One of my main complains of Safari since its release is that my bank, Citibank, does not work with it. At the beginning, I’ve tried turning on Safari’s debug menu and changed the user agent string to something more ‘normal’ like ‘Windows MSIE 6’. It did not work then and I was under the impression that it is still not working.
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OmniWeb 5 coming soon
So OmniGroup put up a preview page of OmniWeb 5 today. Seems like it will be a great browser, but I am not sure about advertising the ‘tab’ feature when there is no actual ‘tab’ per se. I am especially interested in the ‘Workspaces’ feature as well as the ‘RSS/XML feeds viewing’ feature.
I will have to try it out thoroughly before shelling out the $29.95 asking price. There are some shortcoming in Safari that OminWeb addresses (noticeably Citibank access) but similarly current version of OmniWeb, 4.5, has its own shortcoming too (no tab browsing and auto-fill is not really auto).
With the rumored release of Safari 1.2 around the same timeframe, let’s hope OmniWeb 5 will be a competition to Safari instead of just playing catch up.
New Kung-Log is coming
Adriaan, creator of Kung-Log, has announced that a new version of Kung-Log, called ‘ecto’, is forthcoming. I’ve been using Kung-Log to blog to TypePad for awhile now and it is a very handy little application. Apparently the new version will no longer be donate-ware but will charge a small fee. I, for one, will be more than happy to pay for Adriaan’s hard work. I would know, as I am also writing a blogging tool 😉
Atom API supports in MovableType/TypePad
For the past few weeks I have been working on a .NET blogging tool that is closely tight to the MovableType API. That is, a mixture of Blogger API, MetaWeblog API, and MovableType API. All of these use XML-RPC API as the communication specification between the client and the server.
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Mono on PowerPC Progress
The Mono project finally makes some great progress towards a native PowerPC build. Can’t wait for it to be more completed so I can code C#/.NET on my PowerBook.
Lost in Colonisation 