Apple releases Safari 3.1 for Mac and Windows
Apple released an updated version of the Safari web browser today, with many improvements on performance, compatibility, and reliability. Safari 3.1 also adds support for CSS 3 web fonts, HTML 5 audio and video elements, and other web standards. Safari was the first browser to pass the Acid2 standards test, but unfortunately it failed to [...]
Skype 2.7 beta for Mac released: Leopard Support
Skype has just released a new version, Skype 2.7 beta for Mac. The best feature in the lasted build is support for OS X 10.5 Leopard. Skype is also not forgeting Linux, and PC as they update those versions often.
Skype 2.7 beta for Mac is the first OS X version to support VGA video at [...]
SyncTV: Pioneer takes on video downloading
Pioneer SyncTV was introduced in private beta today. The service is not one of the first of its kind but there are a some features that make SyncTV better than competitors like Amazon, Apple, and NBC.
One excellent feature is it is compatible with Mac, Linux, and PCs. Users can specify up to 5 computers for [...]
Safari 3 Windows Hack for Faster Surfing
Making Safari faster is very simple:
OPEN: C:\Program Files\Safari\Safari.resources
Open up Defaults.plist (Using Wordpad) add the following line at the end:
<key>WebKitInitialTimedLayoutDelay</key>
<real>0.25</real>
Thats it! Enjoy.
Skype 2.0 beta for Linux
It seems like Skype has almost completed the Linux version. Today Skype released 2.0 beta Linux version adding video support.
Skype 2.0 beta for Linux is available for many Linux distributions including Debian, Mepis, Xandros, Mandriva, and OpenSuse. Support for Ubuntu and Fedora is to come.
Skype 2.0 beta requires a video card driver with Xv support, [...]
Over 2 million DRM-free Music tracks on iTunes
Apple now has over 2 Million Tracks for you to download from expanding its catalog of unencrypted music.
Apple can now legitimately claim to have the largest library of DRM-free music available online. For a some time Amazon has been in the lead, but Apple has caught up. And while there are still a [...]
Coconut Battery Review
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Version tested: 2.5.1
Most of us laptop users are concerned about battery life. For Apple users there now is a utility called CoconutBattery.
This tiny utility lets you know about the battery in your computer, like what the current battery charge is and whether the battery is currently charging or not. But it also tells you [...]
Universal launching online music store
Everybody knows that there is tension between Apple and Universal Music. Itunes is the dominator of music that is easy to see. Without Universal Music there would be no iTunes so basically they need each other to survive. Universal started offering DRM-free tracks for download this year, the label went with Amazon, Wal-Mart, and RealNetworks [...]







