Robin Williams Cool Mac Apps. A guide to iLife '05, .Mac, and more.

2017-07-07 02:10:07

As you may already know, you can press on the Back or Forward button to show a menu of the web sites you've already visited since you opened the browser. Choose a site in the list to open it in Safari.

Press on the Back or Forward button to show a pop-up menu of the web pages you've visited, showing web page titles.

But did you know that if you hold the Option key down while you press on either the Back or Forward button, the pop-up menu shows the actual web addresses of the pages you've visited?

Option-press on the Back or Forward button to see the actual web addresses in the menu.

Access web sites from the Address Book menu

If your Address Book (see Chapter 16) info contains web site addresses, you can access those web sites directly from the Bookmarks Bar. The next page explains how to put the Address Book menu in the Bookmarks Bar.

Choose a site from the History menu

To choose from a list of the sites you visited within the past week, click the History menu. If you had Private Browsing turned on (see page 374), the History menu contains no visited sites.

To put the Address Book menu in your Bookmarks Bar

1.	Open the Safari Preferences (go to the Safari menu and choose "Preferences…").
2.	Click the "Bookmarks" button in the toolbar to open the pane shown below.
3.	After "Bookmarks Bar:" checkmark "Include Address Book."

When you choose "Address Book" in the Bookmarks menu, a submenu shows links to web sites that you entered in Address Book.

If the contact information in your Address Book doesn't contain a web address field (called "home page" in Address Book), you can add one.

You can also drag the web address icon from Safari's address bar into this "home page" field.

1.	Open Address Book and select a contact.
2.	Click the "Edit" button.
3.	From the Card menu choose "Add Field," and from the submenu choose "URL" (Uniform Resource Locatorthe technical term for a web address). The "home page" item appears in the Address Book contact information. Type a web address, then click the "Edit" button to set the changes.