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Safari now passes acid 2 test!!!

if you’re using a mac with OS X 10.4 (Tiger) download the latest system update, and click here in Safari and take the test. what do you see? it’s a smiley face! don’t all browsers show that cute face? well, not really… click here to see pictures off how other browsers (and older versions of [...]

  • November 2, 2005
  • | Category: Mac
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iPC

It’s ugly, it’s huge, (though the screen is only 17″) and it’s ugly (oops, did i mention that already?) but it has a flash card reader. it’s the iPC, known as Pendant LCDPC-7500 by Tangent. I won’t even try to compare it to the iMac, all i can say is that for an [...]

  • September 4, 2005
  • | Category: Tech
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Safari 2.0.1 – updated WebKit or not?

So Apple released an update for Safari yesterday, version 2.0.1 but my question I can’t seem to find an answer to is, did they update WebKit? (Safari’s engine) Apple’s update information states: “Safari version 2.0.1 for Mac OS X Tiger improves website compatibility, application stability and support for 3rd party web applications.” “improving website compatibility” [...]

  • September 2, 2005
  • | Category: Mac
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WiFi distance record – 125 miles

These guys managed to shoot a 11 Mbit unamplified wifi connection over 125 miles, from Vegas to St. George, Utah, for three hours. Now i wish I had a good wifi signal and a 1 Mbit connection in my room, about 60 feet from the router…
Read about it Here

  • August 1, 2005
  • | Category: Tech
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New WebKit Build Passes Acid2 test

A new build of WebKit, Apple’s open source HTML engine, used for the Safari Browser, Passes The Second Acid Test with score of 100%. the Acid Test is a test page by WaSP using complex HTML and CSS to test if a browser is standards compliant, if the browser passes, it will show a smiley [...]

  • July 15, 2005
  • | Category: Mac, Web
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Sending HTML Mail in Mail.app

There is no simple way to send HTML mail from within mail.app, if you set as plain text and type in the HTML, it sends it as text, displaying the tags. if you attach a HTML file, it sends as attachment (I tested it, hoping it would display inline, just like image attachments). but [...]

  • June 28, 2005
  • | Category: Mac
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The BIg Fear of Mac Users

I think I Finally understand what’s so scary about Apple’s move to X86 processors. Nobody will ever be able to say that Macs are much better then PC’s, as they will be using the same processors. yes, Apple will use better hardware like RAM and stuff, but the brain of the computer is the processor, [...]

  • June 15, 2005
  • | Category: Mac
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HP HBP Countdown Widget!

I got the idea from a PPC2×86 countdown widget (code reused with permission from the author) I know it’s a little late for this… but the last month is still the most exciting! this widget will count down the days, hours, minutes and seconds remaining until the release of Harry Potter and the Half [...]


Apple – Intel Inside

OK, so yesterday Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs announced that the future macs, starting from sometime 2006, will be using Intel x86 chips. You can read abut it here, here and here, and watch the WWDC keynote here. Is this good or bad?Well, my first reaction was NO!!!, but thinking about it, why not? [...]

  • June 7, 2005
  • | Category: Mac
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