Most of my browsing is still done with the default OS X browser, Safari, for the following reasons:
Built in spellcheck as you type in textboxes. This is almost a necessity, once you have used it, going back is difficult.
No other browser (that I am aware of) has implemented a History menu item. This [...]
Posted on Sunday 23rd April 2006 in Blog tagged Computers, geekery, internet, mac OS X, with no comments.
Another detailed, but succinct (if that’s not an oxymoron), post by John Gruber. This time about apple’s decision to release ‘Boot Camp’ (which lets you run Windows on a new Intel mac), well worth reading if you are into technology: Daring Fireball: Windows: The New Classic
Posted on Friday 7th April 2006 in Blog, Computers tagged internet, mac OS X, technology, Windows, with no comments.
One big problem with the current trend of device convergence is that if that one device fails, then so do all of your devices! This means that device failure has a bigger impact, and this impact will increase with the number of functions the device replaces.
Two examples of this. Firstly, I use my phone [...]
Posted on Saturday 18th March 2006 in Blog, Computers tagged internet, mac OS X, Music, technology, TV, with one comment.
As reported at The Web Standards Project, Safari 2.02 is the first fully released browser to pass the Acid 2 test, to show that it renders CSS correctly.
What I want to know is, when are the acid 3 and 4 tests coming out to push browsers further into advanced CSS support, which should make for [...]
Posted on Tuesday 1st November 2005 in Blog tagged Computers, internet, mac OS X, software, with no comments.
apple’s release of the new iMac with remote control got me searching for alternatives that would work with my hardware. I had seen Salling Clicker from Salling Software before, but I didn’t think it worked with Windows pocket PC PDA’s. However, version 3 of the Salling Clicker software has been release, and this [...]
Posted on Thursday 13th October 2005 in Blog tagged Computers, mac OS X, with no comments.
