Safari 4 Sneak Peak

So the word is out that Safari 4 Developer Preview is in fact lurking around the hand of developers. Turns out that my free ADC membership has it up for download too. So I played with it a while and I will talk about one feature that sets it apart from other browsers.

Safari 4 File menu

Fluid

Safari web app of Facebook(left), Fluid version(right). Notice that fluid has proper icon.

Safari 4 now allows you to save your favourite web apps as…. none other than APPS themselves. So what the heck does that mean? It means that you can have a Facebook app, Gmail app, WordPress app – you name it!

While some may argue the need for such a feature, I believe there are some people out there that relies heavily on web apps for their work. Thus, having a separate app for the site alone might help to:

- Prevent crashes when too many tabs are open in one browser
- Probably minimise memory leaks for leaving your browser on too long (???)

Some of you might be familiar with Fluid, an app that allows you to do just what I mentioned above. It has some rather cool features as well. But let’s see some main differences between the two.

These are screenshots of a web app saved using Safari 4 on the left and Fluid on the right. Notice something? That’s right, Fluid version of Facebook seems to be almost 28 times larger. But then again, Safari doesn’t have as much features compared to Fluid. So it’ll all up to user preference, personally I don’t really need Coverflow view of all links on a certain page because even though that’s cool, it’ll just mean that my quota will drain faster.

What are your thoughts? Do we really need such feature? So far I think it’s kinda redundant, but then again I’m not really a web app maniac yet! ;)

Firefox 3 Release Candidate 1 Has Been Released

First impression? Address bar is hell lot faster now digging through the history and favourites. It’s instant compared to the slight delays you would normally get in the beta’s.

Get yours here or just hit up Check for Updates in the Help menu if you’ve got one of the beta’s.

Put the Power of the Web in Your Hands with Quicksilver

Wanna do a quick Youtube search? How about a quick Google translation for “Good morning” in Spanish? Wanna quickly shrink your subway-long url’s with TinyURL? These are just a few of 600+ search engine functions that can be done with Quicksilver.

All you need to do is go Quicksilver => Catalog => Modules

Make sure “Web Searches (from docs.blacktree.com)” is ticked.

Enjoy the power of the web in your hands. As you can see you can even quickly track your UPS package with Quicksilver. What? That’s amazing.

What’s your favourite Quicksilver trick?

If you would like to know what Quicksilver is all about, check out my Quicksilver introduction here.

Adblock Plus 0.7.5.4 is Finally Out

Changes

• Locales added: Hebrew, Malay
• Improved Firefox 3 compatibility
• Changed default keyboard shortcuts to Ctrl+Shift+E (preferences) and Ctrl+Shift+V (blockable items)
• Removed “Check banner links” option

Download Adblock Plus here

* Adblock Plus is an ad blocker addon for Firefox. You should get this addon if you hate ads.

Adobe + Web TV = Adobe Media Player

Adobe has just released a media player that allows you to watch all kinds of programs and even tv shows such as CSI: New York. Sure, Hulu has a wider variety but I was surprised that Adobe Media Player’s shows are watchable from Australia. Hulu is currently restricted to the US.

Let’s hope Adobe puts on more great content on its media player.

Adobe Media Player can be downloaded here