“There are many little-known tricks and tips you can use to improve your experience with Apple’s Safari browser, I’ve selected just six you may not have seen before,” Jonny Evans writes for Computerworld.
“Trying to get a map for an address? You don’t need to copy and paste the address into the search bar to find a map, all you need do is highlight the address text and right-click, then select ‘Look Up…’ from the menu that appears,” Evans writes. “You’ll get a contextual Maps interface that enables you to do various things, including opening the full version of Maps or getting driving directions right there within Safari.”
More tips in the full article here.
These are surprisingly good.
Excellent! But, why are we still using Google maps and not Apple’s maps on our Mac computers. Yes, the Windows PC idiots have Safari. Can’t we offer the Mac users a Apple based map and the others could grab one from the Apple’s cloud servers or grey out the map option for them?
Apple, stop handing Google what they do not deserve! I would not send any traffic to Google from any Apple products or devices. Start cutting these leaches off. Now!!
Why would anyone want to use apple maps, google maps is much better , accurate and have street view. Apple maps is disgusting and inaccurate
Yep, GooGoo’s maps are indeed better for snooping.
Safari does use Apple Maps.
Only on apple machines, in Safari for windows, it is goo goo all the way
Safari for Windows hasn’t been updated in two years. It’s dead.
Perhaps you missed the headline, which is “6 Safari secrets for OS X Mavericks”.
Referring to OS X and specifically to Mavericks makes it pretty obvious that the article is not talking about Safari on PCs.
I use a mix of Apple, Google and Bing maps. Bing’s Birds Eye View can be very good as you can view things from all sides, some of the images are much higher quality than the other offerings. I really like Apple’s 3D renderings, and a native app is really cool on a big screen Mac. None of them is better than another in every way.
This is one of the first lists of “tips” I’ve seen in a long time that has actual useful tips I hadn’t known about. Kudos to the author.
And isn’t it fun discovering these useful easter eggs Apple puts in their software?
——RM