If you’re looking to make a bookmark in your Dock that will bring up all of your bookmarks, there is a way to do it with Safari.
First, you may not know it, but you can enter bookmarks:// in the Safari address bar and it will bring up all of your Bookmarks, just as if you [...]

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If you’re a fan of Google’s online Office Suite and you’re a Firefox user you’ve probably already heard of Google Gears. The plugin has been available for Firefox for a while now, and basically what it does is allow you to access certain Google services (like the Reader, and Docs for example) offline. [...]

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Notice something different about the above, Safari menu bar? If you look in between Bookmarks and Window, you’ll see a menu that most of you, probably don’t have. It’s called Develop and in my opinion, it’s one of the coolest features that Safari has.
In order to activate this menu, hit command + , to bring [...]

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This problem has been driving me nuts for years, and I’m slightly ashamed to admit I just realized it has an extremely simple fix.
It’s always bugged me that I could tab through every form field except checkboxes and radio buttons.
If you have no idea what I’m talking about let me explain. When filling out a [...]

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Gizmodo recently posted out that keyboard localization and accents in SMS messages can lead to bloodbaths, so I figured it would be useful to point out how easy it is to put accents over letters on the iPhone; maybe it will save some lives.
The default view when the iPhone keyboard pops up on your screen [...]

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As far as I know, this only works in Safari. If you want to open an address in a new tab without deselecting your current tab, type the address into the address bar, then press Command + Enter.
Holding Command will generally always open a link in a new window. This goes for clicking links and [...]

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Tabs are a very well-known and popular feature in nearly all web browsers. There are a couple methods to open new ones in Safari–my favorite is double-clicking on the tab bar (described here). To close tabs in Safari, one typically clicks on the little “x” at the left-hand side of the tab, presses Command-W, or [...]

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So maybe not hidden as much as not completely obvious, but Chris Pirillo pointed out an HTML document with a list of keyboard shortcuts for Safari:
Find it at: file:///Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Resources/Shortcuts.html

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Yesterday I hinted at a cool trick in my Customizing Safari with SafariStand post. This isn’t entirely useful, but it’s still extremely slick.
SafariStand comes with a QuickLook plugin that enables you to visualize your web history and bookmarks with Safari (sorry Firefox users, couldn’t figure this out for you):

Getting this working is fairly simple:

In the [...]

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Safari is a great browser, but we can always make it better. SafariStand offers dozens of extra features for customizing Safari, as if they were build right in.

Installing SafariStand can be a little tricky:

Install SIMBL, a framework for SafariStand
Download SafariStand. Please note there are 4 different versions for Safari 3.0/3.1 on Tiger and Leopard, so [...]

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