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For anyone longing for the good ol’ days, you can revisit life with an SE by visiting a web site, WebSE that simulates System 7 on a 9-inch black and white display.
It’s complete with Tetris, Space Invaders, Googley-eyes and an After Dark screen saver.
To get the full effect, you’ll need to wear an outfit with shoulder pads and some big hair while using it.
We’ll be posting our own review of Snow Leopard next week after we get to spend some quality hands-on time with it. In…
Love it or hate it, iTunes 11 is here to stay. This is one more step in the slow transition over to total…
With Apple’s announcement of the revolutionary iPhone 4 yesterday, it would be easy to overlook the release of Safari 5 that coincided with it. While certainly not as glamorous as Apple’s latest device, the newest version of Safari does bring some changes that will give it a serious leg up in the browser wars.
Performance is easily the biggest deciding factor when choosing a browser, and Apple has upgraded Safari with a faster “Nitro” engine to keep themselves ahead of the game. Apple claims Safari 5 will run JavaScript 30 percent faster than Safari 4, 3 percent faster than Chrome 5.0 and more than twice as fast as Firefox 3.6.
In addition to significant speed boosts, Safari 5 also includes the Safari Reader. This utility automatically detects if you are browsing a page with an article on it, and allows you to view it in a continuous and clutter-free manner. To enable Safari Reader, simply navigate to an applicable page and click the Reader icon in the Smart Address Field. Upon doing so, onscreen controls, similar to those seen when viewing a PDF, will appear and let you email, print, and zoom. Safari Reader even saves text settings so font size is the same if you revisit the page.
Though not apparent by simply glancing at the UI, Safari 5 also includes a robust set of HTML5 tweaks under the hood. The new browser brings over a dozen new features including full-screen mode and closed captioning for HTML5 video as well as HTML5 geolocation. To view some examples of the HTML5 web standard in action, check out Apple’s showcase of demos here.
Other more subtle refinements include DNS prefetching and improved catching. DNS prefetching means that if you are viewing a web page with links, Safari detects them and looks them up behind the scenes. When you click a link, the page loads faster as a result. A web cache is essentially an index of pages previously viewed. Since Safari 5’s cache has been expanded, more pages fit into it and load faster upon being revisited.
Appending the aforementioned features are other upgrades such as a smarter address field, integrated Bing search, hardware acceleration for Windows and an improved web inspector. Safari 5 is available today, and is a free download for Mac + PC. Download it here.
Well, this news is a bummer – today Apple announced that they will not release Leopard (OS 10.5) until this October. Previously Apple…
by Matt, matt@smalldog.com (written by Matt@smalldog.com) Two customers filed a class-action lawsuit against Apple for falsely claiming that their MacBook and MacBook Pro…
Apple today announced an update to the AirPort Express. The form factor and feature set are unchanged, except the device now supports 802.11n…