August 27, 2009
In the kingdom of Mac browsers, there are two names that rule the land: Safari – with its speed and style; and Firefox – with its flexibility of functionalities. There are other browsers of course, with their loyal users if I may add; but these two share the biggest share of the pie. Being the [...]
July 21, 2009
Although a lot of browsers come with great homepages (I’m thinking Firefox Start, but especially Opera’s Speed Dial), there are plenty of reasons for changing yours. Apart from using your favorite website (wink, wink), we’ve seen a bunch of services here on MakeUseOf in the past, allowing you to make a personal, dynamic homepage, greeting [...]
June 26, 2009
Steve Jobs once said that Microsoft’s products lack “taste”. At the moment, it started a war between Windows and Mac fanboys. But to many people, that statement was justified ““ OS X was considerably ahead of Windows from a design and usability standpoint. Today, you can see that Microsoft has decided to give a lot [...]
June 4, 2009
Maintaining multi-browser compatibility has been one of the most time-consuming and frustrating part of web programming. Although things are getting better with decline in IE6′s use, the situation is far from ideal. If you are a web developer, you sure have to take care of browser compatibilities and ensure that your web app looks and [...]
March 11, 2009
In the last few days I’ve watched how columns from around the web have bashed the latest beta version of the Safari browser. It’s too much glitter, it ripped off Chrome, this that and the other, all in all very nasty comments. Well today I’m going to play devil’s advocate and tell you what I [...]
December 21, 2008
In the past, I’ve looked at a few Safari plugins: Cooliris, which revolutionizes the way we view images and videos (and even shop online); and I’ve delved into two of the most popular search plugins – Glims and Inquisitor to see which one is better overall. This time around, I’ll be looking into one of [...]
October 1, 2008
The standard search box in Safari is pretty simple. Type in your search query and hit Enter. Boom! View the results from Google. Well, that’s only if you’re quite certain about what you’re searching for. What if you’re in that zone when you’re looking for something but you aren’t really sure what it’s called or [...]
June 25, 2008
From the perspective of a downloader, there are two species of files roaming around the virtual world: the easy ones and the difficult ones. While the members of the first set of species are easy to handle – ‘Right Click’ then ‘Save As’ and they are all yours, the members of the second set of [...]
April 30, 2008
Well, my two week descent into unusability and lack of functionality that is Safari, is finally over. About two weeks ago I undertook to stick to Safari all the time, 24 hours a day/7 days a week, while at home. Thank goodness I had an oasis of sanity every weekday when I went in to [...]
April 25, 2008
I’ve been a Firefox user for a few years now, since it came out really, and I love it. It’s a great browser and the extensions can turn it into anything you want it to be, from an FTP client to a multiplayer pong game. I’ve been using a Mac for a little over a [...]
