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Safari has some innovative privacy features. First, it’s possible to easily erase Safari’s entire browsing history by clicking on History > Clear History. Safari can also be reset by clicking on Safari > Reset Safari. In Safari 3, it’s possible to choose individual features to reset in Safari, such as “Clear Google Searches,” or “Empty the cache.” These are useful options, but what if you only want to remove one or two webpages from your browsing history?

I know what you’re probably thinking. “What kind of creep needs to hide their web browsing history?” Besides looking at naughty images, there actually are good reasons for removing a webpage from your browsing history. Maybe you’re researching a medical condition you’d like to keep private. Perhaps you’re gift shopping and don’t want someone to ruin their birthday surprise. Or more likely, you opened a page with questionable content by accident, and you’d like to remove it from your history.

Fortunately, it’s very easy to do this. In Safari, click on History > Show All History. Alternately, you can click on the bookmark icon in Safari’s upper left corner, under the back / forward arrows and browse down the list to the “History” header.

Once you’re looking at the list of web pages you’ve viewed, you can simply go down the list, click once on the page title, then click delete. The individual page will be removed from Safari’s history.

Note that you can choose to Browse Privately with Safari so you don’t need to go back and purge your history. Simply launch Safari, then click Safari > Private Browsing. In this mode, Safari won’t save any cookies, passwords, or pages viewed.

_Dear Friends,_

Welcome to a big change in Kibbles & Bytes, the first HTML version of our flagship weekly newsletter. We have been working on this for some time and I am pleased to bring you our enhanced newsletter. This will allow us to provide easier navigation, easier to read text and of course, the ability to send pictures as well. There is a link to the plain text version of Kibbles & Bytes at the top for those that would prefer the “classic” version. As always, we would greatly appreciate your feedback on the style and content in addition to your suggestions for content and improvements!

School has started and I’ve noticed that many of the maple trees are already turning color. Grace, Emily, Tony and I took a ride on Sunday on an important mission: ride to Maine and eat a lobster. We all noticed that the fall foliage seems to be starting and will be early this year. The big maple by my garage is bright red. If you are planning to come to New England for the colors, I’d come early! I stopped at a farm on the way home to get some sweet corn, and when the farmer saw my Cubs hat and shirt (he was clearly a Red Sox fan), we joked around about baseball as I selected some good ears. The Cubs have the best record in baseball at the end of August, and their best record since the last time they went to the world series in 1945.

If you are looking for a new MacBook Pro, I encourage you to check out the values that we have on a couple of models of the 17-inch MacBook Pro. These are the best prices we have ever had for a large screen laptop. We also have great bargains on iMacs and MacBooks running right now. Apple’s market share keeps skyrocketing and while you might think that it’s the iPod and iPhone driving Apple’s business these days, the little-known secret is that it is the Mac that is driving the business. There were a couple of data points this week that point out just how much ground Apple is gaining. One research firm reported that Apple achieved a 10.4% market-share of the home market at the end of the first quarter this year, compared to a 5.4% market share at the end of the first quarter of 2006. Another industry research group reported that Mac use in businesses rose from 1.1% in October 2006 to 4.5% in June of this year. Keep in mind that every 1% of market share gained is millions of dollars in sales!