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“Highly unlikely” would probably be how you’d have responded a year ago to someone telling you two of the largest tech companies in…
The popular international messaging app WhatsApp has unveiled a web browser-based version of its service. In a blog post, the company announced…
Apple iPhone and iPad owners are probably pretty happy with how most iOS apps look on their devices, but perhaps a second…
Now that third-party browsers can take full advantage of the Nitro JavaScript engine in iOS 8, Mozilla is taking the plunge to build Firefox for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch devices.
After waiting for months to see the feature graduate from beta, Google’s Reader Mode for Chrome is in the stable browser on Android. It’s still experimental though; here’s how to enable it for a cleaner browser experience.
Microsoft is moving forward with Skype in a browser with a new beta version announced for IE, Chrome, Safari and Firefox. You’ll still need to download a plug-in but the company is working on using RTC to alleviate that requirement.
If you haven’t used Safari on your Mac in years, there’s a number of new features in OS X Yosemite that make it worth another try.
Chrome for iOS was my go-to browser… until I got a larger iPhone 6. The old version didn’t scale very well on the big screen. Now, a software update rights that wrong and adds better support for using Google Drive files within Chrome.
After using mobile bookmark sync tools for years in the early smartphone days, I’ve completely abandoned such bookmarks without even realizing it. Mobile apps and improvements in mobile browsers are the main reasons why.
Google wants WebP to become the internet’s next dominant image file format. That’s not likely going to happen anytime soon — but WebP could still have a huge impact.
iPhone users will soon no longer have to input credit card numbers manually, thanks to a Safari feature in iOS 8 that uses the onboard camera to read the number off a physical credit card.
Google landed in hot water in 2012 when a researcher found it was tricking Safari and Internet Explorer browsers into accepting cookies. A judge, however, threw out a class action lawsuit on the grounds that the advertising tactic did not actually harm consumers.
Chrome usage on iOS in North America has doubled since it launched. The data comes from a Chitika study on the company’s ad network. Google’s clever “linking” of its apps may be a big help since you can’t change the default iOS browser.
Developers playing with the previews of Safari for iOS 7 and OS X Mavericks have discovered the inclusion of Russia’s leading search engine as an option in some countries for the first time.
Photographers have long relied on RAW images — the actual image data from a camera sensor. But the web doesn’t work with RAW images. Or does it? Pics.io has a browser-based tool where RAW images on Google Drive can be viewed or edited.
There’s both good and bad in Google’s news that it would be forking WebKit to create the Blink rendering browser engine. It really comes down to motive: Is it just for speed of development or for more control over web standards?
Safari on the iPad utterly dominates tablet web traffic. Yet the experience of the web with tablet browsers is terrible, as users get an irritatingly predictable experience.
There were no Fight Club posters, no cutesy codes names for the team building Apple’s web browser, just a dedicated group who valued extreme secrecy, according to Don Melton, the guy who led the Safari and WebKit projects at Apple.
Second quarter of 2012 represented three good months for planet broadband, particularly for the US which saw big gains in higher broadband speeds. In addition, Japan got faster and more countries are offering more broadband to more people. But there is some bad news as well.
After running OS X 10.8, or Mountain Lion, for the past few days, I am reaching more for my iPhone than my Galaxy Nexus. The “grand unified user experience” approach of Apple has everything to do with that, and it could blunt Android’s momentum.
Google (NSDQ: GOOG) continues to find itself in compromising positions in 2012: the latest comes after an investigation by The Wall Street J…
Google’s Chrome browser and Android mobile operating system went public in the same year but they haven’t converged until now. Google is finally introducing Chrome for Android, a robust beta with a lot of slick features which is limited to Android 4.0 devices.
On both iOS and OS X, there exists an URL scheme that Safari supports that will launch FaceTime directly. It’s a great way to let you provide others with a quick and easy way to get in touch via video chat, or to manage FaceTime contacts.
