I saw that Apple has released Safari 4 Beta

I love the way that Apple approaches design and I keep hoping upon hope that they will someday deliver a better, faster  browser instead of one that seems fast for a few things but cannot be your day to day default browser.

I think Firefox is great, fast and ugly.  I know you can skin it, etc.  You cannot turn an ugly troll like Firefox and Explorer into a princess like Safari 4 Beta.  You also cannot teach that princess (Safari 4) to walk and chew gum at the same time.

The game changer might just be Opera 10 (now in Alpha) which I will cover in a separate review.

Here are the raw browser speed test results for Firefox 3.06, Safari 4 and Internet Explorer 8:

Now just wait a second, you say, that’s not right, I thought that Firefox was the fastest!

In actually fact, it’s the fastest stable/compatible browser and today, in my humble opinion the one you want to use as your day to day default browser.

If you want a car to go really really fast, just take out all the things that weight it down, like brakes for instance!

While Safari has great speed results (especially considering how bad they were before under Safari 3) it could not even post this article.  It’s simply not compatible with major web applications like WordPress.

Explorer 8 has continuous crashes and strange bugs relating to Adobe flash.

Firefox is the worker that needs no management.  It’s the only one I update this site with.

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Apple, “We deliver freedom from choice. In the age of Open Source, we give you closed, proprietary products.”

I have a low opinion of Apple’s technical capabilities and here’s why:

Brief History:

• Apple releases Appletalk Remote Access which was stolen from Microcom’s MNP4 and then had 2 bytes switched so Apple could make it proprietary. Then Apple broke the compression in other ways to make sure industry standard devices could not function.  They licensed that ‘technology’ to third party vendors who wanted compatibility. All this while the internet and TCP/IP was starting to explode!  I know, I was there. I consulted to the ARA team at Apple.
• Apple defends the ONE BUTTON MOUSE only to later change to a standard PC mouse.
• Apple chooses Firewire for iPOD data transfer and later has to change to USB like everyone else.
• Apple defends the Power PC Chip (what a bunch of crap!) and then later ditches it to use INTEL standard hardware which it now admits is way better.
• Apple releases the iPhone, which is beautiful, but has been beset with an array of technology problems so severe that they had to be banned on many company and campus networks until problems could be resolved.
• Apple’s iPhone has many features designed to deny users access to the full potential of the device and lock them into Apple proprietary services. Apple again delivers ‘Freedom From Choice’ and ‘Restrictions on benefits’.

I could easily have listed more than 50 strange, technologically impotent Apple ‘technologies’ but that should be enough to get a sense of the company.

In short, Apple has the DNA to make sure that every daughter it produces will be prom queen but often lacking quite a bit in IQ.

While the world is embracing Open Source and Open Standards, Apple continues to create proprietary products.

Now Apple is selling industry standard CPU, Motherboard, Graphics and more at 2x the price for the same products from another company. Why? Because they’ve made them proprietary too.

I’ve got a PC on my desk that runs OSX just fine. It performs as well as the ‘real MAC’ made from the same parts. It costs $800 less. The MAC at the store is not an Apple product and more than my PC on my desk is an Apple product. We bought (Apple and I) our technology from the same place!  Apples value proposition lacks integrity.

When Apple realizes that closed, proprietary systems designed to limit customers use of the products is as dead as the PPC and the one button mouse, then we’ll all be using Apples technology and some of us who are deeply into the open source world, will be very happy to help Apple teach Microsoft a few well deserved lessons.

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AVG, my personal absolute best pick for Antivirus and Anti Spyware for Windows 7 / Vista suffered an attack on their website which as of this writing is still not repaired. I’ve attempted to reach the contacts their and let them know, but nobody is answering the technical contact telephone number.

In addition to modifying the home page, they have disabled all the downloads and insterted a . in front of the clickable links for trial download of AVG 8.

They are a high profile target to be sure and they are certainly not the first anti virus antispyware company to be hacked. Their products are still the best I’ve ever used and on Windows 7, not a single bug, not a single problem and all third party applications report the system as clean as well.

I still highly (yes my mother uses it) reccomend their AVG 8 for Windows Vista and Windows 7 Beta.

See if it’s still hacked and if not, download the NEW AVG 8 FREE TRIAL becuase it’s fantastic! AVG WEBSITE

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Every once in a while a big company comes out with someone so stupid that you just have to laugh (Take internet explorer for instance).  It spends big money to create and market a product.  It takes a lot of work to hype it up and get it enough exposure to become popular.  This is not that kind of product.

Songsmith reminds me of what great toys should look and feel like.  They should be open-ended, encourage exploration and creativity.  Great toys should also be a lot of fun and Songsmith is just that.

Within minutes of downloading the trial version (good for 6hrs), you’ll be singing away with your own back up band playing like a cheap lounge act.  Lacking the will to terrorize my neighbors or render dead and lifeless any plants or animals in the nearby vicinity, I did not, in fact, sing.

I got the vocal tracks from some old Abba tunes, the theme from Bonanza and some of those red hot hits Barney the purple dinosaur used to sing.  For the ultimate test, I used the vocal from Mr Rodgers Neighborhood singing “Won’t you be my yo yo neighbor, boom boom”.  That Mr Rodgers rocks on Songsmith!

For a mere $5 I will send you Barney the dinosaur techno hip hop dance party album (ok, well, not really), but if you were here right now you’d totally laugh at it.

Check out:  Microsoft  Songsmith Free Trial Download

Get expansion packs for it: More Sounds And Songs For Songsmith

If you’re into this kind of music, then you’ll need to go over to Amazon and get the album from Richard Cheese (yep really!).

So Good It Hurts Baby!

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I saw last night that the new Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 Beta RC1 Download is online at Microsoft. It’s dated a 1/26/09 release.

Don’t bother to download it if you are trying the Microsoft Windows 7 Beta since it will not install.

Microsoft may have another version in the coming days or weeks, but at this moment, you will be stuck with the ‘Beta’ version and will not be able to run Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Beta 8 RC1

Just a quick heads up before any other Windows 7 beta testers waste their time.

I assume that the update will appear in the Windows 7 ‘Windows Update’ notices soon.

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Google will soon allow users to save their data to their cloud based computing network as a virtual disk drive.  Tagged ‘Gdrive’, it will allow file syncing and online backup.  Complete integration for Google Apps, a smart sync GDrive desktop client and desktop search utility will integrate this into a great backup solution for high speed internet users.

The drive is virtual, so you’ll have access to it from anywhere on the internet and be able to dynamically connect it to any computer you are using.

A lightweight operating system from Google would make this a complete solution for many users that may be considering Microsoft’s Windows Live and Office Live products.

We’re expecting official news from the big G in the next couple months.

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