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Safari 4.0.4 Update Released

Written on November 12, 2009 by Charles Jade and 4 people have commented

Safari version 4.0.4 is now available, the 30MB update promising improvements to “performance, stability, and security.”
Regarding security, the update addresses several potential “maliciously crafted” attacks–are there such things as benevolently crafted attacks? One uses a color profile, which is inventive, if evil. Others use XML, shortcut menus, or the user’s desire to visit web pages [...]

Chrome to Pass Safari in Browser Market Share

Written on November 02, 2009 by Charles Jade and 18 people have commented

For October, OS X 10.6 and iPhone OS 3.0 continued to make incremental gains in market share, as did Safari. Unfortunately for the Apple web browser, Google’s Chrome is gaining faster.

Compiling data from more than 160 million visitors to its worldwide network of sites, web metrics firm Net Applications has released numbers for the month. [...]

Snow Leopard Leaps in Market Share

Written on October 01, 2009 by Charles Jade and 36 people have commented

Eighteen percent of Mac users are running Snow Leopard just one month after its release, according to Web metrics firm Net Applications. That’s a remarkable upgrade rate for the latest iteration of OS X, especially considering Snow Leopard is Intel only.

Overall, OS X now represents 5.12 percent of the worldwide OS market, up from 4.87 [...]

RIM Buys Torch Mobile: Closing the Gap on Mobile Safari?

Written on August 24, 2009 by Liam Cassidy and 4 people have commented

Canadian company Research In Motion, maker of the ubiquitous BlackBerry, has bought software developers (and webkit aficionados) Torch Mobile, according to a report today over on Engadget.
No, I’ve never heard of Torch Mobile, either.
But according to the company’s web site, it is “excited to announce” that the company has been acquired by RIM, “one [...]

Safari 4.0.3 Released

Written on August 11, 2009 by Charles Jade and 13 people have commented

Just over a month since Safari 4.0.2 made its way into Software Update, Safari 4.0.3 has arrived for Mac and Windows. The update weighs in at 40.5MB and will require a restart.
In addition to the boiler plate “improvements to stability, compatibility and security,” Safari 4.0.3 purports to address:

Stability improvements for webpages that use the HTML [...]

How-To: Full Screen Browsing and Forced Tabs With Safari

Written on August 06, 2009 by Bryan Schuetz and 12 people have commented

With support for emerging web standards in HTML 5 and CSS3, topflight built in developer tools, fast performance, and the other 150 new features packed into its Snow Leopard release, Safari is now the only browser left on my dock.
After reading through David’s great tips for supercharging Safari, I was inspired to pimp out my [...]

OS X Market Share Jumps, iPhone Bumped, Safari 4 Trumps in July

Written on August 03, 2009 by Charles Jade and 6 people have commented

According to web metrics firm Net Applications, July was a very good month for Apple. OS X was sharply higher in usage, while the iPhone 3GS launch boosted Apple mobile numbers, and version 4 of Safari effectively replaced version 3 for those using Apple’s browser.

What can you say when your main competitor, Microsoft Windows, has [...]

Six Tips for Supercharging Safari

Written on July 22, 2009 by David Appleyard and 43 people have commented

Although Safari improves with every version released, it remains difficult for one browser to cater for everyone’s needs. Firefox has successfully approached this problem through the use of Add-Ons, but Safari continues to lack any widely promoted form of plugin or extension functionality.
Despite this, I still remain a huge fan of Safari’s simplicity and speed [...]

Google Brings Local Web Search to iPhone via Safari

Written on July 16, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 5 people have commented

As you may already know, one of the improvements that came along with iPhone 3.0 was mobile Safari’s ability to access the iPhone and iPod touch’s geolocation services. Geolocation is quickly becoming a feature that more and more web developers are looking at implementing, especially given that the recently released Firefox 3.5 and Chrome 2.0 [...]

