Tag: apple

Bank of Wisdom

The Register from the U.K. mentioned the idiotic Mac support policy by Barclaycard.

Ah, this brings back memory from last year when I worked for another international bank in Manhattan. Common sense does not appear in bank’s policy makers’ dictionary.

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Bare skin

After having a MacSkinz on my PowerBook for over nine months (picture), I’ve taken it off tonight after drooling over Leah’s brand spanking new 12″ AlBook! Now my PowerBook looks like a Mac again but still not as sexy…

[Posted with ecto]

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GUI: Illustrated History

Thanks to Scott I came across this great site about the evolution of the GUI, GUIdebook: Graphical User Interface gallery.

It’s interesting how we went from the primitive to the complicated, and from the simplistic to the cartoonish within two decades!

[Posted with ecto]

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OmniWeb 5 beta 2

Curiosity gets the better of me and I downloaded beta 2 of OmniWeb 5 last night. (Camino nightly is busted since 2/19 kind of help my curiosity too!)

Beta 2 is definitely a big improvement over beta 1, as it no longer crashes easily though it still crashes on some situation. There are still a large number of known issues and bugs but right now beta 2 is good enough for me to try using it as my default browser over Safari. The tabs implementation is very interesting and the ads-blocking is really good. The two features that I really like are the Site Preferences (you can set individual settings for each sites) and RSS feed detection.

If and when OmniWeb uses the latest WebKit from Apple (it is still on v85, i.e. Safari 1.1) I will definitely tempted to pay for this browser.

Update: Spoke way too soon. OmniWeb has been crashing throughout the day. Must have crashed at least 5 times today already. Back to Safari…

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