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Safari 4: Hell in a handbasket (or a disk image)

by Adam Fisher-Cox on Feb 24, 2009 at 05:46 PM

I’m sitting here, typing away at this article in Firefox. I currently have Mail, iChat, and Twitterriffic open. They are all connected to the internet. Oh, there’s a new batch of tweets! And a new mail message! And in comes a new chat with a link to a funny video.… Continue Reading »

Palm Pre…the long-lost iPhone killer?

by Aaron Kraus on Jan 9, 2009 at 11:54 PM

Enter the Pre (pre what? you might ask). The Palm Pre. Palm’s newest smartphone, just announced today at CES, is slated to be the next iPhone killer: a smartphone that does all the same things the iPhone does, and then some. It features a multi-touch screen, but unlike the iPhone… Continue Reading »

Microsoft to embrace WebKit in IE?

by Aaron Kraus on Nov 7, 2008 at 08:41 AM

Could Steve Ballmer get any more confusing? He laments the lack of openness in the iPhone OS and Google’s Android, will swear up one side and down the other that proprietary walled gardens are better, but then publicly contemplates an open future for Microsoft’s flagship browser! At the Power to… Continue Reading »

Google founder Brin: Lack of Chrome for Mac “embarrassing”

by Stephen Chinnadorai on Sep 4, 2008 at 12:15 PM

When Google Chrome Beta 1 was released earlier this week, Mac users were shocked by the fact that it was Windows-only. Google, with a reputation for creating their apps for all platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux), had not yet released a Mac version of their web browser. In an interview with… Continue Reading »

Apple seeds Safari 4 to developers

by Mark Rowland on Jun 10, 2008 at 03:45 PM

Amidst all the Mac OS X 10.6 Hype, Apple has officially seeded Safari 4 to developers. This new version focuses on performance and stability. Using the Squirrelfish program with WebKit, Apple says Safari 4 will be “the fastest implementation of JavaScript ever, increasing performance by 53 percent, making Web 2.0… Continue Reading »

Evidence of Mac OS X v10.6?

by Mark Rowland on Jun 3, 2008 at 03:19 PM

WebKit,  the engine behind Safari and all of Mac’s other HTML needs, seems to be looking fairly far into the future.  It looks as if they’re anticipating the imminent release of Mac OS X v10.6 (or whatever it may be called, details on that in a bit).  Flickr user factoryjoe,… Continue Reading »

Safari 3.1.1 is now available via Software Update

by Josh Holat on Apr 16, 2008 at 05:21 PM

Just after my recent Safari rant, Apple publishes an update.  This version, 3.1.1, fixes 39MB worth of security issues and bugs, one of which was the one that allowed a hacker to get full access of a MacBook Air at a recent PWN2OWN conference.  This update deals with four specific… Continue Reading »

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