Archive for the ‘safari’ Category
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010
Aside from the usual random speculation about Steve Jobs worldchanging release in a few hours time, there have been a few interesting articles recently, namely
I also wonder what the cool feature will be… Mesh networking? Biofeedback? Merging with other nearby devices to form a larger device? Inbuilt projector?
It will also be interesting to see if Apple launches any updates to their 17 inch MacBook Pro as they would probably always have done if they were attending MacWorld this year. Also, I predict an iPhone software update, an iTunes update and a Mac OS X update.
Now, lets sit back and see how wrong we all are…
Posted in Airport and WiFi, Apple, Education, Human interface design, Humour, MacBook, Network, Newton, Programming, Software, VoIP, iPhone, iPod Touch, iTablet, safari | No Comments »
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
From WWDC:
40 million iPhones + iPod Touches have already been sold, 1 Billion apps downloaded in 9 months.
iPhone 3GS – S=Speed, some 2-3x faster, looks like it has the same form factor.
- Supports OpenGL|ES 2.0 and 7.2Mbps HSPDA
- 3 megapixel autofocus camera, tap to tell it where to focus, Macro mode to 10cm, better low light sensitivity
- Also captures video! 30fps, VGA with audio, auto-focus/white-balance/exposure
- Edit video and send it to YouTube, MobileMe, MMS or e-mail
- Voice control – “Play songs like this”, “Call Scott”
- Digital compass
- Accessibility – VoiceOver, color inversion, zooming
- Nike+ support
- Data encryption
- Instant remote wipe, encrypted iTunes backups
- Improved battery life, 9 hours of net, 10 hours of video, 30 hours of audio, 12 hours of 2G talk, 5 hours of 3G talk
- Eco-friendly construction, arsenic free glass, BFR free, mercury free LCD
- US$199 for 16Gb, US$299 for 32Gb, US$99 for 8Gb iPhone!
- Available June 19th in US, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, UK
- Progressive roll out to another 6 countries a week later, no Australian dates yet
iPhone 3.0
- cut/copy/paste/undo
- MMS support (later this year for AT&T customers)
- Search, Spotlight
- iTunes U now on iPhone iTMS
- Rent and purchase movies from phone
- Finer grained parental controls
- Bluetooth tethering to share connection “Requires carrier support” (ie presumably they just need to allow it!)
- Safari Javascript 3x faster
- Support for HTTP streaming audio and video, automatically determine best quality (what codecs I wonder?)
- HTML5 support
- Software based keyboard in portrait and landscape
- Find my iPhone, for MobileMe users shows last known location of the phone, lets you play a sound and send a message, and remote wipe the phone if necessary (to be restored from backup if you find it later).
iPhone Demos
- Asphalt 5 – car racing game
- Airstrip
- Critical Care – Monitor patient vitals via Push
- ScrollMotion – create digital books for the App Store, download them from inside the app
- TomTom – turn by turn direction app, and car accessory kit via the Accessory framework
- Star Defense
- Plus Network
- Pasco – sensors for iPhone
- Zipcar – lets you find a zipcar and remotely honk the horn and unlock the car so you know which one is yours!
Tags: compass, iPhone, iphone_3gs, WWDC
Posted in Apple, Hardware, Human interface design, Programming, Video, iPhone, safari | No Comments »
Saturday, March 21st, 2009
The Paciello Group Blog has an article about how MAC (sic) browsers stack up with respect to WAI-ARIA role support. Safari 4 beta narrowly edges out the Opera 10 Alpha by exposing one more role than it, both for a paltry 14 and 15 out of 59 roles respectively.
Tags: accessibility, Mac, opera_10, safari_4, wai_aria
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Friday, February 27th, 2009
aTV Flash from Fire Core is a US$49.95 piece of software which when loaded onto a (compatible) USB flash drive key adds lots of features to your AppleTV such as
- More video formats (including DivX, Xvid, AVI, WMV, RMVB, DVD and some MKV)
- Enables internet apps like Safari, FTP, SFTP, SSH, SMB and streaming from NAS devices
- Enables external USB hard drives
- Enables USB keyboard support
- Allows installation of other Mac OS X applications (like EyeTV for example)
Tags: AppleTV, apple_tv, atv_flash, avi, divx, eyetv, mkv, wmv, xvid
Posted in Apple, AppleTV, Hardware, USB, Video, iTunes, safari | No Comments »
Monday, November 17th, 2008
The latest edition of Mac Daily Journal (1st page as PDF here) reveals that Safari 3.2’s anti-phishing technology relies on downloading a database of prefixes of URL hashes from Google to check against your current URL, using the Safe Browsing 2.1 protocol. If the match is positive then a full URL hash is requested from Google.
Not that Apple mentions this anywhere, nor has stated a related privacy policy about what Safari sends to whom.
Tags: anti_phishing, google, safari, safe_browsing
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Friday, April 11th, 2008
MacJournals has reprinted its article on why Input Managers shouldn’t be considered ‘plugins’, namely because they’re hacks, rather than interacting via a sanctioned plugin API.
Tags: hacks, input_manager, macjournals, plugins, safari
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