Linked List: June 11, 2007

Monday, 11 June 2007

Jon Hicks on Safari 3 

Browser connoisseur Jon Hicks looks at Safari 3.

(He’s wrong that it doesn’t offer session saving, it’s just that it isn’t automatic — you have to invoke History → Reopen All Windows From Last Session.)

Safari on Windows Uses Mac OS X Style Font Anti-Aliasing 

Does iTunes for Windows render on-screen type like this, too? (I’m guessing no.)

Safari for Windows also uses Mac OS X-style push buttons, pop-up menus, etc., and it uses Lucida Grande as the app’s UI font. Other than the top of the window, it’s hard to tell it apart from the Mac version.

Leopard Automator Is Recordable 

Interesting:

In Leopard, Automator has a new recording function, so you can easily automate just about any application. Simply click the Record button in Automator and demonstrate the task you wish to automate. You can play back the task as many times as you need, and even edit what was recorded to refine your automation.

Everything Old Is New Again 

Paul Mison points out (by way of Dan Hon) that Leopard Mail’s automatic recognition of things like dates and places in the text of a message sounds a lot like the old Apple Data Detectors.

Michael Tsai on Leopard’s Menu Bar 

I had the same thought when I saw the transparent menu bar.

New in Leopard: Fast Boot Camp Switching 

This is new, and went unmentioned in the keynote:

Leopard brings a quicker way to switch between Mac OS X and Windows: Just choose the new Apple menu item “Restart in Windows.” Your Mac goes into “safe sleep” so that when you return, you’ll be right where you were. It’s much faster than restarting the computer each time. Likewise, a “Restart in Mac OS X” menu item in the Boot Camp System Tray in Windows makes for a faster return to Mac OS X. With Windows hibernation enabled, you can pick up where you left off.

New Apple Web Site 

Long overdue redesign. Looks great. Those 10.1-style tabs were apparently taken down the basement and shot, too.

Safari 3 Public Beta 

Final version will ship with Leopard in October, public beta available today for 10.4 and, in the only significant surprise of the day, Windows XP and Vista. Good old ice water.

More Ice Water for People in Hell 

Very thirsty down there. Very thirsty.