34 articles tagged Safari.
Does getting those recommended 8 hours of sleep feel like an impossible challenge? If you regularly use your Mac in the evenings, then blue light might be to blame! There’s plenty of evidence to suggest that blue light interferes with the body’s natural circadian rhythms, with a recent study suggesting that exposure to blue light […]
Apple manage to pack a lot into their Safari web browser, including a dedicated Reader Mode, the ability to block push notifications, and a whole bunch of privacy and security settings. However, Safari does lack an effective way to import and export bookmarks, particularly when compared to other modern web browsers. Although there is an […]
Do you share your Mac with friends or family? Or perhaps you suspect a nosey roommate might be snooping around your Mac when you’re not at home? If you’re worried about other people seeing your web browser history, then you could delete this history at the end of every browsing session, but this requires you […]
No matter how big your Mac’s memory, inevitably you’re going to download enough apps and create enough files, to fill up that memory! If you’re getting low memory warnings, or your Mac is running more slowly than before, then you can often free up a tonne of space, by deleting unwanted apps. While your first […]
You don’t have to reach for your mobile every time you need to make a phone call. If you have an iPhone running iOS 8 or higher, then you can make and receive phone calls from many of macOS’ built-in apps, including FaceTime, Contacts, Safari, Spotlight and Mail. When you place or take a call […]
MacKeeper is a collection of utilities, apps and services that promise to help keep your Mac clean and protected from malware, but it’s also a controversial topic amongst the Apple community. If you Google “Is MacKeeper” then the suggested results make it very clear that people aren’t entirely convinced that MacKeeper is a legitimate application. […]
Regardless of whether you’re a Chrome, Safari, or Firefox fan, all web browsers are changing, all the time. You may have noticed that when you visit certain websites, you encounter a popup asking whether that website can send you notifications. If you click ‘Allow’ then this website will gain the power to push notifications to […]
Even if your Mac is protected with anti-malware and anti-virus software, and you make a point of keeping your operating system and applications up to date, there’s always new security threats to worry about. Cryptocurrency mining is the latest threat that can transform your Mac into an algorithm-solving machine that generates cryptocurrency coins for website […]
Being tracked by online advertisers is something we all worry about. There’s something seriously unsettling about searching for a product once, only for that exact same product to suddenly crop up in every single advert you encounter across the web! According to Freedom to Tinker, advertisers have a discovered a new way to track your […]
It’s pretty common practice for websites to store cookies on your computer, and despite their bad reputation some cookies can actually improve your browsing experience. Cookies are how websites identify repeat visitors, allowing them to deliver a version of their website that’s optimised for each visitor. For example, if you tell a website to display […]
Does it feel like you’re being bombarded by adverts every single time you log onto the Internet? Very few people actually enjoy adverts, but sometimes it feels like websites are deliberately trying to annoy you with intrusive, excessive advertisements. Some websites may even cram so many adverts onto a single page that it affects how […]
Concentration can be a difficult thing on the Internet – especially when websites insist on bombarding you with adverts, popups and auto-playing videos. To help Safari users focus, Apple recently introduced ‘Reader Mode,’ a new feature that extracts the text and images from an article and then displays them in an overlay that slides over […]
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