The typical AutoFill function in Safari will
allow you to fill in IDs and passwords to websites when you login to them. For instance, here at Twitter I can click
in the login fields here and I can select from multiple logins I’ve got and log on with
that. But that’s only one of many functions. If we go into Safari Preferences and go to
AutoFill we can see that you have four different types of AutoFill. The one I want to talk about right now is
using info from my Contacts. So how does that work? Well, that works in a situation where you’re
not logging into a site but you’re still asked to enter something like your email address
or your name. Now a really good example is the MacMost website
itself. I don’t have user accounts in MacMost. Anybody can leave a comment. But when you do leave a comment I ask that
you fill in your name and email. This is useful when I want to respond to you
directly maybe if your comment is off topic of I feel it’s better if I just email you
back as a response rather than responding here. So I ask you for your name and email. The email is not included on the site and
your name is put there with the comment. Now these can be Autofilled as well. The way it works in Safari is really easy. If you click to type into the field here you
get this little person icon. You click on it and you get a menu where you
can select a name. The same thing here for email. You click and you see you can select an email
address. You can also hit this thing where it says
AutoFill. What AutoFill does is it fills in both of
these fields. Whereas if I were to select an email address
it would fill in this email field but not fill in the name field. So you have ways to quickly AutoFill your
name and your email address without having to type the entire thing from scratch. Where does it get this information from? Well you may have noticed that under Preferences,
AutoFill there is this Edit button. This Edit button will actually open up the
Contacts app and take you directly to your card in the Contacts app. If you’re using Contacts, or even if you’re
not, you are going to have a card here that is your card. You can alter it if it’s in the wrong one. Under Card you can say Make This My Card. You can see this is already My Card here. This is your identification information. So there’s my name and there are my email
addresses. Now this only works if you have at least one
email address filled in. So you can see I’ve got two email addresses
here both using the same name. That’s what we saw there. There’s home and work. I can add more email addresses. Hit Done here and, of course, if I’m coming
into this from Contacts I would see it here and I would hit Edit to actually edit it. But that Edit button actually takes me directly
there. Now when I go and fill out this field here
you can see there’s that new one. It appears so I can enter that in. You can see I still just have these two here,
home and work. If I hit the Customize button here I can actually
go and I can see all three of these and select the one I want. There we go. So you have these options and it’s really
handy to not to have to type your entire name or type your email address every time you
are asked for them on the web even if it’s not something where you’re logging in.