Posts Tagged ‘Safari’

Week in Apple: WWDC 2010, iPhone 4, Safari 5, oh my!

Posted on June 13th, 2010 • Filed under mediarosa • No Comments

Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference dominated the week, and what a week it was. The new iPhone was finally announced, as was the release date for iOS 4. Safari 5 came out (and of course, we tested it), and awards went out to notable Mac, iPhone, and iPad developers from both Ars and Apple. Need a primer on the top news from the week? Read on.

iPhone 4 unveiled: gets HD video, LED flash, dual cameras: Apple unveiled the newest version of the iPhone during Steve Jobs’ WWDC keynote, featuring an ultrathin design and vastly improved camera.

Ars at WWDC 2010: hands on, pics of the new iPhone 4: We got our hands on an iPhone 4 and played around with it to see how it felt, how the video functions work, and more. Check out some of our pics.

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Apple faces patent suits over iTunes Store, Safari, Mac OS X

Posted on May 22nd, 2010 • Filed under mediarosa • No Comments

Apple is involved in some curious patent cases filed this week in Texas federal district courts. One suit claims that Apple’s iTunes Store (among many others) infringes on a patent for what is essentially an online store for music downloads. Another lawsuit claims that Safari, DVD Player, Front Row, and even Mac OS X itself infringe on a number of patents related to adjustable length displays of textual and other data.

The first lawsuit, filed in the patent-friendly Eastern District of Texas, comes from Sharing Sound LLC, which holds the rights to a patent for “distribution of musical products by a web site vendor over the internet.” The patent in question describes what is functionally any website you’ve ever visited to buy a music download, including song previews, a shopping cart, and even an accompanying app to play legally purchased music. The patent targeting Apple has a provision that downloaded songs have a unique identifier included in the file to link the files to a particular purchaser.

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Dell Mini 9 with OS X – worth it!

Posted on June 14th, 2009 • Filed under mediarosa • No Comments

Just a quick follow-up to the post on setting up my Dell Mini 9 hackintosh. It’s a great little machine. Yes the keyboard is small and some of the keys are in odd places, but not odd enough to keep me from using it.

Stats: Dell Mini 9, OS X 10.5.7, Safari 4

Having found right away that I needed, wanted, Copy and Paste function keys, I sorted that out. So Command and Control keys work just fine.

I’ve experienced a couple of crashes, but no more frequent than when I was running Ubuntu. Shutting down and restarting is only a minor inconvenience since 1) boot time is quick, and 2) most of what I do is either on the Web, or because I habitually save often, is not at risk.

The most noticeable improvement over Ubuntu is scrolling in the Web browser. Safari is much smoother and offers more control.

I’ve also found the Dell to be pretty rugged. Dropped and kicked on a concrete sidewalk resulted in just a few minor scratches.

Verdict on the Dell Mini 9 Netbook? It makes me happy.