Safari usage in Snow Leopard and Internet interface

Snow Leopard operating system introduces a brand-new version of the Safari web browser. Safari, now at version 4, introduces significant speed improvements and takes advantage of the latest hardware found on the new Apple computers, resulting in a better Internet experience for you, the user. Because of the new improvements to Safari, you should experience fewer crashes and an overall more stable web browser. Let’s explore how Safari can make your Internet experience better.

The toolbar

The toolbar is the top-most portion of the Safari interface where you’ll do most of your site navigation in Safari.

The Address bar

1. Launch Safari on your computer by clicking the Safari icon in the Dock.

2. When you launch Safari, it displays the default Home page defined in the Safari preferences.

3. Choose Safari > Preferences. Click the General button at the top of the window, then type www.digitalclassroombooks.com in the Home page text field to set the new default Home page. Close the preferences window by pressing the Close button

4. From the History menu, choose Home to display the current default Home page.

5. You can navigate to any web site by typing it in the Address bar at the top of the Safari interface. Type www.apple.com/macosx in the Address bar and press Return on your keyboard to display the new web page.

6. Press the Back button to go back in the list of web pages that you’ve visited.

7. Press the Forward button to go forward in the list of web pages that you’ve visited.

Google search

Safari contains a built-in text field to search using the Google search engine. Instead of first navigating to the Google web page, you can simply initiate your search directly from the Safari interface.

1. In the Google search text field in the upper right corner, type Snow Leopard operating system and then press Return on your keyboard. The Google search results are immediately displayed.

2. The search for Snow Leopard operating system displays some relevant information about Snow Leopard operating system the operating system, but also displays results about the animal. Let’s refine that by typing Snow Leopard operating system + os x. Because this search is more specific, your search yields only results having to do with Snow Leopard operating system the operating system.

A more specific search yields better results.

3. Click the X at the right of the Google search text field to clear the text of the last search you performed.

Bookmarks

Bookmarks are saved web site locations that you can store for later access in Safari. When you browse the Internet, you often arrive at a web page that you may want to visit later or even on a regular basis. You can bookmark that web page for later viewing.

1. Press the Show All Bookmarks button on the left side of the toolbar at the top of your screen. A new screen appears, showing different collections of bookmarks on the left, starting with History. History is simply the history of sites that you’ve visited, organized by each day. By default, Safari stores up to one month of web site visits in the History collection.

2. Click the Bookmarks Bar entry under the Collections section on the left side of the Safari window. The Bookmarks Bar directly correlates to the Bookmarks listed at the bottom of Safari’s toolbar.

3. In the Address bar, type www.digitalclassroombooks.com and press Return on your keyboard.

4. To add a web site to your Bookmarks Bar, drag the icon to the left of the web address and drag it below the Address bar. The existing bookmarks in the Bookmarks bar move to make room for the new bookmark. Release your mouse when your cursor is at the desired position.

Click and hold the icon to the left of the web address and drag it into the Bookmarks bar.

5. A dialog box appears, asking you to name your bookmark. Type Digital Classroom in the text field and press OK. The new bookmark is added to the Bookmarks Bar. Naming the bookmark.

6. Press the Show All Bookmarks button again; notice that the Digital Classroom bookmark is listed at the bottom of the screen in the list of bookmarks, as well as in the Bookmarks Bar.

7. Type www.agitraining.com in the Address bar and press Return on your keyboard to display the web site.

8. From the Bookmarks menu at the top of the screen, choose Add Bookmark. In the resulting dialog box, type AGI Training and choose Bookmarks Menu from the dropdown menu. Press Add.

9. Click the Bookmarks menu again, and you now see the AGI Training bookmark that you added in step 8. The bookmark is now available from the Bookmarks menu.

10. Press the Show All Bookmarks button again, and you see the AGI Training bookmark when you click the Bookmarks menu collection on the left side of the screen.

11. You can further organize your bookmarks by putting them inside of bookmark folders. With the Show All Bookmarks screen displayed and the Bookmarks Menu category highlighted, click the rightmost plus sign at the bottom of the screen.

12. A new folder is created, with the name highlighted so that you can type a new name for the folder. Type Training and Learning and then press Return on your keyboard.

13. Drag the AGI Training bookmark on top of the Training and Learning folder, and then release your mouse button. The AGI Training bookmark is now an item within the Training and Learning folder.

14. Under the Bookmarks menu, choose Training and Learning; you see the AGI training bookmark listed as a sub-item of the Training and Learning folder. Select the AGI Training bookmark to display the web site.

Bookmarks make quick work of accessing frequently visited web sites on your computer. Bookmark folders make it easy to organize those bookmarks into logical categories for fast retrieval of web pages.