You may have heard that a VPN makes the internet more secure and private with public Wi-Fi and even at home. Do you really need to pay for and install a VPN? No, Opera is an alternative.
We all face increasing workloads and busy social lives, so if you are not managing to get everything done that needs doing, use these 4 Safari extensions to increase your productivity.
Web of Trust (WOT) helps you avoid the scams, malware and bad websites on the internet. It is a free browser extension for the Apple Mac (and PC) that alerts you to bad sites and threats.
Everything you do and everywhere you go on the internet, someone somewhere is tracking your activities. Here’s how to browse privately and stop the trackers from watching what you do online.
When you are working on your Mac or browsing the web, you often need to store bits of information. One way is with Apple Notes or Stickies, but Google Keep on the desktop offers advantages (updated).
Although Safari is the natural web browser to use on the Apple Mac, some people prefer to use Google Chrome. When it comes to printing in Chrome, you can choose the print system to use.
As you open tabs in browsers on your Apple Mac, do you realise that other people might be able to see them? Yes, it is true and it is an important issue that you need to be aware of.
Do you have the status bar at the bottom of Safari's browser window visible? It shows useful information like the destination of links. Use it to see how keys modify the action of clicking them.
Sometimes you are locked out of websites for no good reason. Some are blocking all EU residents because they can't handle GDPR and public Wi-Fi is often over restrictive too. Here's a solution.
Apple can be very slow to add obvious features sometimes, but at last, one I have wanted for years has been added to Safari and you can now sort your website bookmarks!
You might think you know everything about Safari, Apple’s web browser on the Mac, but there is more to it than meets the eye and here are some features you probably have not yet discovered.
The Apple Mac is safer on the internet than some computers and it is immune to many threats, but it is not completely safe and there are still risks. Quad 9 DNS reduces those risks.
Safari has a Picture in Picture mode that lets you place videos on the desktop. It doesn’t work for all videos, but the PiPifier Safari extension makes it work with almost everything.
The speed of modern internet connections could not have been imagined 15 years ago. Back then, download managers were popular utilities, but do you need one today? Sometimes you do.
In this article I take a look at a new privacy setting in Safari that appears to be turned off by default, and how to manage and crush the many cookies that are stored on the computer.
If you have NordVPN, and a lot of people do, there is a clever Chrome extension that saves you having to run the VPN software. For everyone else, get a web browser with a built in VPN.
I recently looked at the new facility in macOS High Sierra that enables you to share files on iCloud. Can you access the sharing features on the iCloud website with just a web browser? Yes!
Safari is a fine web browser on the Apple Mac, but it cannot compete with Chrome when it comes to extensions. Momentum gives Chrome tabs beautiful makeover and adds productivity features.
In a recent survey more people use Chrome for browsing the web on the Apple Mac than Safari. So how do you transfer bookmarks or, better still, sync them between browsers? Here is the solution.
Safari has two menus that contain main useful functions, but they are hidden by default. Here’s how to make them visible and use them to emulate devices, stop video ads playing and more.
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