The Google Earth Plug-in and its JavaScript API let you embed Google Earth, a true 3D digital globe, into your web pages. Using the API you can draw markers and lines, drape images over the terrain, add 3D models, or load KML files, allowing you to build sophisticated 3D map applications. If you have an existing Maps API site, you can 3D-enable your page with as little as one line of code.
Get Google Earth Plug-ins here.
Apple just released this update for Safari through the Mac OS X Software Update. The latest version of Safari provides improved security as well as protection from phishing websites
For those of you wondering how to remove Inquisitor from their system here are the locations of the files to delete (while Safari is closed) to remove it:
Inquisitor.bundle (in Library/InputManagers/Inquisitor/)
Inquisitor folder (in “user=you”/Library/Application Support/)
inquisitor.pkg (in Library/Receipts/)
inquisitorPreflight.pkg (also in Library/Receipts/)
inquisitor folder (in Library/InputManagers/)
Last part of the detailed analysis of Firefox 3.
As I’m typing this post, I’m using Safari 4 developer preview, this post isn’t 100% neutral because my favorite browser ever is Safari….
If you take a look at the resources used by both browsers, you’ll notice Firefox 3 needs more CPU than Safari, which is not a good point for the latest version of Mozilla’s Firefox.
Popup Ad blocking is a feature that we don’t need to talk about anymore: it became a “normal” feature.
The new Google smart search bar isn’t better than Safari + the Inquisitor Add on (released more than a year ago).
As I said previously, Safari’s displays pages in a much better quality than Firefox 3.
Performances? I’m expecting to see very soon a benchmarking made by professionals to see which of the web browsers is faster, but honestly, when you have a very fast internet connection, it comes a point when you won’t feel any difference between two browsers.
The only good point for Firefox seems to be the ability for users to install Add ons (that will surely use more bandwidth and make the browser consume more system resources).
Safari 4 adds the ability to save pages as web applications, a feature that do not exist for the moment on Firefox 3.
My very own Conclusion: I’ll stick to Safari of course (expecting a lot from Safari 4); and I’ll wait for Camino 2.0 to install as a secondary browser.
Apple has given developers a preview copy of Safari 4 via the Apple Developer Connection website.
Safari 4 Developer preview is available for Mac OS X Leopard, Tiger and Microsoft Windows.
I downloaded this “small” package of 26.8 MB and it’s the same application of course, same shape.
This preview is also available for Tiger and Windows.
Safari 4 adds the ability to Save a webpage as an application. Also spotted in the Safari preferences is the ability to specify whether new tabs or windows open with; home page, same page, empty page or bookmarks.
Here’s a screenshot of Safari 4:
PS: the small iPod button is an application, CosmoPod.
I hate it when Safari opens a new window while I’m browsing like always (tabs only).
It seems Apple has heard me by adding a terminal command to Safari 3.1 that will definitely fix the issue of some pages that opens in a new window (like Gmail’s).
Close Safari, Open Terminal and copy/paste this command line:
defaults write com.apple.Safari TargetedClicksCreateTabs -bool true
Once that’s done you must restart Safari in order for this to take effect.
This awesome icon replacement for Safari is free.
Created by Jonas Resk, this superbly designed icon will give your Safari’s application in the dock a very modern look!
This icon is compatible for Mac & PC.
You can download it by clicking here.
You’ll find right inside the archive a set of this icon in 5 different colors and a CandyBar ready package.
As of Safari 3.1, double-clicking on a free area in the tab bar opens a new tab. I’ve wanted this feature since it was introduced in Firefox, and now my favorite browser has it, too.
