At the MacWorld’s 2008 Keynote, Steve Jobs showed up one of the new features of the latest firmware update for the iPod Touch and iPhone (version 1.1.3). This feature is “webclips”: now you can add internet shortcuts to any website or area of a webpage (after making a zoom and adding a webclip). Once you’re done, you see an icon representing the website you “bookmarked”.

Here’s a trick on how to set an icon for the iPod Touch/iPhone to recognize.
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A selection of tips for Safari 3 beta aimed at the average Safari user as well as more experienced users. Includes undocumented features that can be enabled through the Terminal such as the Web Inspector and the pie chart progress indicator. Also explains some more well known features such as merging windows and bookmarking all open tabs.

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What is CosmoPod? A Safari perfectly integrated Cocoa Application which is able to download any embedded content like Flash, DivX, WMV and Real Media from any website!

The application is so easy to use: after downloading the video, it converts it on the flow to the iPod, iPhone or Apple TV format and then automatically adds it to your iTunes, making synchronization easier than ever with your favorite device!

My experience with CosmoPod is just after the jump!
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This is the ultimate and best plug in for Safari, it’s not a standalone application, it just adds a panel to your Safari with many many many useful functions like ad banner blockin, full screen navigation etc..

You’ll find the huge full list of features after the jump…

Download Saft here.

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A very cool Safari plugin! Once installed, it just creates a new tab each time you double click on the Safari’s tab bar and if you ever have a URL in your clipboard it just opens it when you click twice on the tab bar.

Free, easy and useful!

Download Twicebar!

Updates for OS X:

• Safari 3.0.3 is available: is recommended for all users and improves its security and stability.
  
• Security Update 2007-007 (with security update 006): is recommended for all users and improves the security of the following components (read more)

I discovered this cool function accidentally, you can actually increase a text field area with a click, here’s a video I made to illustrate this:

You can change the Safari progress bar from the “classic” location bar filled from left to right to a pie chart progress indicator like this one:

This trick only works on Safari 3 beta.

Open terminal in Applications>Utilities and type (or copy/paste):
defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugUsePieProgressIndicator -bool true

If you want to revert to the old progress bar, go to terminal once again and type:
defaults delete com.apple.Safari DebugUsePieProgressIndicator

Here’s what you can do with Safari 3 beta’s tab:
* drag and drop them (to reorganize them)
* drag a single tab down to open it in a new window