Privacy has always been a concern ever since the dawn of smartphones and digital devices. Suffice to say certain privacy rights have been scandalously breached. Adding to those incidents is a new mess involving Apple and Google where the latter might have to compensate the UK Apple iPhone user population by as much as £750 […]
Breaking Safari Privacy Rules Is A Bad Idea, Here’s Why
Before you start installing some shady 3rd-party extensions for Safari, you might want to hold off. Apple is treating anyone who breaks Safari privacy rules as outliers to be purged, like malware. Despite the strict rules surrounding Apple’s premiere web browser, their intentions might still be for your user safety. The tech giant is reportedly […]
Secure Safari: How to Stay Safe Using Apple’s Browser
It’s the second most popular web browser in the world, but it doesn’t mean that you are fully protected from online security hazards. Sure, Apple has done their utmost to secure Safari, and for all intents and purposes, they have done a very good job. There is some onus on the user themselves to fine-tune […]
Mozilla Won’t Bring Firefox to iOS Because Apple’s Acting Like a Jerk
I use Firefox on my Mac. Sometimes I use Chrome. I never use Safari. When it comes to my iPad, I’d much rather use Firefox. But that’s not happening anytime soon. Here’s why.
How Apple Optimized iOS 4.2.1 With Web Devs In Mind
Apple has included a major amount of fixes and tweaks in iOS 4.2.1 — here’s a look at a few at what’s new in Safari that will entice Web Developers and how Apple is working to squash a sluggish user experience. Better RAM Management — Apps Faster Over Beta Versions A large concern iOS users […]
Safari 5 Released
There have been rumblings about this for a while now, but it’s official: Safari is now Safari 5, and it’s available right now. From the official press release: Apple® today released Safari® 5, the latest version of the world’s fastest and most innovative web browser, featuring the new Safari Reader for reading articles on the […]
Google Chrome Vs Safari
There’s an interesting article over at Business Insider, about how Chrome is kicking Safari’s butt currently, and how that will lead to the downfall of Apple as a company. Maybe I should just pull out a quote at this point so you get the idea. Last time, the software platform that killed Apple was Microsoft’s Windows. This […]
ClickToFlash – Make Using Flash Your Choice
The past few weeks, there’s been a lot of talk about Adobe’s Flash. The iPad doesn’t run it, and neither does the iPhone, which is either the best thing that’s every happened or the biggest catastrophe since WWII. Me, I’m on the fence. I never really thought that I ran into Flash frequently on the […]
Safari 4.0 Beta – A First Look
This morning Apple released a Safari 4 Beta. They have dubbed the release “The World’s Fastest and Most Innovative Browser”. It certainly is speedy, and there are some interesting new features – but not all of them are unique to Safari as the PR might have you believe. (que fanboy ranting…now!) Some of the innovations […]
Netflix starts testing “Watch Instantly” on Mac w/ Silverlight
We’ve heard for a while that Netflix was going to be bringing their “Watch Instantly” feature to the Mac “soon”. Well, finally, they have begun to test this using Microsoft’s Silverlight browser plugin. If you’ve thought the Microsoft Silverlight plugin was useless or annoying, the fact that it will finally bring Netflix over to Mac […]
UPDATED (again): Web Apps DON’T work offline in Safari 4
I received an email this morning shortly after posting about the Snow Leopard screenshots from a reader and developer. They provided the screenshot above which clearly shows the Windows version of Safari 4.0 having saved the AppleGazette RSS feed as an offline application. The file is an .exe – making it a full blown Windows […]
Safari for Windows 3.1.2 released – fixed 4 security flaws
Apple has released an updated for Safari on Windows. This newest release, version 3.1.2, includes “stability improvements”, and security updates. The update fixes a WebKit bug where a malicious JavaScript could crash the browser, an “information disclosure” involving BMP and GIF files, and two other fixes that address problems with code execution when files are […]
Apple releases “Snow Leopard” details
Apple today announced that at least some of the rumors started by TUAW are true. The next version of OSX will be called “Snow Leopard”, and it will not showcase any new features. “We have delivered more than a thousand new features to OS X in just seven years and Snow Leopard lays the foundation […]
Safari Hack exploit was public for almost a full year
Last month a Macbook Air was hacked very quickly…you may have heard of it. Well, it turns out that the “zero-day” exploit in Apple’s Safari browser was actually found in the open-source software library called Perl Compatible REgular Expressions or PCRE, which is used by many products including Safari, Apache, and more. Security researcher Chris […]
UPDATED: PayPal may ban Safari if security isn’t beefed up
PayPal is reportedly stepping up security measures to prevent phishing scams, and that new security may just kick Safari users to the curb. Chief Information Security Officer, Michael Barrett, posted a new policy last week that outlined his plans to put an end to phishing scams which includes blocking fraudulent e-mails, criminal charges against phishers, […]
