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All Versions Of Internet Explorer Installed & Scrutinized In 9 Minutes (Video)

Stefan Etienne — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 00:23:12 +0000

This is fun! Take every version of Internet Explorer, install each one, use each one, and do it all under 9 minutes in a YouTube vide. Enjoy this, because it will give you your daily dosage of geek, which as we geeks all know, is very good for you. Via: Andy’s Tech Blog Experiments

Mozilla: Don’t Forget About Us, Firefox 4 Launching March 22nd

Stefan Etienne — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 05:11:56 +0000

In a land dominated by Chrome 10 and IE9 fresh out of the coding labs of both Google and Microsoft, respectively, comes Mozilla and its Firefox. To put it in my own wording, Mozilla doesn’t let us forget that Firefox 4 is coming, and that the Release Candidate 1 seems very bug-free, so a release is scheduled for March 22nd. Should any errors arise at the last minute, a Release Candidate 2 would be released and a new release date would be communicated with the community. In the meantime — wait till the 22nd for Firefox 4, if you are so inclined, or required. Via: Firefox 4 Release Announcement

Apple quietly announces Safari 5

Stefan Etienne — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 22:42:01 +0000

This is interesting. A press release just got outed by Apple’s PR website, presenting the new release of the safari desktop browser, Safari 5. There’s a claimed 30 percent increase in speed, much like the iPhone 4′s version, and the debut of the Safari Reader. There’s also the ability to completely nuke Google search as the default option and choose Bing. Interesting. Press release below the break.

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 OSÂ® 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 LeopardÂ® 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 in May 2010 on an iMacÂ® 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.

Apple ignited the personal computer revolution with the Apple II, then reinvented the personal computer with the Macintosh. Apple continues to lead the industry with its award-winning computers, OS X operating system, and iLife, iWork and professional applications. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store, has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and has recently introduced its magical iPad which is defining the future of mobile media and computing devices.

Â© 2010 Apple Inc. All rights reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, Mac, Mac OS, Macintosh, Leopard and iMac are trademarks of Apple. Other company and product names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Safari 5 makes debut at WWDC with a boatload of HTML5?

Stefan Etienne — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 14:27:27 +0000

According to French blog MacGeneration, Steve Jobs (and/or Apple) will make the Safari 5 announcement which is purportedly going to include the new Safari Reader, a 25% bump/jump in JavaScript performance, the option to make Bing the default search engine (an obvious sign of Jobs’ war on Google), 12+ new HTML5 features, newer developer tools, and hardware acceleration (yes?) for Windows. It could all be good, but I don’t see Safari giving Mac or Windows users the urge to switch to it from Google’s Chrome. Rightfully so, Chrome right now is untouchable. Firefox 4 who?

Via: TUAW

Google Chrome Kicks Butt. And Is Faster Than A Potato Cannon, Shows Google

Stefan Etienne — Wed, 05 May 2010 20:54:17 +0000

See, there are millions of YouTube videos uploaded each day to Google’s service, with 90% of them being utter crap, 5% are okay, and another 5% are worth watching. But Google has shown that they are the only ones worthy of their own video serving website. In a recent marketing video so wonderful it could make Verizon and the Droids cry, Google pits the latest beta version of Chrome against the following: a frickin’ potato cannon, lightning, and sound waves. I rightfully suggest you check out the best YouTube video of all time, after this line break.