Apple has just released Safari 5.1 with lots of new features and is now available for download for both Mac OS X and Windows users. New features include Multi-touch gestures, Reading List and full screen browsing. There are some new Privacy and security features that have also been introduced. Complete official release of new features in Safari 5.1 is given below:  Read more...

Permalink: Download Safari 5.1 With Tons Of new Features [OS X & Windows]

Facebook’s big announcement this week was the unveiling of their new integrated video chat feature using Skype as the back end. This new feature allows users to directly call their Facebook friends, right inside of the web. Unfortunately, this new feature is not available to Lion users and the latest beta of Safari. Clicking on the icon will give you an error that your browser or OS is not supported.  Read more...

Permalink: [How To] Enable Facebook Video Chat in Mac OSX Lion

Just after today’s iOS 4.3.2 update for iPhone 4 GSM, iPod touch 3G/4G and iPad 1/2 and iOS 4.2.7 for the Verizon CDMA iPhone 4, Apple has rolled out another update for Mac OS X. Its a security update 2011-2012 which should fix the “embarassing 5 second Safari pwnage” demonstrated in pwn2own contest held earlier this year. With it an Safari 5.0.5 is also available for download. It is highly recommended to grab these on you Mac OS via software update option.  Read more...

Permalink: Apple Pushes Security Update 2011-002 & Safari 5.0.5, Recommended Download!

Well, well, well. Steve Jobs wouldn’t be sitting easy after reading this. Safari on Mac OS X fell to hackers at Pwn2Own contest in just 5 seconds! That’s incredibly scary by any means but the good news is, the exploits used to do this aren’t going to be released in the wild for wrong usage. A close second was Internet Explorer 8 ( who uses that? Get IE9! ), which fell to three different vulnerabilities and custom exploits.  Read more...

Permalink: Safari Pwned in 5 Seconds Followed by Internet Explorer 8 at Pwn2Own Contest – Chrome Survives!

This is actually a really cool tweak. In fact once you start using it, you’ll never go back to the native tab switching in mobile Safari for iPhone. Its called ‘GridTab For Safari’ and is available for jailbroken iPhone and iPod touch running iOS 4.0 or above. The tweak allows you to view your opened Safari tabs in a grid, much like the native tab viewing in Safari for iPad. This makes it a lot smoother to navigate through the opened tabs while browsing on your iPhone or iPod touch.  Read more...

Permalink: [Cydia Tweak] ‘GridTab For Safari’ Brings iPad Like Tabs In Grid Layout To iPhone & iPod Touch

Apple has just rolled out a critical update for its Safari web browser to version 5.0.3 for Mac OS X and version 4.1.3 for Windows. The update addresses a major issue of showing wrong “Top Hit” results in the Safari address bar upon typing (now its fixed and gives priority to bookmarks and history) along with several security enhancements, increased compatibility, speed optimizations and various bug fixes.  Read more...

Permalink: [UPDATE!] Safari 5.0.3 For Mac & 4.1.3 For Windows Now Available For Download!

Apple is slowly removing flash from almost all of their devices. It first started with no support for flash in their iOS devices and now the new MacBook Air ships without flash (although it can be installed manually). But this makes almost no difference to Mac users as HTML5 is the future technology for vide and rich internet applications according to Apple and most websites are already adjusting according to that. Mac users would also have noticed that while using YouTube, their MacBooks get hotter as Flash consumes a lot more CPU cycles than most applications. But you can now install a new YouTube5 Safari extension which makes sure that YouTube videos will be e-wrapped as an HTML5 video stream.  Read more...

Permalink: YouTube5 extension for Safari converts YouTube videos to HTML5 to avoid Flash and save CPU cycles

A new tweak on Cydia called Cicero lets you customize your search engines in Safari. I had been waiting a long time for a tweak like this to add Bing to Safari before iOS 4. Cicero lets you add any search engine that complies with OpenSearch standards ( almost all major search engines and site specific search engines do this. for e.g. YouTube, Wikipedia etc ). This allows you to do site specific searches without loading up the website first. Blessing in disguise.  Read more...

Permalink: Cicero lets you add any OpenSearch compatible Search Engine to Safari in iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch [Jailbroken Devices only]

French website MacGeneration has published images of support documents by Apple that show a list of new features that will be available in Safari 5. These features include a new Reader for article reading and improvements in HTML5 support with new features such as geolocation, full screen HTML4 video support and much more. As expected improvements to JavaScript performance are also in the changelog which show it to be 25% than Safari 4. These improvements will be accompanied with better page caching and DNS prefetching for faster browsing. And did I mention Bing will be available as a search option in Safari 5?  Read more...

Permalink: Apple to announce Safari 5 with Reader and Bing, OS X 10.6.4 and Xcode 4 at WWDC10

A huge number of websites ( including this one ), use Google Analytics to track Internet traffic as well as traffic patterns. A large set of data can be gathered based on  user’s location such as location, OS version, browser version and much more – although the user can not be personally identified. Even then, Google has decided to release a browser add-on which lets users opt-out of Google Analytics. This seems like a move in reaction to steadily rising privacy concerns about online services and websites such as Facebook and Google.  Read more...

Permalink: Google provides browser add-on to opt-out of Google Analytics