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Read Leander Kahney's latest commentary about Apple and Mac News in Wired.com's Cult of Mac Blog, including Mac, Mac Pro, MacBook, iMac, iBook, Mac mini, iPod video, iPod nano, iPod shuffle, iTunes, iPhoto, iPhone, Apple TV, OSX, Steve Jobs, and Macworld.
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WWDC: Safari 3 on Windows Review
Having spent a day with the beta for Apple's much-ballyhooed Safari browser for Windows XP, I'm ready to pronounce it the fastest browser for XP that I've used on a regular basis. On the other hand, it also is riddled...

Having spent a day with the beta for Apple's much-ballyhooed Safari browser for Windows XP, I'm ready to pronounce it the fastest browser for XP that I've used on a regular basis. On the other hand, it also is riddled with the kinds of bizarre bugs only a public beta could expose. Sometimes, it's both the fastest AND the stupidest browser on all of Windows. If you're on the fence, click through to hear whether your working style is ready for this not-quite-ready for primetime browser contender while stranded in the Windows world.

Technorati Tags: software, review, safari
Since July, I have had to run a fairly old Thinkpad T41 at work, and the loss of my browser of choice, Camino, has been the hardest adjustment, other than the control key being in the wrong place and no cmd key. I've mainly used Firefox over the last 11 months, but it's an eccentric application, given to occasional memory leaks and performance slow-downs I struggle to explain. And Internet Explorer is a dog, no matter what version I pull up. As you can imagine, I was thrilled to bring some more of Apple's subversive software onto my work machine.
And I was impressed. Safari blazes on my machine, easily topping the best I've seen from Firefox or IE7. Start-up time is pretty dreadful (30 seconds or so), but pages render faster, and especially blogging and message board sites are snappier than I've ever experienced. Incredibly fast refresh rates, the works.
But speed isn't necessarily a measure of quality. Specifically, Windows Safari sometimes decides to "smooth" the text on a given page into an unrecognizable black line -- no text. If, for example, you visit my other blog, you'll note that all of the headlines are just plain missing. At Facebook, a friend request turned into a page full of incoherent squiggles. I've never seen pages render so improperly in my life. It was like visiting an alternate 1995 in Netscape Navigator 1.1 where people devoted web pages to their favorite horizontal lines instead of to puppies.
Other than that, I've had no crashes and no other problems. I'll probably switch back to Firefox until I can read every web page I visit, but they have to get that right by the time they're out of beta, right?

Pete Mortensen
WWDC: Safari for Windows Confirmed
Big shocker at WWDC today (seriously!). Apple is going to release a public beta of Safari 3 for Windows at its site this afternoon. I really didn't expect to see this happen -- a really bold move from Apple, especially...

Big shocker at WWDC today (seriously!). Apple is going to release a public beta of Safari 3 for Windows at its site this afternoon. I really didn't expect to see this happen -- a really bold move from Apple, especially if they can find some way to make it play nicer with iTunes than Firefox and Explorer do. And as a workplace Windows user -- I'll definitely download and play with it. It's no Camino, but then, what is?

Image via MacRumors.

Pete Mortensen
WWDC: Leaked Agenda Already Proven False
Lest there be any lingering doubts about the total lack of authenticity contained in the supposed agenda for this morning's keynote by Steve Jobs at the Worldwide Developer Conference posted to a German Apple site over the weekend, consider this:...

Lest there be any lingering doubts about the total lack of authenticity contained in the supposed agenda for this morning's keynote by Steve Jobs at the Worldwide Developer Conference posted to a German Apple site over the weekend, consider this: The agenda hasn't gotten a single detail of the presentation correct.

Here's the early agenda, as proposed by the site, Apfelkueche:
� Greetings
� Sales figures and market share of the Macs
� Apple net curtain:
� new Retail store in Italy,
� first store on European mainland,
� new stores will open shortly, among other things Munich, Barcelona, Paris

� iMac:
� Core2Duo selling great!,
� New Generation,
� new Design, which follows itself to iPhone, partly brushed metal
� even thinner,
� Santa rosa chip set,
� LED back light,
� Sizes: 20 ? and 24 ?
� Demo new iMacs
Here's what Steve has actually done, courtesy of our colleague Michael Calore's live blog:
Video with John Hodgman
Details of attendance at largest WWDC ever
Special award to Intel for contributions to Apple
Games demos with EA and iD Games
Overview of Tiger success
Details of Leopard features, none of which are enumerated on German site
I mean, I knew it was fake, but who could have guessed it was THAT fake?

Pete Mortensen
Live at WWDC
It's a beautiful sunny morning here in San Francisco, and Wired News will be liveblogging Steve Jobs' keynote at WWDC. We have reporters. We have cameras, and we have press passes. Check it out here at 10 AM. Don't forget...

It's a beautiful sunny morning here in San Francisco, and Wired News will be liveblogging Steve Jobs' keynote at WWDC. We have reporters. We have cameras, and we have press passes. Check it out here at 10 AM. Don't forget to refresh.

lkahney
WWDC: Rumored Keynote "Agenda" is Ludicrous
Wanna know the No. 1 sign that we're less than 12 hours from major product announcements by Apple? People are throwing up completely weak rumors that wouldn't even get mocked normally. Chief among these at this very moment is an...

Wanna know the No. 1 sign that we're less than 12 hours from major product announcements by Apple? People are throwing up completely weak rumors that wouldn't even get mocked normally. Chief among these at this very moment is an alleged rundown of The Stevenote address, which includes some errors so obvious that it even harms the credibility of the rest of the list.
The Google translation from the original German at Apfelkueche is quite interesting, but take a look at the detail. The new iMacs are alleged to have LED displays at 20 and 24". Really? I'd be pretty surprised. After all, Apple just rolled out MacBook Pros last week, and only managed to go LED for the 15.4" models, not the 17" SKUs. Could Apple pull together a machine built around a display a full 7" bigger than a model they haven't even shipped? I doubt it.
The wackiest rumor of all is, of course, the iPhone@Home, an alleged 10" multitouch tablet mainly for movie-watching and Internet surfer. People have been throwing around rumors for years that Apple would release a tabletMac, and this is the same old rumor, repackaged as a pretend big brother for the iPhone. Who knows? Apple might be ready. But I can tell you this much: NO WAY ON EARTH is Apple releasing a machine called the iPhone@Home that isn't actually a phone and can be used anywhere, not just at home. The company is way too smart to use such a stupid name. Keep your heads up, kids, the FUD is flying right now.
Via Digg.

Technorati Tags: keynote, rumor, steve jobs, Steve Jobs

Pete Mortensen