Apple released the next — and potentially last — upgrade to its Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard operating system Wednesday afternoon, bringing minor tweaks before the debut of Snow Leopard in September.
The latest update to Leopard includes security fixes, improves Bluetooth reliability, and upgrades Safari to version 4.0.2. It is available for Mac users via software update, or a 274MB file for download from Apple. The combo update is also available at 759MB.
“The Mac OS X v10.5.8 Update is recommended for Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard users and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and security of your Mac,” reads an Apple statement.
The list of fixes for Leopard are as follows:
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Here’s the Terminal command you can copy and paste in a new Terminal window to get back the previous progress bar right into the latest version of Safari (4 beta) then you’ll know the percentage of the page loaded:
defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4IncludeToolbarRedesign -bool NO
defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugSafari4LoadProgressStyle -bool NO
killall Safari & open -a Safari
Just wanted to share with my dear readers my favorite Safari plugins, you’ll love even more browsing the internet on the fastest and most beautiful browser ever.
- Inquisitor, I already made a review on this application a long time ago, the latest update is Safari 4 beta ready.
- Cosmopod, I also made a review on it a long time ago (the actual version is also Safari 4 beta capable)
- Cooliris a multimedia way to navigate the internet, it is just awesome, it worths a try (MacAmour is Cooliris ready)
- VLC plugins for Safari
- Some classics of course are highly recommended like Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight
Based on Presto 2.2 known to be 30% faster in displaying websites with a lot of Javascripts content, Opera 10 gets a 100/100 in the Acid 3 test. This performance has only been reached by Safari 4 (only available for developers as this post is being written).
Same interface, small improvements in spelling correction.
Download Opera 10 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
Wrote a blog post on Google Desktop when it has been released more than a year ago, and to be honest, in that time I didn’t love that application that much and I even removed it from my system.
Today, I confess, I can’t live without this application anymore, it is installed on my 3 Macs and on my work PC.
The application once installed and once your HD indexed acts like an application launcher, like a Google Desktop Search Engine, and like our dear Spotlight.
To call it, all you have to do is to hit “command” twice, this little box will appear in the glimpse of an eye:
As soon as you start typing, the application starts gathering results from your HD (just like Spotlight does):
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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/)
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.
