Safari 5 has been released and has some new features

Apple Releases Safari 5

SAN FRANCISCO, June 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Apple® today released Safari® 5, the latest version of the world’s fastest and most innovative web browser, featuring the new Safari Reader for reading articles on the web without distraction, a 30 percent performance increase over Safari 4,* and the ability to choose Google, Yahoo! or Bing as the search service powering Safari’s search field. Available for both Mac® and Windows, Safari 5 includes improved developer tools and supports more than a dozen new HTML5 technologies that allow web developers to create rich, dynamic websites. With Safari 5, developers can now create secure Safari Extensions to customize and enhance the browsing experience.

“Safari continues to lead the pack in performance, innovation and standards support,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “Safari now runs on over 200 million devices worldwide and its open source WebKit engine runs on over 500 million devices.”

Safari Reader makes it easy to read single and multipage articles on the web by presenting them in a new, scrollable view without any additional content or clutter. When Safari 5 detects an article, users can click on the Reader icon in the Smart Address Field to display the entire article for clear, uninterrupted reading with options to enlarge, print or send via email.

Powered by the Nitro JavaScript engine, Safari 5 on the Mac runs JavaScript 30 percent faster than Safari 4, three percent faster than Chrome 5.0, and over twice as fast as Firefox 3.6.* Safari 5 loads new webpages faster using Domain Name System (DNS) prefetching, and improves the caching of previously viewed pages to return to them more quickly.

Safari 5 adds more than a dozen powerful HTML5 features that allow web developers to create media-rich experiences, including full screen playback and closed captions for HTML5 video. Other new HTML5 features in Safari 5 include HTML5 Geolocation, HTML5 sectioning elements, HTML5 draggable attribute, HTML5 forms validation, HTML5 Ruby, HTML5 AJAX History, EventSource and WebSocket.

The new, free Safari Developer Program allows developers to customize and enhance Safari 5 with extensions based on standard web technologies like HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript. The Extension Builder, new in Safari 5, simplifies the development, installation and packaging of extensions. For enhanced security and stability, Safari Extensions are sandboxed, signed with a digital certificate from Apple and run solely in the browser.

Pricing & Availability

Safari 5 is available for both Mac OS® X and Windows as a free download at www.apple.com/safari. Safari 5 for Mac OS X requires Mac OS X Leopard 10.5.8 or Mac OS X Snow Leopard® 10.6.2 or later. Safari 5 for Windows requires Windows XP SP2, Windows Vista or Windows 7, a minimum 256MB of memory and a system with at least a 500 MHz Intel Pentium processor. Full system requirements and more information on Safari 5 can be found at www.apple.com/safari. The Safari Developer Program is free to join at developer.apple.com/programs/safari.

*Performance will vary based on system configuration, network connection and other factors. All testing conducted by Apple inMay 2010 on an iMac® 3.06 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo system running Mac OS X 10.6.3, with 4GB of RAM. JavaScript benchmark based on the SunSpider 0.9.1 JavaScript Performance test.

Source: Apple

finally some good news for Blackberry Mac users…desktop manager leaked; however, it may break things like Missing Sync…

Calling all Mac + BlackBerry users… your big day is has come! Sent in by our friend TimBukTwo, BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Mac users has leaked its way onto the interwebs for all to download. This is version 1.0.0 beta software, which means there may be some glitches still, but if you’re a Mac owner and have been waiting years for this then you may just want to throw caution out the door and give it a go (do so at your own risk of course!). I installed it on my Mac alllll good. If you’re not familiar with BBDM for Mac, you can visit blackberry.com/mac for more details and you can click the link below to download the unofficial release.

• Download BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Mac (from megaupload)>>
• Download BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Mac (from rapidshare) >>
• Download BlackBerry Desktop Manager for Mac (from sendspace) >>

Get it get it

[Source: Crackberry]

since I last posted something…I’ve been pretty busy and pretty lazy. Between work craziness, going to Cabo, and trying to deal with life at home…I haven’t had the drive or desire to write anything…hopefully that will change.

short write about Cabo Freakfest…it was fun, got to hang out with some old friends, made some new ones. partied, shot photos, and hung out…good times were had…big thanks to Manny and Mailea Vargas

Other things…Work has been crazy, especially with the beginning of the semester…I got another tattoo…Friday is getting used to being outdoors….upgraded my Macbook’s HD and upgraded to Snow Leopard…not much else has really been going on…life is pretty good right now…

Gracias a Carlos por eso foto

Mac users can finally rejoice!!! We’ll just see how installing leaks is gonna work

Many of you commented on my “Updating Your BlackBerry Device Software” post back in April saying “…this is great! But what about Mac?” I could not respond to those comments at the time, but I’m happy to say there’s some exciting news we can share with you. We have all been hard at work here for a while now, and you may have noticed some Mac support with the preview version of BlackBerry® Media Sync for Mac released back in December. Read on to get the first inside scoop on BlackBerry® Desktop Software that will be coming to Mac in September, and get a first glimpse at a few product screenshots.

Here are some key features the initial release will include:

• Sync your iTunes® playlists, calendars, contacts, notes and tasks
• Add/Remove applications
• Update your device when new software becomes available
• Backup and restore your device data with such features like automatically scheduled backups and optional encryption (security is #1 as always…)
• Manage multiple devices

And it will support Mac® OS 10.5.5 and above.