Safari 4.0.2 Addresses Security, Stability

Written on July 09, 2009 by Charles Jade and 4 people have commented

Apple has released version 4.0.2 of Safari for both OS X 10.4 and 10.5 (but not Snow Leopard), as well as Windows XP, Vista and 7 beta. The 40MB update is available through Software Update and download via Apple’s web site.
The release notes, cryptic as usual, state the update improved “the stability of the Nitro [...]

What Will Apple Borrow Next?

Written on June 23, 2009 by James Dempsey and 39 people have commented

Apple has a history of either buying apps or boldly copying features from developers and including them in OSX. So what borrowed features could we see in OSX next?

Thoughts on Safari 4: Some Bad, Mostly Good

Written on June 15, 2009 by Tom Reestman and 36 people have commented

I’ve been running the release version of Safari 4 on Mac OS and Windows XP for a few days. There are a lot of good features with Safari 4 — and I have no desire to go back to version 3 — but I do miss the beta sometimes.
Where’d My Tabs Go?
Yes, the oft-criticized Tabs [...]

Safari 4 Sees Huge Demand, 11 Million Downloads So Far

Written on June 12, 2009 by Charles Jade and 23 people have commented

Although available as a public beta since February 24, the final version of Safari 4 was introduced on Monday at WWDC 2009. Less than a week later, more than 5 million Mac users, and 6 million Windows users have downloaded it. Not surprisingly, Apple is pleased.
“Safari 4 is an incredible success on Mac and Windows [...]

OS X, iPhone OS, Safari Market Share Continue Rebounding in May

Written on June 04, 2009 by Charles Jade and 8 people have commented

Net Applications measures market share based upon Internet usage from some 160 million visitors to a network of hosted sites each month. According to the web metrics firm, OS X, iPhone OS and Safari are continuing to incrementally increase in market share after sharp declines earlier this year.
For May, OS X market share was 9.81 [...]

Create a 3D Wall With Your Photos

Written on June 03, 2009 by James Dempsey and 9 people have commented

iPhoto is perfectly capable of displaying your photos as a slideshow or one at a time. But you’re limited to a flat display that doesn’t exactly “wow” anyone. With one simple download, you can view your iPhoto collection on a visually stunning 3D wall, right in your Web browser.

Apple Bringing Geolocation to Mobile Safari

Written on June 01, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 2 people have commented

Since Apple doesn’t provide detailed release notes with each of their beta installments, it’s understandable that details about less obvious features and changes would only come to light gradually, as people poked around and tried different (and sometimes unusual) things with their devices. Computerworld’s Seth Weintraub was fooling around with the Mobile Safari browser included [...]

QuickBooks Online Now Available to Mac Users

Written on May 05, 2009 by Weldon Dodd and 9 people have commented

We had a sneak peek of the new QuickBooks Online back in January at Macworld Expo, and now the Mac community can start using the service. Intuit announced today that the new release of QuickBooks Online is finally compatible with the Safari browser and, thus, is available to Mac users.

Tweet Directly in Safari With Safari140

Written on March 11, 2009 by Darrell Etherington and 6 people have commented

One of the reasons I can’t completely cross over to using Safari 4 as my full-time browser, aside from its dangerous (considering my line of work) incompatibility with some WordPress features, is its lack of add-on support. Firefox’s rich user community and extensibility makes sure that if there’s an add-on I need or find [...]

Hey Apple, Don’t Be So Quick to Ditch Safari’s Tabs On Top

Written on March 09, 2009 by Tom Reestman and 56 people have commented

The Safari 4 beta was released a mere two weeks ago, and I sometimes feel as if the battle over title-bar tabs may already be over. The heavy hitters have weighed in, and it’s not looking good.
There’s MacDailyNews:
When the very first thing we did after the first day with Safari 4 Public Beta was to [...]

Paul Thurrott: Safari is From Apple, Therefore I Hate It

Written on February 25, 2009 by Tom Reestman and 67 people have commented

Paul Thurrott has weighed in with his opinion of the new Safari 4 update, and he’s not impressed. While no surprise, it’s the manner in which he blasts the product (and, of course, Apple’s users) that was especially interesting.
I was wondering how Thurrott was going to counter the incredible speed of the browser engine. Apple’s [...]