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Apple Safari 4 – Trick to replicate Opera’s Sessions or Chrome’s Restore Pages option
Jun 19th
With Safari 4 released by apple many would like to try using this browser, likewise I too jumped into the fire and tried my hand at the new Safari 4.
The browser has a nice dose of the eye candy, the Cover Flow, the visual History pretty much the browser version iTunes.
Leaving the eye candy aside and talking about functionality one thing that hindered me from using the browser was the feature Sessions that we have in Opera and also chrome. In fact I was once a die-hard fan of Firefox but thanks to a buggy PC that crashed any time it wanted I kept loosing bookmarks and all the tabs that were open while browsing.
Opera pretty much saved me while that PC lasted, now Opera has pretty much become my default browser and no browser seems to take me away from it. Although Chrome a browser from Google though seems to have caught my fancy, the simple Ui and the “Most visited” feature is quite attractive.
Apple releases information on new iPhone 3GS
Jun 9th
Apple today at the WWDC 2009 released information on the new iPhone called the iPhone 3GS.
The new iPhone 3GS features are as here under -
iTunes 8.1 adds iPod iCon to your My Computer View
Mar 16th
Updating to the latest software of some of your favorite software is what every techie always looks out to. Being a techie myself so do I.
Updating has benefits while sometimes does not but lets talk about iTunes 8.1 ,iTunes 8.1 now adds a cool icon to your My Computer view. This icon will matches up to your iPod that you are syncing with iTunes. For me it is the iPod Touch and it added a cool Touch Icon to my My Computer view.
iPod Touch iCon
Right Clicking on this Icon in the My Computer view gives you more information about your iPod which includes the serial number and the Firmware version.
This icon certainly looks chic, way better that what we earlier used to see which was a default portable player icon that windows assigned. Wished it rendered information like Microsoft’s Device Stage would have done, it shows as a “Digital Camera” in the Details Pane in Vista.
Any ways Kudos Apple 
Apple Releases New iPod Shuffle now with Voice Over
Mar 11th
Apple has now upgraded its iPod Shuffle line which will be the 3rd Generation of this model.
The upgrade will be seen in the models Design as well as will consist of new controls. The Shuffle now sports a vertical design. This design will be missing the regular operation buttons.
iPod Shuffle 3G
The buttons now are moved over-out rather, the buttons will now be available on the ear phone cord rather than on the player itself. These buttons will also host the new “Voice Over” feature that Apple has introduced with this Player.
The Ear Phone cord will have 3 buttons , 2 Volume Control buttons while one in the Center will act as the “Play” ,”Pause” ,”Next Track” ,”Previous Track” button. The Voice Over feature can be used by this very Center button.
The Buttons function this way
- + Up - Volume Up
- - Down – Volume Down
- | Middle Button -
Play/Pause: Single click
Go to next track: Double click
Go to previous track: Triple click
The Voice Over Feature
To hear the title and artist of the song playing: Press and hold center button. To move between playlists: Press and hold center button and release after you hear a tone. When you hear the name of the playlist you want, click to select it
The Voice Over Feature is unique in its kind, you can now just speak into on the ear phones and get the player to play the Track or the Song without even touching the buttons. If you have created Playlists, speak into the mic the playlist name and viola the player plays the playlists. If thats not all, the player also announces the Artists, the Albums and even your Playlists for you to choose from.
Apple’s Site says this about the feature “iPod. iTunes reads your song information, then uses the new VoiceOver Kit to generate the announcements for the songs, artists, and playlists on your iPod shuffle.”
Voice Over will also available in other languages.
The player does look promising and looking at the size of it ,it sure does pack a punch with the new added “Voice Over” feature.
But there is always a but, better not loose those ear phones, also the people who do not like the default ear phones will be dissapointed, which seems to be quite a chunk of iPod Users, me included. But well as the saying goes “Necessity is the mother of invention” I am sure lots of ear phone manufacturers have already geared up to cater this demand.
Apple Safari 4 Beta Out
Feb 25th
Apple has released a Beta Version of its up comming lateset verion browser Safari 4.
Apple has posted “150” new features for this browser, below are some of them courtesy neowin.
Features:
Top Sites, a display of frequently visited pages in a stunning wall of previews so users can jump to their favorite sites with a single click;
- Full History Search, where users search through titles, web addresses and the complete text of recently viewed pages to easily return to sites they’ve seen before;
- Cover Flow, to make searching web history or bookmarks as fun and easy as paging through album art in iTunes;
- Tabs on Top, for better tabbed browsing with easy drag-and-drop tab management tools and an intuitive button for opening new ones;
- Smart Address Field, that automatically completes web addresses by displaying an easy-to-read list of suggestions from Top Sites, bookmarks and browsing history;
- Smart Search Field, where users fine-tune searches with recommendations from Google Suggest or a list of recent searches;
- Full Page Zoom, for a closer look at any website without degrading the quality of the site’s layout and text;
- Developer Tools – built-in web developer tools to debug, tweak and optimize a website for peak performance and compatibility; and
- Windows-native look in Safari for Windows, that uses standard Windows font rendering and native title bar, borders and toolbars so Safari fits the look and feel of other Windows XP and Windows Vista applications.
Download: Apple Beta 4
iPod Touch Software 2.2.1 out!
Jan 27th
Was Syncing my iPod Touch, tried checking whether there was an update and this is what popped up.
iPhone 2.2.1 Software Update for iPod touch
This update contains bug fixes and improvements, including the following:
• Improved general stability of Safari
• Fixed issue where some images saved from Mail do not display correctly in Saved Photos
• Fixed issue that caused some Apple Lossless (ALAC) audio files to skip during playbackProducts compatible with this software update:
• iPod touch
• iPod touch (2nd generation)For feature descriptions and complete instructions, see the user guide for your iPod touch at:
<http://support.apple.com/manuals/ipodtouch>For more information about iPod touch, go to:
<http://www.apple.com/ipodtouch>To troubleshoot your iPod touch, or to view additional support information go to:
<http://www.apple.com/support/ipodtouch>This update contains security content originally included in previous iPhone Software Updates. For more information, please visit this website:
<http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1222>
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