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Why does Safari crash so much?

February 24, 2011 By 16 Comments
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I have hated Safari since Tiger. Granted, it was an improvement over IE for Mac but a sneeze or butterfly breeze can cause Safari to crash. Its  slow response to ad servers is infuriating and, OMG! Heaven forbid a webpage like HuffPO, NYTimes or BusinessInsider has a flash ad in its header. Initially I thought it was specific to my computer, my ISP, or my deodorant. However, I never seem to have the same issues with Firefox. Sometimes Firefox launches and loads a webpage while Safari is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: MacOsX, Workflow Tagged With: browser, crash, mac, safari

The application Mail quit unexpectedly – GrowlMail problems

June 11, 2009 By 2 Comments
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One of my favorite–yet least mentioned–free utilities is Growl, a universal notification service for Mac that lets applications notify you of events. Now instead of each application deciding on how they want to present notifications for things like new mail, incoming tweets, etc. you can control it in a single place, assuming the application supports Growl or an extension has been written for it. Such is the case with Mail.app. Though Mail.app is not written to support Growl the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Parallel Desktops Tagged With: api, app, apple, application, davidalison.com, EA, FIN, mac, php, safari

Keeping those bookmarks synchronized

April 17, 2009 By 1 Comment

I'm torn. On one hand I like Firefox because of the incredible array of add-ons, especially for developers building web applications. On the other hand I love the performance I get from Safari and with the release of the version 4 public beta many of the new features. As a result I find myself jumping between the two browsers all the time, often keeping both open (one for browsing, one for my current web development project). Compound this with the fact that I have two Macs I use … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Parallel Desktops Tagged With: mac, safari, windows

Enable ICC Profiles in Firefox 3.x

April 13, 2009 By 1 Comment

The folks at Mozilla have quietly trumped all the other browsers (with a notable exception) in the area of more correctly displaying colors in photos. So quietly,in fact, they aren’t enabling it in their browser without a minor hack of the registry.  Firefox by default in NOT color manged! That aforementioned notable exception? Safari, of course. Cross-platform (OS X AND Windows), Safari just works – no registry hacking required.   Turning on Firefox is very easy. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Featured, Media, Photography Tagged With: apple, color management, firefox, icc, icc profiles, mac, safari

First impressions of the Safari 4 beta

February 26, 2009 By Leave a Comment

When Apple released the beta version of Safari 4 I thought, "whatever". While I like Safari and find it to be a perfectly capable browser I am hopelessly addicted to Firefox with its extensions and add-ons. Then I started to see some of the articles coming out about the new Safari and two things got me interested: speed improvements and a new UI for tab management. I pulled down the Safari beta and installed it on my MacBook Pro, which has 4GB of RAM and is running the latest … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Parallel Desktops Tagged With: apple, firefox, safari

After a week with the iPhone, what’s great, what’s not

August 24, 2008 By Leave a Comment

I've had my iPhone for a little over a week now and figure it's a good time to settle in and talk about what I like and dislike about it. I have not really changed my calling habits too much as a result of having the iPhone; the way I use the phone in general is about the same as I've done in the past. Where it has changed my daily activities is in the additional stuff I can use it for outside of being a simple phone. No longer do I get stressed out about having to waste time standing in line … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Parallel Desktops Tagged With: app, camera, Contacts, Flash, iCal, iPhone, itunes, mac, Newsgator, safari, sync

Safari or Firefox?

August 23, 2008 By Leave a Comment

When I was a Windows user I went through several generations of browsers. Starting off with Mosaic, then on to Netscape Navigator and finally, since I was a hard core MS guy, Internet Explorer. Of course back then we called the early versions Internet Exploder because the thing would frequently crash in spectacular ways. Over time Internet Explorer improved and became fairly stable, though it had a huge number of security holes that Microsoft could never seem to get on top of. Once Internet … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Parallel Desktops Tagged With: firefox, safari