Tag Archive | "Safari"
Safari owns over 50% of mobile browser marketshare
Google views the smartphone market as nothing more than a numbers game. Getting Android handsets into as many hands as possible is their ultimate goal, and while they like to tout impressive numbers like 700,000 daily activations, the reality is that Android users are less likely to purchase apps than their iPhone counterparts and that [...]
Continue reading...Safari browser accounts for 5% of worldwide web usage for first time
Saturday, October 1, 2011
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By John Hiesler: Apple’s Safari web browser, for the first time, now appears to account for over 5% of global browser usage. According to a recent report from Net Applications, machines running Safari accounted for 5.02% of all computers connecting to the Internet.
Continue reading...Study claims IE users have lower IQs than Firefox, Chrome, and Safari users
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
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A recent study from AptiQuant suggests that people who use Internet Explorer as their web browser are likely to have a lower IQ than those who use Chrome, Firefox, and Safari. A Vancouver based Psychometric Consulting company, AptiQuant, has released a report on a trial it conducted to measure the effects of cognitive ability on [...]
Continue reading...New bookmarking feature in Safari, dubbed “Reading List”, found in latest build of OS X Lion
Monday, May 2, 2011
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A new bookmarking feature in Safari will offer users the ability to save websites for later reading, a feature which might pit Apple’s browser in direct competition with popular apps like Instapaper. The feature is called “Reading List” and Apple describes it thusly: Reading List lets you collect webpages and links for you to read [...]
Continue reading...Safari in OS X Lion to come with “Do Not Track” tool
Thursday, April 14, 2011
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The Wall Street Journal reports that Safari, following in the footsteps of Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer, will soon offer a new “do not track” feature that will enable users to opt out of tracking cookies which as you know is a time-old favorite of marketers and advertisers. The new feature is a part of the new Safari [...]
Continue reading...Study claims browsing on Android is 52% faster than on the iPhone 4 – but study is flawed
Friday, March 18, 2011
Apple and Android nerds were abuzz yesterday over a report by Blaze, a Canadian software company which claimed that Google’s Nexus S was able to load webpages over an average wi-fi network 52% faster than the iPhone 4. Testing encapsulated more than 45,000 page loads from 1,000 websites with the average load time on the [...]
Continue reading...Thanks to 512 MB of RAM, Safari browsing on the iPad 2 is much improved
Saturday, March 12, 2011
As expected, teardowns of the iPad 2 confirm that Apple’s new tablet comes with 512 MB of LPDDR2 RAM. The original iPad came with 256 MB of LPDDR1 RAM. One of the immediate improvements users of the iPad 2 will experience as a result is a smoother browsing experience on mobile Safari. In the video [...]
Continue reading...Safari owned by French security experts within 5 seconds at Pwn2Own hacker challenge
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Well that sure didn’t take long. Apple’s Safari browser was hacked within just 5 seconds of visiting a specific website at this year’s Pwn2Own hacker challenge. The victorious researchers were French security experts from the security firm VUPEN. The company was awarded $15,000 cash and can now lay claim to a new 13-inch MacBook Air.
Continue reading...Apple releases iOS 4.3 with Personal Hotspot, iTunes Home Sharing, enhanced AirPlay, and faster Safari performance
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
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In addition to the iPad 2, Apple on Wednesday took some time to take the wraps off the long awaited iOS 4.3 update. “With more than 160 million iOS devices worldwide, including over 100 million iPhones, the growth of the iOS platform has been unprecedented,” Steve Jobs stated. “iOS 4.3 adds even more features to [...]
Continue reading...Pixelfari – Safari with a NES 8-bit feel
Monday, February 21, 2011
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Are you fed up with modern day web browsing? Do you long for a text interface reminiscent of your favorite old school Nintendo games? Well, humble readers, your search is over. I present to you Pixelfari, a pixelated 8-bit version of Safari courtesy of Neven Morgan and developer friend of his. The description reads, “ Enjoy [...]
Continue reading...Apple to merge Safari and iTunes – Wild Rumor
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
This one seems way out there, but Three Men and a Podcast anticipate that Apple will merge iTunes into Safari in order to increase browser marketshare and that Apple will announce this initiative at its traditional iPod/Music event held in the early Fall. It is believed that Safari will be the only browser able to [...]
Continue reading...Apple releases Safari 5.0.1, activates browser extensions
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
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Apple today released Safari 5.0.1, a browser update which activates extensions. They’ve also put up a Safari extensions gallery for your perusal. You can download the latest Safari update here. Related: 10 neat Safari extensions worth taking a look at
Continue reading...Apple asks devs to submit Safari Extensions for official online gallery
Thursday, June 17, 2010
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Developers have wasted no time churning out a ton of useful and intuitive Safari extensions, and now Apple is accepting submissions for an upcoming Safari Extensions gallery to be showcased on Apple’s website. Just hop on over to Apple’s dev page, enter in your dev credentials, fill in a form, provide a 100×100 icon along [...]
Continue reading...“Gmailto:” Safari extension is a godsend for browser-based Gmail users
Monday, June 14, 2010
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Just two days after Apple released Safari 5, we covered 10 of more intriguing extensions available for Apple’s updated web browser. Since then, developers have been busy putting together even more interesting extensions bound to make the browsing experience that much more pleasurable. One that immediately caught our eye is Gmailto:, an extension, courtesy of [...]
Continue reading...10 cool Safari Extensions worth installing
Thursday, June 10, 2010
One of the great new features in Safari 5 is that Apple has at last given developers the tools to create extensions, and they’ve wasted no time getting their hands dirty and have already churned out some notable add-ons worth mentioning. Gmail Checker – Don’t bother surfing over to Gmail every 5 minutes with this [...]
Continue reading...Apple issues press release for Safari 5, website curiously not updated
Monday, June 7, 2010
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This is strange, a press release announcing Safari 5 has hit the web, but not only did Steve Jobs make no mention of it during today’s Keynote, but Apple’s Safari webpage hasn’t been updated either. The phantom update is also not showing up in Apple’s Software Update. Hmm, was the issuance of this press release a [...]
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Friday, January 6, 2012
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