When Apple released the 10.5.2 update I was so excited, but even after trying to download the disk image (354 mb), I got a corrupted file in my dowload folder.

First thought that came to my mind: “I need a download manager”. And what was my surprise when I tried Speed Download! Downloads are faster than ever, the user interface is superb and the file I got was perfectly working.

After restarting my Mac, the only thing I wanted to do was to reward the developers of this superb software solution for OS X, so I went to the website and discovered how powerful this application is!

Basically here are the major capabilities Speed Download has:

In this image you can see the super cool icon this application has, but also the features it has.

1. full integration to OS X with Safari, iTunes and iDisk support
2. .Mac/iDisk/WEBDAV connectivity
3. a FANTASTIC encrypted file sharing system between Macintosh users (who have Speed Download)
4. a FTP client!

The latest version of SD 5 has an iTunes-like user interface that will probably charm any OS X user:

In terms of performances, the application dramatically increases the download speed and of course enables you to pause/resume any download (without being obliged to start from the begining if Safari 3 beta ever crashes again in the middle of a download).

You can consider this application as a “must have” like all the other applications with a review on this blog. Once again, I’d like to thank Yazsoft for bringing us such a beautiful, multi-function, OS X integrated and powerful application who saved me from the error -4960 (corrupted disk image) and my time and patience to get the latest OS X updates:

You can download a free trial version here.

A selection of tips for Safari 3 beta aimed at the average Safari user as well as more experienced users. Includes undocumented features that can be enabled through the Terminal such as the Web Inspector and the pie chart progress indicator. Also explains some more well known features such as merging windows and bookmarking all open tabs.

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This is the ultimate and best plug in for Safari, it’s not a standalone application, it just adds a panel to your Safari with many many many useful functions like ad banner blockin, full screen navigation etc..

You’ll find the huge full list of features after the jump…

Download Saft here.

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A very cool Safari plugin! Once installed, it just creates a new tab each time you double click on the Safari’s tab bar and if you ever have a URL in your clipboard it just opens it when you click twice on the tab bar.

Free, easy and useful!

Download Twicebar!

I discovered this cool function accidentally, you can actually increase a text field area with a click, here’s a video I made to illustrate this:

You can change the Safari progress bar from the “classic” location bar filled from left to right to a pie chart progress indicator like this one:

This trick only works on Safari 3 beta.

Open terminal in Applications>Utilities and type (or copy/paste):
defaults write com.apple.Safari DebugUsePieProgressIndicator -bool true

If you want to revert to the old progress bar, go to terminal once again and type:
defaults delete com.apple.Safari DebugUsePieProgressIndicator

Here’s what you can do with Safari 3 beta’s tab:
* drag and drop them (to reorganize them)
* drag a single tab down to open it in a new window