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news of 2003-01-08

Apple Shows Humour ;-)

a.c. posted the following on konqueror.org's discussion of Apple giving back their source changes and the effects on konqueror's and Safari's further developments: "Navigator, Explorer, Konquoror - Safari is only natural for exploring a conquered land. They do have a sense of humour."

Get it? :) We navigated through wads of strange HTML... We explored the seven seas of the web. We konquered it finally, and now we - the tourists - are there on Safari. (fryke)

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[ written by fryke™ on 2003-01-08 at 13:24 CET ]
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Apple's X11 And OpenOffice.org

As you can see, OpenOffice.org 1.01 (Public Beta) runs beautifully with the installed Mac OS X theme. Apple's included Quartz support for X11 applications works fine in this release. I had to start OpenOffice.org a few times before it stopped crashing on startup, but this is mentioned in the release notes of OO.org. Sadly, X11 uses the American Keyboard settings and other settings have to be done by hand. Not userfriendly enough for 'users'. This might change, though.

Write in with your experiences on different X11 versions around... (fryke)

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[ written by fryke™ on 2003-01-08 at 09:03 CET ]
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New PowerBooks

Apple now has all the PowerBooks you want. From 12" to 17" (with price reduced 15" models inbetween), Apple has all the style and the power. Choose between portability and screen size: They're all cool. While I personally prefer small size for portability reasons, the 17" PowerBook is certainly the perfect mobile workstation if you have a bag it fits in. It's a pity there's no Bluetooth in the 15" models, though. But we're voting for a silent upgrade (which would also remove one option from the catalogue that's quite grown now...) soon. (fryke)

-> Read more at: Apple's PowerBook Pages
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[ written by fryke™ on 2003-01-08 at 01:36 CET ]
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Safari - And Its Future

While Apple's claims of Safari beingt the fastest browser on Mac OS X may not be altogether true at this point in time, it shows Jaguar's teeth more than any other browser out there today. Chimera is sometimes faster (depending on the task), sometimes Safari is. For a first beta, the application is incredible - as you'd expect from an Apple application. (Is this one an iApp at all?) ;)

If you look on Konqueror's (where Apple got the KHTML source) pages, you'll find that its developers are adding tabbed window browsing support to the source, so Apple might add that also in a future (or the final?) build. We sure send our feedbacks to Apple that we're interested in that feature.

Whatever your first impressions are, add them to iCity in the comments link below, and don't write Safari off at first sight. It might have shortcomings, but remember that it's been out there only a few hours... (fryke)

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[ written by fryke™ on 2003-01-08 at 01:32 CET ]
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