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Apple Adds iCloud Safari Tab Syncing to OS X Mountain Lion Preview 2
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iOS already syncs Bookmarks... and I don't see why you would want History. And I am all for getting rid of 1Password for iPad/iPhone.
Portability between Apple devices such as iPhone, iPad, etc
This will indeed be a great feature. I have been waiting for this for some time. This is particularly relevant for Apple users as brand loyalty seems to be strong in the case of Apple. Most of us use multiple Apple devices and seamless browser synchronising will indeed of a great help to all of us.
This will indeed be a great feature. I have been waiting for this for some time. This is particularly relevant for Apple users as brand loyalty seems to be strong in the case of Apple. Most of us use multiple Apple devices and seamless browser synchronising will indeed of a great help to all of us.
I very specifically keep different tabs open on different devices. I also have a lot of tabs open on a lot of different devices. With this feature, I'll end up with hundreds of more tabs open over all my devices. Maybe even a thousand in total. I don't even want to think about how much memory that'll use up. But again, there's a reason I have different web pages open on different devices. Server related stuff on servers. Media related stuff on media boxes. Mobile stuff on mobile devices. The most overlap would be between my two desktops and laptop, but far less than you'd think.
Definitely getting turned off, first thing. It would be nice if I could open up more tabs on iOS though, especially since I'm using iOS for email exclusively now, and there's always links to click in emails.
Definitely getting turned off, first thing. It would be nice if I could open up more tabs on iOS though, especially since I'm using iOS for email exclusively now, and there's always links to click in emails.
Some people are weird about their tabs and open windows. I've got this friend of mine that has 40-50 different browser windows open at any given moment. What he does is find an article he likes, minimizes it, then goes to do the same thing for something else. Once he gets to a point where he has too many windows open, he'll go back and start reading through old windows, closing them up, while opening up new windows off the links from whatever he just read.
It's madness, I tells ya. MADNESS!
Not sure what the point of your rant was, considering you're not forced to use this feature. I hope you also realize that you represent a very fringe demographic (1000 tabs? really? WTF?) and that the vast majority of people will only ever have a handful of tabs open at most at any one time.
Now that is pretty neat! Might just be neat enough to get me back to using Safari on Mac once again...
Although like others I am likely to have a bunch of windows/tabs open at any one time. Would be great if you could select just one Safari window to sync with iCloud... I'm sure they can manage that.
Although like others I am likely to have a bunch of windows/tabs open at any one time. Would be great if you could select just one Safari window to sync with iCloud... I'm sure they can manage that.
You do understand that it doesn't open the tabs for you? It's just a list of links that you can press on to open in the current browser that you're in.
Let's say that you have two Safari (A and B) on two Macs. You have 5 opened tabs in Safari A and then you decided to open Safari B on the second Mac. Safari B will start up with an empty tab but if you want to view one of those opened tabs from Safari A, you press on the iCloud button and it'll show you a list, you select one of them, it'll open in a new tab.
Do the math. Two computers with 50 tabs open each, all unique web addresses. Syncing would mean 100 on one computer, 100 on the other, meaning 200 tabs total across two computers. Add in a third computer with another 50 tabs, it goes up to 450 total. I have more than three devices running Safari, and some of them have more than 50 unique tabs, so yeah, it'll add up fast.
If that's how it works, then I can probably live with that, though it's still completely unnecessary for me since different types of devices being used for different tasks don't all need to have the same pages open. The article could have been a lot more clear, since up to this point syncing meant syncing. As in, create a new address book entry on this computer, it suddenly shows up on another. Take a picture with an iPhone, it shows up on your computers. Syncing is not "display a list and let you manually move stuff over".
So, don't turn it on. It'll be optional like Safari's bookmarks.
And yes, it is syncing because it is a list that's being synced from your other devices. It is not pulling data out of nowhere.
By that metric, an FTP client is syncing when it shows you the contents of an FTP server.
I'm not trying to be difficult, and as I said, I'll just turn it off and not worry about it, but the article could have been more clear. Of course, it's been updated since to make it (slightly) more informative.
I'm not trying to be difficult, and as I said, I'll just turn it off and not worry about it, but the article could have been more clear. Of course, it's been updated since to make it (slightly) more informative.
Good point!
You're absolutely right.
To protect evreyone's nose Parental Control was created - even for juniors above 21.
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Besides, I think juniors would wisely chhose to install the panic button instead, not to be caught off guard.
In the end, with or without icloud button juniors, parents, seniores enployers and employees will eventually get what they want.
You're absolutely right.
To protect evreyone's nose Parental Control was created - even for juniors above 21.
.Besides, I think juniors would wisely chhose to install the panic button instead, not to be caught off guard.
In the end, with or without icloud button juniors, parents, seniores enployers and employees will eventually get what they want.