New Apple Lust Objects

Bit worried about Acid search as the guy has not updated since 2005, any other good search plugins?

Inquisitor, definitely. It used to be pay-for, is now free, but the guy is updating it. It pulls Google results as you type, so you can get to the top three hits w/out ever seeing google.

http://www.inquisitorx.com/safari/

wtf @ no proxy settings in Windows version of Safari. I also killed it once already.

wtf @ no proxy settings in Windows version of Safari. I also killed it once already.
If this means it goes straight outside, then yey. Shitty IT admins at work locked down proxy settings in IE so we have to use web filtering proxy

Right, we have that too, but we also have a proxy that just captures all port 80 traffic. I usually (hope no admins see this) use a local ssh tunnel to send all of my web traffic to the outside world on a less-noticeable port and browse whatever the fuck I want, unproxied and unlogged.

oo resizing the add a comment box here.

so that, inline find, dragging tabs. anything rly good tho? :-(

I strongly suspect that WinSafari has little to do with IE and Firefox competition than it does with giving iPhone developers a platform for testing apps.

Inquisitor works with the Safari 3 beta

Why is this shit still brushed metal on OS X?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v134/tracerhand/stand.jpg

(that is my pimped out safari which i would have to painstakingly rebuild using stone-age tools from 2006)

Haha, mine used to look like that, I just tire of all the re-theming tools and crap.

OK, I'm just up to the point of spamming now, but you just know that making a URL to call someone on the iPhone is going to be call:// or something equally insecure, right? It'll likely have to prompt the user with a "call blahblah?" dialog. This is so braindead it's perfect and stupid at the same time.

Eh, you'll probably be able to set some pages/apps to be trusted for call://

i'm seeing CSS3 stuff -- curved corners at least

Inline search is pretty neat in Safari 3

WinSafari crashes for me when trying to play video on APPLE'S OWN SITE.

Also it refuses to recognise the thumb button on my mouse, which I'm used to using for "back" and which I feel disabled without. UNINSTALL.

i'm gonna wait till safari 3 isn't beta is what I'm gonna do.

yeah ditto

i'm pretty irritated that my bookmarks are scattered across three different browsers as it is

HTTP://DEL.ICIO.US

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del.icio.us is my friend. that google browser sync thing also ain't half bad, if you use firefox everywhere

Foxmarks is great.

Is that better now? It used to make FF on Mac crawl like fuck on some text entry fields. xp

The extension for firefox that lets you use del.icio.us basically like bookmarks is v. v. handy indeed.

where/how can i test how contenteditable support has changed?

(never mind, if i spoof as netscape the wordpress RichText editor works a treat now, and that's good enough for me.)

A few weeks or months ago Jon linked to a site that gauged best time to buy Macs based on expected revision dates. I can't remember the name of the site, can JW or anyone else repost link plz?

http://mactactic.com/

Though bear in mind they've had the iMac at 100% replacement likelihood for quite some time. I think http://buyersguide.macrumors.com is better, as it gives you more information on cycle history.

took my mother to get a new MBP at the Apple Store today - they're nice. Screen (matte, in this case) appears to be a serious improvement over the last generation.

Thanks, Alba.

Hmm, I'm thinking it may be time to go ahead with the new Mac Pro. I was going to wait for Leopard, but why should I?

The only drawback to the Mac Pro are RAM costs, which have gotten more reasonable since I bought mine (from $400+ to ~$250 for 2GB) but are still high. Dunno if Intel has made any chip advances that would make Apple update soon.

Speaking of brushed metal, ever see this or this?

Okay, I R impulsive. I just ordered the Mac Pro. I'm thinking another 8GB of RAM on top of the 1GB onboard. You guys recommend Crucial, OWC, or someone else?

Crucial is overpriced. Prior to this MP I always bought my Mac RAM from OWC (they didn't have it in stock when I ordered this stuff from somewhere else long forgotten) and never had a problem.

"8GB of RAM on top of the 1GB"

that's seriously overboard. wtf u do with all that?

more and better shit than you

8GB of RAM on top of the 1GB

You could give some of it to ILX! That's 4.5 times what it has!

You think 5 (4 + 1) would be plenty? I tend to have Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Acrobat all running at once, plus Word, Firefox, Mail, Thunderbird, SSX, iTunes and a couple of other little things. Also, I don't know what kind of hog Leopard is going to be when I move up to it.

Finally, a reasonable subversion client (say folks in on the alphas)
http://www.versionsapp.com/

Fuck it, this is a work investment. Why shouldn't I have 9GB?

What does it come with, 2x512MB still? If so, I would say 2x2GB to fill all four channels without the latency of multiple sticks.

An entire CS2 suite+Word through Rosetta will eat up a shit-ton of memory, so you might find yourself wanting more in the future, but I'd start out with that.

latency of more sticks, I mean.

CS3, but still.

Hmmm.

No point having more than 4GB until leopard ships, IIRC.

I don't know any serious coders who use a GUI front end for any version control. I don't think this is because the GUIs are shit either.

Version control's not just for coders! I know a little team of writers who will be delighted by this.

I like a visual client for merge conflicts and browsing the history. For most stuff I use the command line.

I really want an IPhone. Anyone know how much they're going to retail for?