Juha Haataja: Universal MacWhere Did the Mac Go Today?Is Firefox 3 good or bad- June 30, 2008 I browsed Mac OS X software at Versiontracker.com, and noticed Firefox 3 feedback there. It was not pretty. If I would have seen the comments earlier I would probably never have installed Firefox on my systems. But I did, and it works great. I think a lot of the criticism is nit-picking. Some of it is probably quite fair, but I think the picture is much too negative. At least I'm happy with Firefox, and haven't had much problems with it (in fact, almost none).http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/categories/macintosh/2008/07/01.html#a4915 Firefox shortcuts- June 26, 2008 I discovered new good things about Firefox, especially keyboard shortcuts. I'm now using the shortcuts extensively together with this: "Command + L = Selects the location or address bar, where you have to enter any URL or copy the URL." Also, Command + T (new tab) combined with shortcuts is fast way to visit favorite sites. Now I don't any more miss the Omniweb functionality of using Command-1, Command-2 to visit urls on the favorites bar.http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/categories/macintosh/2008/06/26.html#a4910 Not everything is perfect in Firefox 3- June 25, 2008 I discovered one web application which was not compatible with Firefox 3, although it works fine with Safari and Omniweb. It was an accounting system used via a web interface, and for some reason the basic functionality was missing. Probably some differences in interpreting JavaScript.I have understood that Firefox 3 is in some cases more strict about interpretation than other browsers. These other browsers are of course supporting bad coding style, but that is a compromise that you probably...http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/categories/macintosh/2008/06/25.html#a4909 Firefox 3 - how good can a web browser be- June 23, 2008 I have been using Firefox 3 for a while, and I'm a happy camper. I managed to get both bookmark syncing and in-window pdf viewing to work in Firefox. Thus, I don't have much to wish for. Well, perhaps there are some rough corners here and there (minor blemishes in appearance etc.), but nothing which really bothers me. And Firefox has been stable on both my aluminium iMac and my iBook. No crashes, no slowing down - everything works smoothly. There are some things which are better in Safari and...http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/categories/macintosh/2008/06/23.html#a4908 Firefox 3 is great- June 18, 2008 Started yesterday using Firefox 3 on all my Macs. Transferred bookmarks from Omniweb (via HTML file input, some cleanup needed), installed the Adblock addon, switched on color management and faster mousewheel scrolling. One nuisance remains: I am used to the keyboard shortcuts Command-1, Command-2 etc. for selecting the first, second etc. bookmark in the favorites bar, and this does not work in Firefox. Is there a way to get this functionality in Firefox 3A bonus: my blogging software (Radio...http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/categories/macintosh/2008/06/18.html#a4907 Unix is not always a good thing- June 14, 2008 Ssp commented my thoughs on OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard: I think much of the bloat or bloated appearance of OS X comes from its Unix background. Rather than wrapping everything in a single file, things like applications usually come in thousands of files once they are localised and contain help. You can see an (over-dramatised) effect of this if you time how long it takes to copy your iTunes application: much longer than copying that amount of data should take. It may sound like a heresy, but the...http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/categories/macintosh/2008/06/14.html#a4903 Further thoughts on OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard- June 12, 2008 Many have commented on the next version of OS X, 10.6 "Snow Leopard". There is lots of discussion on "no new features" (apart from built-in Exchange 2007 support). But after thinking about this a bit, I think Apple may be able to deliver quite an impact with 10.6. The current version, 10.5 Leopard, has layers upon layers, hundreds () of thousands of files. Complexity upon complexity. What would "think different" be able to do As an example, Apple developed the "launchd" software to replace...http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/categories/macintosh/2008/06/12.html#a4899 EU wants openness - sends message to Microsoft- June 12, 2008 New York Times reports on the EU comments related to Microsoft business practices vs. openness: "I know a smart business decision when I see one - choosing open standards is a very smart business decision indeed," Ms. Kroes told a conference in Brussels. "No citizen or company should be forced or encouraged to choose a closed technology over an open one."http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/categories/macintosh/2008/06/12.html#a4897 What will happen with OOXML- June 11, 2008 ISO put OOXML document formats on hold. This was expected, and not only because of the complaints from the member countries. Now the ISO organization has a possibility to fix its reputation. This was a sordid mess. No wonder Micrsoft announced support for ODF, the competing format, in MS Office.http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/categories/macintosh/2008/06/11.html#a4893 OS X will be even more stable (and faster)- June 11, 2008 I started using Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard in February 2008, although I bought a copy several months earlier. Based on the experiences, I should have made the move much earlier. I very much liked the earlier version of OS X, and version 10.4.11 has been extremely stable, but all in all 10.5 easily surpasses the old one. And for me there haven't been stability problems in 10.5. The newest version, 10.5.3, has now been in use for two weeks on my iMac and iBook without restarts or other interruptions...http://radio.weblogs.com/0112083/categories/macintosh/2008/06/11.html#a4892 |