General interest message boards with discussion covering a very broad range of everyday topics.
| Surfin' Safari publishes WebKit Project Goals |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 12:00 pm |
| Tags: Firefox, Goals, Iphone, Safari, Webkit, Windows |
| Internet Tools, BlogsSurfin' Safari is the official blog of the team that works on WebKit, the open source rendering engine that powers Safari and just about any other app on Mac OS X that allows you to view web pages, such as NetNewsWire, iSale, RapidWeaver and many, many more. Heck, these days WebKit is going far beyond Mac OS X, as it's used |
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| iSale updates bring Safari 3 compatibility and over 200 templates |
| Published: July 28, 2007, 8:00 am |
| Tags: Auctions, Ebay, Isale, Safari 3, Safari3, Selling, Templates |
| if users installed the Safari 3 beta. Fortunately, a couple of recent updates have fixed those issues and added over 30 new templates to bring the grand total to more than 200 different auction templates, organized by category. With a wide variety of template styles, imagery and layouts, you'll be hard pressed to not find something that'll |
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| Merlin on TWiT 101: Moon over Google |
| Published: June 18, 2007, 6:06 am |
| Tags: Productivity, Elsewhere, Podcasts, Denise Howell, Facebook, Leo Laporte, Merlin Mann, Michael Moore, Safari, Sicko, Steve Gibson, Twit, Twit Tv, Wil Harris |
| WWDC conference announcing Safari for Windows, but no API. Apple has plugged several security flaws that were discovered in the Windows version of Safari. At WWDC, numerous new OSX Leopard features were unveiled. Steve Gillmor had a post called iPhonomics regarding the possibility of Google Gears coming to the iPhone. Linspire has made a deal |
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| Safari, meet Cover Flow |
| Published: July 28, 2007, 12:00 pm |
| Tags: Alittleoomph, Cover Flow, Coverflow, Eyecandy, Firefox, Flashy, Graphical, Safari, Visual |
| Flow functionality into Safari? You could browse updated versions of your bookmarks just like you browse your albums in iTunes. I'm not sure I'd implement it exactly the way he has (click the pic above to see a bigger version), as if I'm browsing my web visually, I'd rather more real estate was given to the pages themselves. But it's an |
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| An easy way to import NetNewsWire feeds into Safari |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 1:30 pm |
| Tags: Drag And Drop, Draganddrop, Feeds, Netnewswire, Nnw, Rss, Safari |
| feeds in a format that Safari could import (as RSS, not HTML links to real sites), I finally realized that either Brent Simmons and/or Apple have already done some of the heavy lifting. If you toggle Safari's Show All Bookmarks view from the Bookmarks menu (or simply use B), you can simply drag and drop one or multiple selected feeds |
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| The .Mac Reader RSS app for iPhone is awesome |
| Published: July 30, 2007, 3:30 pm |
| Tags: Mac, Mac Reader, Macreader, Dotmac, Rss, Safari |
| RSS headlines in a very Safari RSS-like fashion, and it seems to cache better than most web apps I've seen, as it offers lightning-fast response when moving from an individual article back to the main list of headlines and snippets. As a bonus, this .Mac Reader app doesn't appear to require you to be a .Mac member to use it, though since I |
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| Saft for Safari on MacBreak Minute |
| Published: August 2, 2007, 10:38 am |
| Tags: Apple Macs Os X, Productivity, Apple, Macs, Safari, Saft |
| I talked about a Safari plug-in I like a lot called Saft. MacBreak (iPod video) - MacBreak 84: Minute: Saft Although my short demo only covers bookmarking a set of tabs, Saft does way more. To quote the lovely and talented Jon Hicks: Saft is quite simply the vital extension for Safari. Its started life as a way |
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| Speech Recognition: Create speakable Safari bookmarks |
| Published: August 16, 2007, 9:00 am |
| Tags: Bookmarks, Mac Os X, Mac Tip, Safari, Speech Recognition |
