Apple today released the first public beta of Safari 4, which sports a redesigned interface that resembles Google’s Chrome, as well as support for all of the major Internet standards, and a large range of new and enhanced features. Among these new features are a reimagined start page with a speed-dial interface similar to what Opera and Chrome are currently
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Filed under: Software, Internet Tools, Apple, Beta Beat
Well, it’s Tuesday, and that often means a software release from Apple. Today, both Mac and Windows users can scarf up a beta copy of Safari 4, with many new and desirable features. Here’s a download link for those who are ready to go.
The new browser features:
Cover Flow — You can browse through
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Welcome to the future, Safari fans, because the Safari 4 beta just hit the download shelves and it’s ready to tear some things up in Tiger and Leopard and even Windows. The download requires the latest security patch (2009-01) but other than that you’re ready to ride. Guess what? Javascript is 4X faster!
And that’s not all. The press release appears
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Palm Pre lovers, prepare to wet yourselves – the one many are calling the second coming of the Jesus phone will support Flash! That’s right, Palm announced that it has officially joined the rank and file of Adobe’s Open Screen Project, meaning that not only will the Pre be ready to surf websites sporting Flash animations, but the WebOS SDK
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Filed under: TUAW Business, Podcasts
Last week, Dave, Christina & Mel joined me for a deep dive on the iPhone app-cracking controversy, with special commentary from guest & veteran developer Kai Cherry. We had a couple of recording hiccups, but you can still download the show from Talkshoe or subscribe in iTunes.
This week, while we keep one eye on the NBA
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Ever needed to test some markup or CSS for how it renders? Typically it’s a tedius process of creating a HTML file, saving it, and then viewing it in a browser.
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could test this easily within the browser itself? Well, Greg Taff thought so and as a personal project created
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Technibble, the Australian site for aspiring computer techies, recently released the second version of its popular Computer Repair Utility Kit, a collection of 57 hand picked tools to help you diagnose and repair your Windows machine.
While all of the utilities are freely available online, this all-in-one kit saves you the trouble of searching for and downloading them individually. Most
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Do you regularly work with your webpages and AdSense implementation, tinkering with HTML or PHP and creating images and code on the fly? If you do, Firefox add-ons can help streamline the process of creating webpages. Here are some in particular that you may find useful:
ColorZillaThis extension tells you which RGB or hex color you’re looking at, to help you
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Earlier this month, developer and mashup extraordinaire John Herren released Reading Radar, a mashup that combines the New York Times Bestseller’s API with Amazon’s API, and created a simple, purposeful site dedicated to listing the popular books on the New York Times Bestseller list.
Using various open source technologies such as jQuery, the Yahoo! User Interface Library and the Maintainable Framework,
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Post by Zhanyong Wan, Software Engineer – Engineering Productivity Team
Since we open-sourced the Google C++ Testing Framework in July 2008, many people have asked us when we will release a mocking framework to go with it. You asked, we listened; today we released the Google C++ Mocking Framework under the New BSD License. It is inspired by popular Java
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By Pawel Solyga, Summer of Code Administrator for the NUI Group
The Natural User Interface Group (NUI Group) is an interactive media group focused on research and creation of open source machine sensing techniques, such as voice/handwriting/gesture recognition and touch computing, to benefit artistic and educational applications. Additionally, the NUI Group is a world wide community offering a collaborative environment for
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By Borja Sotomayor, Ph.D. Student, University of Chicago and Summer of Code Mentor
The Globus Alliance is a community of organizations and individuals developing fundamental technologies behind the “Grid,” which lets people share computing power, databases, instruments, and other on-line tools securely across corporate, institutional, and geographic boundaries without sacrificing local autonomy. Globus currently hosts more than 20 projects, actively developed
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By Tim Cox, Software Engineering Team
The usual mixture of free pizza, beer and talks recently made for another smashing London Google Open Source Jam. The topic was Security, and the talks showed just how wide-ranging the subject is:
Ben Laurie — Caja, a framework for running untrusted Javascript
Ben Smyth — Security protocols and how to express them, and why online voting
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By Lindsey Simon, Google User Experience Team
Most web developers have felt the pain of discovering or remembering ways in which different browsers interpret and/or render their Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). Our newly released CSS Selector Shell is a simple Javascript tool for testing how a given browser parses CSS text by inserting a style element into the document and then
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By David Oster, Mac Engineering Team
For those of you not following the Google Mac Blog, you may be interested to check out one of our newest releases, Earth Surfer. The code for Earth Surfer, an application that allows you to use a Nintendo Wii Balance Board to travel over Google Earth in a milk truck, is based on Thatcher Ulrich’s
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By Leslie Hawthorn, Open Source Team
You may recall some of our previous posts about Google employee contributions to Open Source during their 20% time. While many engineers spend their 20% time on releasing code created internally at Google, many more spend their time contributing to external projects just to scratch their own itch. We’re pleased to bring you some updates
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Recently, a lot of new non-relational databases have cropped up both inside and outside the cloud. One key message this sends is, “if you want vast, on-demand scalability, you need a non-relational database”.
If that is true, then is this a sign that the once mighty relational database finally has a chink in its armor? Is this a sign that relational
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