Tag : Windows
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Safari 4 public β has come
I got to know Apple has been released their Web browser Safari 4 public beta while reading someone's blog (I forgot who, where, when), so I went to Safari download page and downloaded it.
First, I tried to install in Leopard running MacBook, but it didn't launch. I uninstalled it twice and reinstalled twice only to fail.
so I stopped trying to make it work on OS X and switched to try it on AMD Windows XP machine. It just went well and works fine as the image below shows.
And one of new features, coverflow is really great.
Now tabs are on the top of the windows like Google Chrome and there are many similarities can be seen elsewhere. JavaScipt behaves like Google Chrome does, and I think it works better and fast enough than the older version of Safari.
I think it's a good decision Apple have chosen the new "Windows-like" interface, it now runs as if it were "Windows-oriented" browser. Pretty cool.
But even Apple did a great jobs on their new Safari, Google Chrome is faster at launch, rendering (X)HTML I feel. Yes, it is faster than older version of Safari, and faster than IE7(I don't think 30 times faster as Apple claims, but I think actually it's faster than IE), but I think Chrome is still the fastest browser on Windows platform. so I still stick to Chrome. I'm look forward to see Safari's improvements in the future versions.
OS X Window managing system
I've read this article and really agree with it:
I've been a user of Mac OS X, Ubuntu Linux, and Widows XP, and now I'm testing Windows 7 in my parallels desktop on my MacBook. Every time I use Windows, all I need, the first thing I miss,...is Spaces.
I've found a tool recently which can do the same thing what we can do with OS X Spaces. The application is named "Desktops" and I've been using for about a month and I cannot use Windows without it.
Even there's a solution like this, I still miss Spaces, maybe it is because Spaces is implemented in OS by default and works stable and beautiful. Yes of course I can do the same thing on Windows, but it's not stable enough and it sometimes behaves strange so I have to reboot my system to refresh it occasionally.
I think Windows 7 works far more better and works great and fast enough and I can use it without having too much tech-stress than XP and Vista, so I'm waiting for its official release. I hope Microsoft add more improvements before it comes out on market.
Here is an interesting article which you can see the history of GUI.
I'm so impressed by the work Xerox done on 8010 Star operating system. We can see that the first GUI already implemented the basic GUI metapher everywhere in OS. Pretty amazing.