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Share a Web page from Safari on the iPhone 4?

I spend a lot of time surfing the Web on my iPhone 4 and sometimes want to share what I find with my administrative assistant. On my laptop, I can just copy and paste the URL, but in Safari on my Apple iPhone, I can't seem to do the same without a lot of hassle. Is there an easier way to share a Web page address on the little gizmo?

Question answered on November 4, 2011 at 10:54 AM :: Comments to date: 0

How do I copy / paste a Web URL on my iPhone?

Sometimes when I'm browsing the Web on my Apple iPhone 4, I bump into a Web page that I'd like to send to a friend or two via text message. I know that there's a way to email someone the URL of a page I'm viewing, but how can I just get the URL into the copy/paste buffer so I can paste it anywhere?

Question answered on January 1, 2011 at 08:36 AM :: Comments to date: 1

How do I copy my Firefox bookmarks into Safari?

Category: Mac OS X Help

I'm probably going backwards compared to most people, but I have been using Firefox and am tired of it crashing all the time, so I want to go back to Safari on my MacBook. Problem is, I don't know how to copy across my bookmarks bar and it's pretty tweaked for the way I browse.

Question answered on September 24, 2010 at 08:38 AM :: Comments to date: 2

How do I create CSS3 rounded corners and drop shadows?

Category: HTML and CSS

I want to start experimenting with CSS3 on my Web site and would like to start with rounded corners and drop shadows, both of which would be mondo cool to include on my site. Is it too soon? If not, how do I create CSS3 border radius containers?

Question answered on July 14, 2010 at 08:48 AM :: Comments to date: 1

How can I add 1Password to Google Chrome / Chromium?

Category: Mac OS X Help

I'm experimenting by switching from Safari on my Mac OS X system to Google's new Chrome system (well, actually I am running Chromium, the software build release that includes support for extensions) and the one thing I really miss is 1Password. Is there any way to add that to Chrome??

Question answered on January 13, 2010 at 01:13 PM :: Comments to date: 3

How do I clear Firefox browser history?

Category: Mac OS X Help

I just read your information on how to clear search history on a Safari (see how to clear your Safari browser history). It was easy to read and understand. Do you have information on how to clear it on Firefox I have a Macintosh OSX? I can't figure it out.

Question answered on October 3, 2009 at 08:56 AM :: Comments to date: 2

How do I sign up for Apple's Mobile Me service?

Now that I have an iMac and an Apple iPhone 3GS I am thinking I should also sign up for Apple's Mobile Me service so I can have wireless syncing and be just a bit safer in case I lose my phone too. How do I proceed?

Question answered on July 9, 2009 at 08:37 AM :: Comments to date: 1

What's the most useful Mac software for college students?

Category: Mac OS X Help
You're heading to college - or your child is - and you want to figure out how to set up their shiny new Apple MacBook or iMac so that they'll be maximally efficient and have fun too?  Well, you could go and ask the people at the Apple Store what they recommend, but instead, we went straight to the source, asking undergrad Mac fan Zack Shapiro of the University of Colorado, Boulder for his recommendations.

Be warned, though, you might not like what he suggests...
Question answered on May 16, 2009 at 07:07 AM :: Comments to date: 5

Visiting my site may harm my computer? What the heck?

As a contributing author to a weblog about South Africa's upcoming World Cup 2010 (see The South Africa Project) I was rather surprised the other day when I went to log in to our Wordpress blog, just to see the following warning in my Web browser:

website malware warning

What does it mean? How can we get this sort of warning from our own site, without ever opening up anything or getting any indication that we'd be hacked or compromised?

Question answered on May 9, 2009 at 09:52 AM :: Comments to date: 4

How do I change the default search engine in Safari on my Apple iPhone?

I don't know how it changed, but suddenly the default search engine on my Apple iPhone 3G is Yahoo, not Google. Now I like Yahoo as much as the next guy, but I really want Google back. How the heck do I change the default search engine in Safari??

Question answered on March 23, 2009 at 10:25 AM :: Comments to date: 8

Why do companies pay to produce software they give away?

I am quite frankly baffled why a huge company like Google would pay a bunch of programmers to develop yet another web browser, when we have Internet Explorer for Windows from Microsoft, Safari for Mac OS X from Apple, and the great third-party Firefox free web browser for both Mac and PC. What am I not seeing about companies that pay to develop software and then distribute it without charge?

Question answered on October 1, 2008 at 08:27 AM :: Comments to date: 1

How do I make Firefox 3 my default Web browser?

Category: Mac OS X Help

I downloaded Firefox 3 like many other folk and really like it, but for reasons I don't really understand, when I click on a URL in an email message, it launches Camino, my old browser. How do I make Firefox my default browser?

Question answered on June 20, 2008 at 09:13 PM :: Comments to date: 1

How can I view PDF files within Firefox 3 (FF3)?

Category: Mac OS X Help

I just upgraded to Firefox 3.0 on my Mac OS X system, along with millions of other people apparently, and just realized that one feature I've lost is the ability to view PDF files within the Web browser. I don't want to launch Preview or Adobe Reader, I want to view PDF documents I encounter within Firefox. Is there a solution?

Question answered on June 19, 2008 at 08:46 AM :: Comments to date: 3

How do I remove bookmarks in Flock?

Category: Mac OS X Help

A few months ago I switched from Safari to Flock as my main Web browser and generally I'm happy with the program and love the additional social networking capabilities, but I'm puzzled by one thing: how do I edit my bookmarks? In Safari there's a handy little "book" button, but there's no equivalent in Flock!

Question answered on May 24, 2008 at 08:30 AM :: Comments to date: 2

How can I save mp3 links from email messages?

I'm a happy subscriber to your splendid Blogsmart News newsletter and was glad to get a link to the amazing results with adwords lecture you did with Joy in the latest news. But I can't save it? How the heck do I save an mp3 file when the link is in an email message?

Question answered on October 26, 2006 at 09:33 AM :: Comments to date: 13

How do I sychronize passwords on Safari and Firefox?

Category: Mac OS X Help

A pal of mine uses a program called Roboform on her PC to keep her site passwords all synchronized between her different Web browsers and as a Mac user I figure there's got to be at least as good a solution, if not better on my new Macintosh. So how do you manage your passwords?

Question answered on September 28, 2006 at 11:31 AM :: Comments to date: 1

Why is my browser showing a page differently to my wife's browser?

Category: Mac OS X Help

I have a Dual 2Gig G5 running the latest version of Mac OS X. I'm having difficulty getting all of the "buttons" on a certain webpage from showing up in Safari. They show up fine when I log in to my account. They used to show up fine when logged in on my wife's account, but now they no longer appear. What could cause something like this to be blocked on one account, but not the other.

Question answered on March 24, 2006 at 06:34 PM :: Comments to date: 1

How do I clear recent searches from Safari and Google?

Category: Mac OS X Help

I'm darn concerned! Every time I start up my Apple Safari browser, I find that the program has remembered every search I've done, whether from the Google search box or when I'm actually on the Google home page. What the heck? How can I disable this "feature" and regain my privacy?

Question answered on February 20, 2006 at 04:04 PM :: Comments to date: 77




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