You may have found that since upgrading to OS X Lion, your browsing experience with Safari has changed slightly. Your web page could be jumping out at you for no obvious reason due to increased touch sensitivity. Here are some possible fixes.
Boasting 9 million users, one the most popular third-party browsers for Google Android devices, Dolphin Browser, is now available for Apple iOS devices. My hands-on shows many nice features: tabbed browsing, gestures, and a Webzine view. But there’s one huge sticking point for Dolphin on iOS.
WebKit technology is what powers some of the top browsers (especially mobile) today. While Apple and Google are its most visible champions, the support for WebKit and ancillary technologies is coming from unlikely quarters such as Amazon and Boxee. Here’s its new BFF.
Apple is already working on a fix for a security flaw reported by the German Federal Office for Information Security Wednesday. The Mac maker said in a statement that it is “developing a fix that will be available to customers in an upcoming software update.”
Today is Social Media Day, so in honor of that, I’d like to offer a few tips about making your iPhone a more social device. You could just wait for iOS 5 and the Google+ iPhone app, but why bother when iOS offers plenty already?
Firefox 4, released today, includes a lot of new features, including tabs-on-top, App Tab and a new full screen mode. All are features which aren’t present in Safari, and ones that have me eager to stick with Firefox 4 for the long haul.
Flash Player 10.2 is beta no more, and the general release promises better performance and less CPU usage through Stage Video. Stage Video provides for “a full hardware accelerated video pipeline,” reducing CPU utilization by as much as 85 percent.
I’ve used Safari as my default browser since 2008, but lately I’ve decided to give Google Chrome a shot at becoming my new standby. I made the switch owing to Chrome’s reported performance advantages. Would they prove convincing enough to make the change permanent?
I stumbled upon this trick a while ago when I was moving a background Safari window by holding down the command key while dragging. I hit the title of a Safari window, and a popup sprung up showing me a directory list.
Just released from Apple, Safari 5.0.2 addresses a few usability issues, as well as three security flaws that might get your Mac or PC pwned. Two of the three security issues affect both Safari for OS X and Windows.
With the newly released Safari 5.0.1, extensions have now gone public. Here’s a list of seven extensions you should install right away. Have you been playing around with Safari extensions? What are your favorites so far?
Apple today announced the release of Safari 5.0.1. When Safari 5 was released in June, it included support for extensions so that developers could start building them, but without access to the Extensions Gallery, users had no easy way to find and install those extensions.
Apple (s aapl) has opened up the Safari extensions gallery for third-party submissions in preparation of opening the gallery to the public. While you can install extensions now, you need to first know where to download them.
Google Chrome is now used more than the Apple Safari browser in the U.S. for the first time on record with an 8.97 percent share, according to StatCounter. But both browsers are built on WebKit, which is becoming more important on desktops and the mobile web.
Cries of outrage — and conspiracy theories — have erupted over a new feature in Apple’s latest version of the Safari browser. The “Reader” setting extracts just the text from a page, excluding advertising. But claims that this will destroy ad-based content online are absurd.
Apple’s new Safari 5 brings support for browser extensions, which the company plans to showcase on its own gallery in a few months. In the meantime, we’ve compiled a list of some of our favorites.
Apple quietly released a major upgrade to Safari, bringing the browser up to version 5.0 for both Mac and Windows. Safari 5 brings several welcome improvements, including a new “Reader” mode, improved HTML 5 support and a new extensions architecture.
Welcome to the first installment of ‘Tips and Tricks.” These articles will aim to teach you some handy things you didn’t know about common things on your Apple stuff. So, let’s start our series with Safari.