Make sure to check out www.blackberry.com/mac and sign up to get notified when the software is available, and stay tuned for more posts from me here on Inside BlackBerry as we get closer to the release date.

Check out the Blackberry Blog for more pictures

If you haven’t heard, you’ve probably been living under a rock or are not as much into gadgets as I am.

New features include a landscape keyboard, cut/copy/paste function, search, and a compass. I’d probably get one of these if AT&T didn’t suck, but I love my service with Verizon and am sticking with it. Maybe one day when the iPhone comes to Verizon like rumored…maybe one day…probably not though…i’ll stick to my Blackberry

[Source: Apple]

smaller install package and faster? that’s enough for me

Apple Unveils Mac OS X Snow Leopard

SAN FRANCISCO—June 8, 2009—Apple® today unveiled Mac OS® X Snow Leopard™, an even more powerful and refined version of the world’s most advanced operating system and the foundation for future Mac® innovation. Snow Leopard builds on a decade of OS X innovation and success with hundreds of refinements, new core technologies, out of the box support for Microsoft Exchange and new accessibility features. Snow Leopard will ship as an upgrade for Mac OS X Leopard users in September 2009 for $29.

“We’ve built on the success of Leopard and created an even better experience for our users from installation to shutdown,” said Bertrand Serlet, Apple’s senior vice president of Software Engineering. “Apple engineers have made hundreds of improvements so with Snow Leopard your system is going to feel faster, more responsive and even more reliable than before.”

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here’s what’s included:

What’s included?

General

• Includes latest security fixes.
• Includes additional RAW image support for several third-party cameras.
• Improves performance of video playback and cursor movements for recent Macs with NVIDIA graphics.
  
• Resolves an issue with Dvorak keyboard layout in Mac OS X 10.5.6.
• Improves the reliability and accuracy of Unit Converter, Stocks, Weather and Movies Dashboard widgets.
• Addresses a situation that may cause issues when logging into Gmail.
• Improves reliability when syncing contacts with Yahoo!.
• Expansion Slot Utility for Mac Pro now reports the correct PCIe slot configuration.
• Improves network performance when connected to certain Ethernet switches that have Flow Control enabled.
• Improves stability for network home directories hosted by Mac OS X Server v10.4.
• Improves Finder search results for network volumes that may not support Spotlight searching, such as Mac OS X Server v10.4, Time Capsule, and third-party AFP servers.
• Includes several improvements to Directory Service and Client Management.

iCal

• Improves overall reliability with CalDav.
• Improves reliability when automatically syncing with MobileMe.

Mail

• Addresses reliability and sync issues with Notes.
• Addresses an issue that may cause the BCC field to populate incorrectly when redirecting a message from the Sent mailbox.
  

Parental Controls

• Improves consistency with Parental Controls and application restrictions.
• Addresses an issue in which time limits may not work properly with full-screen games and Fast User Switching.

Printing

• Resolves an issue that may cause certain third-party printers to print to the incorrect paper tray.
• Non-admin user accounts can now be allowed to add and remove printers by enabling Parental Controls and selecting “Can administer printers”.
• Includes other printing reliability and stability improvements.

[Source: Apple]

I’ll be in line for this the minute it drops :p

Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard

Primate Labs tested the newly released Macbooks against their predecessors and the results are?

There is very little improvement for both the memory and processor performance.

Read the article and make the decision for yourself…but to me…its not worth the price jump. Hopefully the next update will bring better processors.

Til then, i’ll stick with my current Macbook. and hey…computers are always upgraded, so there’s always gonna be something faster.

Apple released the specs today on the new Macbooks and Macbook Pros. I’m not very impressed from what I’ve read so far. I’m gonna stick with talking about the Macbooks because that’s what I have.

The new trackpad is blah. No mouse button so you can only click on the trackpad. This doesn’t seem useful at all for those of us doing graphics work need something to click or its not gonna work very well.

The new glossy screen is also blah. Glossy screens plus photo editing is a no no. Photos need to be edited on normal monitors because the colors are represented more truly than on a glossy screen.

No firewire for the Macbooks. Video capturing without firewire is…stupid. Yes, I know the Macbooks aren’t supposed to be used for high end stuff, but they can be. I guess they’re trying to push people doing on the road editing towards Macbook Pros.

The price jump for the Macbook is not were looking for. Everyone was hoping that Apple would drop the price of the Macbooks to get a better foot hold in the laptop market since the price of Windows based laptops are going down. So instead of $1099 and $1299 for a 2.1 GHZ and a 2.4 GHZ…the price for the new Macbooks are $1299 and $1599 for a 2.0 GHZ and a 2.4 GHZ. That’s a pretty significant bump in price.

I do kind of like that they are now a unibody aluminum enclosure, but the fact that its two-toned brushed aluminum and black is…meh.

Backlit keyboard is a plus (not available on the $1299 Macbook), but not a necessity since your fingers get pretty used to the key locations. Superdrive standard is a plus, but I don’t burn that much stuff so its no big deal.

I’m not too impressed with the update and won’t be updating any time soon.