| to launch bookmarks in Safari. I've never been one to talk at my computer, but I think speech recognition definitely has its uses. The guide over at Macworld is basically a stripped down version of Adam's guide to working with speech recognition in Firefox and Photoshop. Linux and Windows users, don't forget you can cat call to control |
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| iPlace: Image download helper for Safari |
| Published: August 21, 2007, 5:00 am |
| Tags: Downloading, Images, Iplace, Manager, Photos, Pictures, Plug Ins, Plug Ins, Plugins, Safari |
| as a SIMBL plug-in for Safari (including the 3.0 beta), iPlace allows you to specify multiple locations on your Mac for downloading images, but that's not all. It then gives you a contextual menu item when right-clicking an image or a web page that will allow you to instantly download any image to one of your specified locations, or - and |
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| Walmart Photos QuickUpload for Safari |
| Published: August 24, 2007, 4:00 am |
| Tags: Photo, Safari, Walmart |
| the QuickUpload plugin for Safari. If you download and install it (I've only tested it with Safari 2), it will allow you to select and upload an indefinite number of photos much more easily. So what I do is export the photos I want to print from Aperture to a folder on my Desktop, then select that folder with the QuickUploader and let it do its |
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| TUAW Tip: Open more than 8 windows at once in iPhone Safari |
| Published: August 26, 2007, 10:00 am |
| Tags: Hacks, Safari, Screens |
| 8 windows at once in iPhone Safari. Here's how it works: After opening 8 windows, quit Safari. To do this, press and hold Home for 4-8 seconds until Safari quits and you return to your home screen. Next, tap on Weather, wait for the screen to load and tap on the Y! icon at the bottom left. This opens a new screen in Safari. Repeat the |
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| Inquisitor updates, and is doomed? |
| Published: August 26, 2007, 10:30 am |
| Tags: Davewatanabe, Free, Inputmanagers, Inquisitor, Leopard, Plugins, Safari, V3 0v43 |
| a bee-you-tiful Safari plugin that allows you to get instant, Spotlight-esque search results, has updated to 3.0 v43, adding "aesthetic tweaks" (always nice) and slightly better output from Google. The new version is available for free download right now.And unfortunately, it may be the last version-- Dave Watanabe, the creator, |
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| Apple launched its iPhone |
| Published: July 2, 2007, 1:53 am |
| Tags: Data Network, Qyadband, Itunes, Memory, Ipod, Safari, Mp3 Player, At N T, Apple, Speakerphone |
| a speakerphone, e-mail and a Safari Web browser. Memory caps out at 8MB and there's no 3G support or wireless downloads, but the iPhone will garner interest simply because it exists. It's available June 29, exclusively from AT n T, for $499 or $599 depending on the memory size.Despite some important missing features, a slow data network, and call |
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| #81 - Safari sous Windows ! |
| Published: June 29, 2007, 5:09 pm |
| Tags: Le Web Amp Ses Points Z Ro, Apple, Microsoft, Safari, Webdesign |
| jours, le navigateur Safari, qui tait r serv aux "plateformes Mac", est disponible en version Windows (XP/Vista). Mais est-ce vraiment une r volution ? Les c t s un peu positifs... C'est un navigateur sous Windows de plus qui apporte, comme toujours, son lot de nouvelles fonctionnalit s. Ceux qui, comme moi, |
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| Nature Photography: Meerkats - Better at Acting in Nature Shows than Photography |
| Published: September 7, 2007, 3:36 am |
| Tags: Canon, Dslr, Eos, Longleat, Meerkat, Nature Photography, Park, Safari, Zoo |
| is a zookeeper at Longleat Safari Park. He is also rather forgetful. After taking some pictures of his Meerkats for a new zoo brochure, he left his Canon EOS in their enclosure. Apparently the alpha male, Monty, secretly harbors a gadget obsession, and jumped at the chance to snap a few shots of his family for posterity. Have a look at his |
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