Renominável

While orga­ni­zing my book­marks, I noti­ced that, unlike Fire­fox, Safari does not sup­port sepa­ra­tors “out-of-the-box”. This post shows you a wor­ka­round and also how to down­load You­tube videos without any addi­ti­o­nal software.

Sepa­ra­tors for Bookmarks

I actu­ally found how to do this on my own. I was tired of having to cre­ate a new fol­der every time I wan­ted to group some book­marks, so I thought: “If I cre­ate a new book­mark with a name like ‘—’ and give it a null address, i should have a visual sepa­ra­tor”. So I copied one of my book­marks, chan­ged its name to ‘—’ and its address to a blackspace.

It didn’t work imme­di­a­tely, since Safari kept retur­ning the pre­vi­ous bookmark’s address. “So the address can’t be blank, hun? What if I made look like it had something on it without actu­ally retur­ning something?” Bingo! So, all I had to do was wri­ting ‘javascript:void();’ on the address.

It wor­ked even bet­ter than expec­ted! In fact, Safari par­sed this “fake-bookmark” into an actual separator.

EDIT: For auto­ma­tic par­sing of this “fake-bookmarks” you need to have Glims installed.

Sum­ming it up, all you have to do is copy an exis­ting book­mark, change it’s name to ‘—’ (or ‘|’ if you want a ver­ti­cal sepa­ra­tor) and change its address to ‘javascript:void();’

Down­lo­a­ding You­tube videos without any addi­ti­o­nal software

I used to have a third-party soft­ware to down­load videos from You­tube (and others like it), named Vide­o­box. Howe­ver, it wasn’t exac­tly what I wan­ted: not only it didn’t play well with Safari but also insis­ted on caching every sin­gle video I wat­ched, was­ting “my pre­ci­ous” hard-drive space. In the end, I sim­ply trashed it.

Ever since that day, I’ve been sear­ching for a decent, mini­mal and Safari-friendly soft­ware that could do the same thing. I ended up fin­ding something bet­ter: If you open your acti­vity win­dow (alt+cmd+A) and expand the line cor­res­pon­ding to the you­tube page where the video you want to down­load is, then all you got to do is search for the lar­gest item (it’s usu­ally the only with file size in MB) and dou­ble click it. Safari will down­load the you­tube video you wan­ted in .flv for­mat, which can be ope­ned in Quicktime.