Being a Chrome man, I generally don’t pay much attention to Safari, but I just noticed a really neat new feature in Safari 5.1 under the Lion Developer Preview 4: a new downloads manager. In previous versions of Safari, running downloads popped up in a...Safari 5.1 Beta Gets Awesome, iOS-Like Download Manager [OS X Lion]
Being a Chrome man, I generally don’t pay much attention to Safari, but I just noticed a really neat new feature in Safari 5.1 under the Lion Developer Preview 4: a new downloads manager. In previous versions of Safari, running downloads popped up in a...Safari 5.1 Developer Preview Released
As a last update to the various Dev Centers that a few hours ago received new betas of iOS, OS X Lion and iCloud for developers, Apple has also posted the Safari 5.1 Developer Preview that, as seen on Lion (running 5.1 out of the box), will bring some of the browser’s latest advancements to...
Microsoft and Mozilla’s continuing Chrome conundrum
In the second full month of availability for the new Firefox 4 and Internet Explorer 9, clear trends are starting to emerge. Firefox users are upgrading; Internet Explorer users are not. And Internet Explorer's slide is continuin...
iChromy is The Perfect iPad Web Browser for Google Chrome Users
For those of you who use Google’s Chrome web browser on your Mac or PC, a new app called iChromy aims to offer an identical browsing experience on your iPad, with a polished user interface and some rather nice features. While I’m a...iChromy is The Perfect iPad Web Browser for Google Chrome Users
For those of you who use Google’s Chrome web browser on your Mac or PC, a new app called iChromy aims to offer an identical browsing experience on your iPad, with a polished user interface and some rather nice features. While I’m a...Facebook for iPhone Creator Tries to Improve Scrolling in iOS Web Apps
Joe Hewitt, creator and former developer of the Facebook app for iPhone, announced earlier this month his intention to leave the company to focus on personal projects to build tools for designers, programmers, and writers. The first result of his renewed development efforts is Scrollability, ”a single script” that has no ”external dependencies” and it’s aimed at...
Google News Goes Local on Mobile Browsers
With an official post on Google News’ blog, Google has announced that starting today in the United States, Google News will be able of displaying location-based content on iOS and Android mobile browsers. By giving access to your location information in iOS Safari, Google News will find news relevant to where you are in the...
Twitter revamps mobile web app
With all of the various options available, like Echofon, Twitterific, the official Twitter app and everything else, you already have a choice of ways to browse and post to Twitter on your iPhone. But just in case you happen to use Mobile Safari to do...
Twitter No Longer Sucks Under Mobile Safari
Twitter announced on its blog yesterday that the company is finally rolling out an update to its mobile web application which will integrate HTML5 and introduce some nice new features, meaning it will no longer suck so much under mobile Safari. The...Apple releases iOS 4.3.3 WebKit source, but stretches the spirit of the LGPL
Remember when Google said it wouldn't release the source code to Android 3.0 ("Honeycomb") because it "wasn't ready"? Remember the snarky remarks from Apple bloggers about how it was rushed to market and the definition of "open"? And the hopefully t...
Amazon Cloud Player Now Works with iOS Safari
Back in late March, Amazon launched Cloud Player for the web and Android devices, an online interface that, relying on music uploaded to your Amazon account via Cloud Drive, allowed you to stream music from the cloud via a web browser or the native Android application, built into the OS with direct connection to Amazon’s...
Is Mac under a virus attack?
No. But there's some bad news rising on the Apple malware front Let's see if we can handle this one as a Q&A. Q: Is there a Mac OS X virus loose on the Internet? Technically, no. As far as I know, no Mac OS X virus has ever been detected in the wild. But...