Earlier this week, O’Reilly’s Safari Books Online launched Creative Edge, a portal built for creative professionals. It’s an on-demand digital library of useful tutorial and reference content: videos, books and tutorials from a range of different publishers,
Mac (s aapl) users are missing out on cheap (read: free), social customer relationship management. Windows users have xobni, a simple tool…
Looking at data from web metrics firm Net Applications, the first month of the new year was not big news for Apple…
While the debate over Mac versus PC will last for eternity, one of the elements that many “diehard” PC users have thrown…
The last report for 2009 from web metrics firm Net Applications ends another solid year of growth for the iPhone OS. In…
As predicted, Chrome has eclipsed Safari in web browser market share. According to web analytics firm Net Applications, Chrome’s share is now…
November was not a great month for Apple (s aapl), at least according to web metrics firm Net Applications. While one could…
Safari version 4.0.4 is now available, the 30MB update promising improvements to “performance, stability, and security.” Regarding security, the update addresses several…
For October, OS X 10.6 and iPhone OS 3.0 continued to make incremental gains in market share, as did Safari. Unfortunately for…
Eighteen percent of Mac users are running Snow Leopard just one month after its release, according to Web metrics firm Net Applications.…
[show=leveltwentysix size=large]The heroes of Anthony E. Zuiker’s “digi-novel” Level 26: Dark Origins, in bookstores today, face off against the most grotesque serial…
Canadian company Research In Motion (s rim), maker of the ubiquitous BlackBerry, has bought software developers (and webkit aficionados) Torch Mobile, according…
Updated with additional details throughout: Yahoo (s yhoo) is releasing a series of updates today for its Mail and Messenger consumer web…
Just over a month since Safari 4.0.2 made its way into Software Update, Safari 4.0.3 has arrived for Mac and Windows. The…
VoIP is a hot form of communications for the savvy mobile consumer. Skype has millions of users, which shows how important VoIP has become to folks. While many mobile phones are capable of VoIP communications, many handset makers don’t promote that fact because of concerns about crossing the mobile carriers. The recent Google/Apple tussle over the banning of Google Voice from the iTunes App Store was reported to be instigated by AT&T.
The premiere iPod in Apple’s line of media players, the iPod touch has been described as an iPhone without the phone bits, and that’s pretty accurate — but it is capable of placing VoIP calls. The ability to have voice calls over the Internet for low cost or even free is easily done with the iPod touch due to the Wi-Fi functionality, but you don’t hear Apple selling that function. Doing so would raise the hackles of AT&T and Apple’s other carrier partners who, as a rule, don’t like the competition VoIP provides for their voice networks.
But do callers really need a carrier? If a company stepped in with a gadget similar to the iPod touch, equipped with heavily-promoted VoIP capabilities, such a device could be well received by the mobile crowd. A handset that trumpeted its ability to put “Skype in your pocket” (or a similar promotion) could be an instant hit with today’s cord-cutting consumers.
With support for emerging web standards in HTML 5 and CSS3, topflight built in developer tools, fast performance, and the other 150…
According to web metrics firm Net Applications, July was a very good month for Apple (s aapl). OS X was sharply higher…
Although Safari improves with every version released, it remains difficult for one browser to cater for everyone’s needs. Firefox has successfully approached…
As you may already know, one of the improvements that came along with iPhone 3.0 was mobile Safari’s ability to access the…
Apple (s aapl) has released version 4.0.2 of Safari for both OS X 10.4 and 10.5 (but not Snow Leopard), as well…
For much of this decade, Mozilla and its Firefox browser were the upstarts, out to beat the big, bad Microsoft and its…
Apple has a history of either buying apps or boldly copying features from developers and including them in OSX. So what borrowed features could we see in OSX next?
I’ve been running the release version of Safari 4 on Mac OS and Windows XP for a few days. There are a…
Although available as a public beta since February 24, the final version of Safari 4 was introduced on Monday at WWDC 2009.…
Net Applications measures market share based upon Internet usage from some 160 million visitors to a network of hosted sites each month.…
iPhoto is perfectly capable of displaying your photos as a slideshow or one at a time. But you’re limited to a flat display that doesn’t exactly “wow” anyone. With one simple download, you can view your iPhoto collection on a visually stunning 3D wall, right in your Web browser.
