Safari 3 Public Beta - Mac and WINDOWS

Safari 3 Public Beta - Mac and WINDOWS

Opera has the worst HTML performance? I don’t believe that.

Interesting how the Windows screen shots show Windows XP instead of Vista (it works on both). Perhaps as a subtle jab at Microsoft, perhaps a reflection that most people still use (and therefore recognise) XP. 

WWDC Keynote '07

You can read this pretty much anywhere else, but oh well.

1. New Finder for Leopard - finally. Although at first glance, it looks a bit too much like iTunes for my taste. No real way to know how good it is till I see more of it.
2. New Dock - looks shiny. Shiny is almost (well, usually) always good.
3. Time Machine - yeah, we already knew about it, but I was looking for a way to do backups anyway, so I’m happy
4. Safari for Windows - probably to facilitate the development of…
5. iPhone apps - which will run with the iPhone’s version of Safari, via JavaScript/XML/(HTML?) All in all, not too exciting, but not too much of a letdown - like Macworld 07 was, ugh. Mainly because I don’t really care about the iPhone. It’s nice, I guess; I just don’t have much interest in phones/PDAs/tiny computers/whatever.

Time Warner Cable Implements Packet Shaping

Time Warner Cable Implements Packet Shaping

That is, any service they don’t like will be purposely degraded.

I wonder if they will degrade encrypted traffic too, since they can’t see what’s inside? Or maybe the scary-sounding language at the end of the press release means they’ll simply terminate your account if you have a suspiciously high amount of encrypted traffic - either way, sucks to be you if you have a legitimate need for it.

Sad. I’ve used EarthLink Cable through Time Warner for a long time, and I’ve been very satisfied with their service thus far.

Twitterrific 2.2 beta, WWDC edition

Twitterrific 2.2 beta, WWDC edition

Heh, nice. It scans for other Twitterrific users on your LAN via Bonjour, and automatically displays them in the window. Only useful if you’re on a really big LAN… like there (presumably) will be at WWDC…

Comparing the Photo-Sharing Sites (David Pogue)

Comparing the Photo-Sharing Sites (David Pogue)

I don’t know why more people don’t use PicasaWeb (incorrectly referred to here as ‘Google Images’). Flickr’s interface drives me bonkers.

‘omg my mom joined facebook!!’ - New York Times

‘omg my mom joined facebook!!’ - New York Times

Heh heh heh. This is why:

1. Every little thing on Facebook has elaborate privacy controls that you can set
2. Don’t accept the friend requests of every single person you’ve said ‘hi’ to once in your life (via reddit)

Twitterrific 2.1 (final)

Twitterrific 2.1 (final)

If you weren’t using the beta, then upgrade and get Growl and stuff. If you were… still upgrade, I guess.

a softer world

a softer world

OpenOffice.org Mac OS X Aqua Developer Preview

OpenOffice.org Mac OS X Aqua Developer Preview

This is a very early public alpha version of OOo’s official effort to port their program to the Mac, without the need for ugly Unixy X11.

For the time being, of course, most Mac users will still want to stick with NeoOffice (the developers of which seem to be taking this in stride, despite having been inexplicably excommunicated from the official OOo efforts).

The end of Guest Week(s)

…which has been more like Guest Eternity. For both Scary Go Round and Sluggy Freelance, it has finally come to an end today. O joy!