Safari for iOS lets users request the desktop version of certain websites that display separate mobile versions by default. You may know how to request the desktop site using the iOS 9 share menu, but here’s an even faster way that’s hidden right in the Safari address bar.
How to Easily View the Desktop Version of a Website in iOS 9 Safari
Some websites offer dedicated mobile versions that are designed for the smaller screens on smartphones and tablets. But sometimes these mobile versions don’t have all the information or options we need. Here’s how to request and view the full desktop layout of a website in Safari for iOS 9.
Turn Your Favorite Websites Into Chrome Custom Search Engines
The address bar in Google Chrome is the central location for not only navigating to known URLs, but also for conducting quick Web searches. Normally, typing a query into Chrome’s address bar will initiate a Web search with your search engine of choice (Google, by default). But you can also configure Chrome to save site-specific search shortcuts, which let you instantly search within a given site without having to visit that site first. Here’s how to set it up.
How to Save a Webpage as a Single Image
There are plenty of ways to capture the content of a website — saving an article as a PDF, or copying and pasting the article text, for example — but sometimes you want to capture the entire site, design and all, and traditional methods don’t do a great job of that. Here’s how to use a free tool to capture an entire website as a single image with one click.
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How to Open Links in the Background in iOS 8 Safari
Apple has tried to make mobile Web browsing in iOS as capable as possible, but there’s still one setting that Apple leaves off by default that could greatly improve your mobile browsing experience. Read on to learn how to configure Safari in iOS 8 and earlier to open links in the background, which lets you queue up links for later review without interrupting your current browsing session.
Track the Progress of the Internet in Real Time
Part productivity motivator and part social experiment, The Internet in Real-Time is a very cool live look at how the Web grows from second-to-second. The folks at PennyStocksLab created the tool to track 23 online metrics, counting the number of Tweets, the number of emails sent, the number of hours of Netflix video watched, and so on.
How to Configure Websites to Launch Automatically at Login in Mac OS X
Most people like to check a specific set of websites each day, such as local news, weather, sports scores, and stocks. Instead of bookmarking these sites and then manually launching them each morning, why not configure your Mac to launch them for you when you log in? Here’s how to have websites launch automatically at login in OS X.
See the Evolution of the Web with 20 Years of the Microsoft Homepage
With Microsoft on the verge of a new era, it’s worth taking a look back at the history of the company. One such historical exercise is a look at the evolution of the company’s website, and now a Speaker Deck user has compiled a slideshow of the past 20 years of Microsoft.com to let us do exactly that.
How to Edit the Hosts File on Mac OS X
Most Mac users never need to access the hosts file, but this powerful file can let you do some neat things when it comes to mapping website hostnames. Here are two ways to edit your hosts file using TextEdit and the UNIX nano text editor.
Check a Website’s Status with ‘Down for Everyone or Just Me’
A TekRevue reader recently asked us about an odd situation: a website wouldn’t load on his work computer but worked fine at home. There was no error while at work, just a message from his browser that the site couldn’t be found. At first he thought the website in question was simply unreliable and would go down often during the day. After some investigation, however, he learned that an issue with caching and DNS at his office’s Internet provider was…