Since Apple (s aapl) doesn’t provide detailed release notes with each of their beta installments, it’s understandable that details about less obvious…
We had a sneak peek of the new QuickBooks Online back in January at Macworld Expo, and now the Mac community can…
Rahul Sood, co-founder of Voodoo PC, which was acquired by Hewlett-Packard back in 2006, sent me his Macbook Air competitor PC yesterday.…
One of the reasons I can’t completely cross over to using Safari 4 as my full-time browser, aside from its dangerous (considering…
The Safari 4 beta was released a mere two weeks ago, and I sometimes feel as if the battle over title-bar tabs…
Paul Thurrott has weighed in with his opinion of the new Safari 4 update, and he’s not impressed. While no surprise, it’s…
Safari has come an awfully long way since its conception, and today marks the beta release of the fourth major incarnation of…
We’re living in a cross-platform and cross-browser world. Most web workers aren’t one-browser-fits-all. I have two computers: a MacBook Pro and an…
According to the official WebKit blog, the browser rendering engine now supports some explicit CSS animations. A recent nightly build brings support…
If you have Safari, on either Windows or OS X, you could be open to malicious attacks whereby users can gain unauthorized…
In the event you were too distracted by the festivities associated with the ringing in of the new year and missed the…
Google’s Chrome browser came out of beta today. Chrome is critical to the company’s overall cloud-centric computing vision, yet after more than…
Today, Mozilla has released Fashion Your Firefox, a new Web application that enables Firefox users to customize their browser based on their…
Major League Baseball signed a new agreement making Adobe Flash the provider of the MLB’s live and on-demand video.
Yesterday, Apple released Safari 3.2 for both Windows and Mac (Tiger and Leopard). As usual, Apple’s normal update announcements are a little…
Gears, Google’s “browser improver” (for lack of a better term), has come out of beta and is now officially available for Safari.…
I emailed my brother a picture of us when we were little to use as the picture that pops up when I…
In the last week, two major flaws have been reported, one in downloading .ICS (iCal) files, and one in Safari’s carpet-bombing problems.…
Today, Davaid Wantanabe announced that Yahoo has acquired the rights to his popular Inquisitor for Safari. Congrats to David, and a big…
I am an unabashed fan of Camino, the best damn mac browser. Today with the release of version 1.6, it became a…
Apple posted an update to Safari that – amongst other fixes – patches 4 vulnerabilities in the Windows version and 2 in…
John Gruber points out something that I must have seen a zillion times and never noticed: The deep integration of Google Search…
WordPress, the open source blog management software, has released version 2.5 of their popular web application. WordPress has been quickly adopted because…
Mozilla CEO John Lilly posted a scathing post about Apple auto-updating Windows users’ iTunes and Quicktime programs while adding in Safari 3.1.…
In addition to running The Apple Blog, I also run an interactive design/development firm called Sabotage Media where we build interactive jazz…
Today Apple released its first major Safari update since the release of Leopard. Taking a look through the improvements it would seem…
The iPhone 1.1.3 firmware update added some great stuff, including Safari WebClips. I’ve literally added a dozen or more to my home…
Since upgrading to Leopard (and thus upgrading to the newest version of Safari), I’ve had the unfortunate problem of Safari throwing all…
Sigh. One of my favorite add-ons for Safari, Inquisitor, has unfortunately been removed from my computer. As reported by TUAW, Inquisitor alters…
Here’s a quick tidbit on a new feature of Safari 3 in Leopard. The RSS button in the address bar now support…
Single Click Downloading I was cruising around looking to spruce up my desktop and got to a page that offered many wallpapers…
Mac software maker Market Circle has released iPhoney, an open-source iPhone simulator for web developers. See how your websites look on the…
Web developers have been more and more concerned with coding for mobile devices. Now that the iPhone is here, I wonder if…
When Microsoft embedded Internet Explorer with Windows, it was an obvious anti-competetive move intended to thwart the growth of the Netscape browser…
Last night, I made Safari my default Web browser in Windows. With any luck, I won’t be turning back to Internet Explorer…