Use a 'speed dial' homepage in Safari
Just like with the Opera web browser, it is now possible to have nine of your most-used sites as a homepage in Safari, quickly accessible by pressing numbers 1 to 9. But unlike speed dial on Opera, Safari Dial is an online app.The sites are presented with screenshots of the pages. No registration is necessary, and your unique homepage can be accessed from multiple computers. This online app also works fine on Firefox (and probably other browsers), and makes a good alternative to Firefox's Speed Dial extension.[robg adds: I use Fast Dial with Firefox, and find it quite useful. For those using Safari, this service seems pretty safe -- there's no registration needed, and you access the start page via a unique code.]
published on Monday, the 13. October 2008, macosxhints
Onlife - An application usage and tracking tool
The macosxhints Rating: [Score: 7 out of 10] Developer: Edison Thomaz/ Product page Price: Free This is the Pick of the Week for the week of August 21st This week's selection is a bit odd, as it's something that I don't actually use regularly. However, I find the concept quite interesting, and keep coming back to it on occasion, so I thought it worth sharing. Onlife is a bit tricky to describe, so I'm going to borrow the description from the program's homepage: "Onlife is an application for the Mac OS X that observes your every interaction with apps such as Safari, Mail and iChat and then creates a personal shoebox of all the web pages you visit, emails you read, documents you write and much more." Basica...
published on Friday, the 8. September 2006, macosxhints