other applications. For example, if someone emails you a link and you want to save it for future reading, you can Control Click on the link, which will give you a small contextual menu. In that menu, you can choose Share, and then choose Reading List. This will put that link into your Reading List. 14 Sunday, December 16, 12
Can be viewed in Cover Flow mode - for sites you’ve viewed Bookmarks Bar - across the top for most used bookmarks can be individual or folders drag and drop a bookmark into the bar Bookmarks Menu - for al those bookmarks you want to save - in folders
I use the Bookmarks bar, which shows up across the top of Safari, for those bookmarks I'm currently using the most. They can be a single item,
The Bookmarks Menu I use for all those bookmarks you want to save, individually or in folders, but don't necessarily use all the time. 15 Sunday, December 16, 12
Many ways to view In Bookmarks From History puldown menu History option at top of T
Search History option at bottom of T
Reopen last closed window or al windows fom last session fom History Menu
There are lots of ways to view your History of websites visited. It is the top item in the Bookmarks Menu. It is one of the options when you're in Top Sites View. You can search it from the bottom of the Top Sites View. And of course, the History pulldown menu gives you a lot of options concerning your viewing History. 16 Sunday, December 16, 12
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Can be edited Push pin to keep in top sites X to remove fom top sites Determine number of sites to be displayed by choosing size
Top Sites is that small icon that looks like a bunch of little black squares. I use Top Sites as my Home Page (set in Safari Preferences). It will, as advertised, show all the sites you visit the most. You can edit Top Sites, setting the push pin to keep an item in Top Sites, or X'ing it to remove it from Top Sites. Safari will fill in your next most-viewed site. And in Edit mode, you can select Small, Medium or Large, which determines the number of top sites shown on the page. 17 Sunday, December 16, 12
Convenient way to view multiple websites Add Tab Button Add Tab + at end of tabs Can reorder tabs by draging them In Bookmark Bar, can choose to see al items in Tabs Tab View Button (Mt. Lion)
In Safari Preferences, you can choose to have Safari open new windows in Tab view instead of New Windows. It is a convenient way to view multiple websites at once. One of the tools on your Toolbar is an Add Tab icon. In addition, at the end of tabs, there is a small tab with a + sign; that will also open a new tab. You can reorder tabs by dragging them back or forth. In the Bookmarks Bar, if you have a folder of bookmarks, you can choose to see all items in Tabs. This will open up all the items in that bookmarks folder at once in separate tabs. This is very convenient when you have a project that has you viewing the same websites frequently. In Mt. Lion, there is a Tab View button at the end of all the tabs next to the + sign. Clicking on this will change your screen to a view of all tabs
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Multi-touch gestures Pinch-in to see open tabs (Tab View) Swipe lef or right to go between open web pages Double tap to zoom in - tap again to return to original size Pinch to zoom in and out more precisely Scrol up or down with two fingers
If you have a track pad, Safari uses many gestures to help you in viewing websites. 19 Sunday, December 16, 12
Saves images fom websites to iPhoto by Control Clicking Resume (in System Preferences) wil reopen al websites you had opened when you last lef Safari (affects al apps) Extensions - lots of Safari extensions (example 1Password) Apple Extensions Developer T
Dictation - use your voice instead of typing
Some other interesting features: You can save an image from a website to iPhoto by control clicking on the image. This opens up a contextual menu of many things you can do with this photo. Saving it to iPhoto is only one. In Systems Preferences, under General, there is an option to Close Windows when quitting an application. If you don't have this turned on, Safari will resume where you left off the last time you were in Safari, opening all websites you had opened when you exited to Safari. This Resume feature applies to all Apple apps. In Safari Preferences, there is a tab for Extensions. There are a lot of extensions available for Safari. 1Password is an exampe of an extension. You can view the Apple-sanctioned extensions at extensions.apple.com. There are extensions available elsewhere - always check on the reliability of any extension by searching for reviews or comments on it. Developer tools - turn on in Safari Preferences under the Advanced Tab. Provides many useful tools for website developers. This is also where you can view the source for the current page, something that used to be available under the View menu. Dictation - if this enabled, you can dictate, for instance, a Google search term to your Mac. Depending on how well it understands your speech, it will type that search into place for you. Note: you need to have the cursor in place in the Search/Address field. 20 Sunday, December 16, 12
A few references: http://www.apple.com/safari/features.html - an extensive view of all of Safari 6.0's features http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5364 - a simpler view of Safari 6.0 primary features https://extensions.apple.com - Apple's Safari Extensions Gallery 21 Sunday, December 16, 12