Apple along side their iPhone 3.0 update, released an update to Safari. The update (4.0.1) comes little more than a week after it’s launch. Here are Apple’s characteristically sparse release notes:
“This update addresses incompatibilities between Safari 4.0 and certain features in iPhoto ‘09, including Places and Facebook publishing.”
The download is 43MB in size and can downloaded via Software Update.
Today Apple released Mac OS X 10.5.7 to the public. Here are the release notes:
The 10.5.7 Update is recommended for all users running Mac OS X Leopard and includes general operating system fixes that enhance the stability, compatibility and security of your Mac.
Yeah, that’s it. That’s all Apple gives you in the way of release notes.
Apple then later in the day released security updates and new versions of Safari. The security update (Security Update 2009-002) comes in four flavors; two for Tiger (PPC and Intel) and two for Server Tiger (PPC and Intel). This update also comes with scarce release notes simply saying “…Is recommended for all users”.
Lastly, Apple released new versions of Safari to the public. Safari 3.2.3 comes in three flavors Tiger, Leopard, and Windows. Apple also released an updated version of Safari 4 but it is only available for Mac OS X 10.5.7.
With the release of the Safari 4 Beta some plugins stopped working (or worked partially), that is the case of Inquisitor.
Inquisitor is a plugin that allows you to search using Google or Yahoo without leaving the current page that you are watching, it is like Google suggest but it shows a little preview of the website text in a great looking black interface.
Current version is 3.2 v61, and it finally works with the latest release of the Apple browser.
Since the release of the iPhone OS 3.0 Beta, developers and curious people had been playing around with the new features of the next version of the Apple iPhone operating system, one of this new functions is open links in new windows using Safari.
To use this feature we have to press and hold the finger a few seconds over the link, doing this, an options menu will pop up to let you choose an actions, this can be Open Link, Open Link in New Page, Save Image or Copy (yes, copy!).
The iPhone OS is getting better and better, there’s no doubt that Apple cares for the users.
Apple has issued another update to the Safari browser — the second in just two weeks. The new update, version 3.2.1, became available yesterday via Software Update. Release notes for the new update simply said:
This update includes stability improvements and is recommended for all Safari users.
It is speculated this update follows reports from many users who downloaded the 3.2 Safari update and who are suffering from frequent crashes, particularly when the new anti-phishing feature was enabled. A thread on the Apple Support Discussions forums entitled “Safari 3.2 Is Unusuable – Spontaneously Quits,” has 112 posts at the time of writing, mostly from users who are finding Safari unusable after the 3.2 update. And it’s not the only one of its kind either. The same post has also had over 4,000 views, most probably from people who have typed in to Google “Safari 3.2 keeps crashing,” desperately looking for a fix.
I have had no problems with the 3.2 update, but then I have not enabled the anti-phishing feature.
If you’ve had problems with 3.2, let us know if 3.2.1 has solved them!
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Today the long-awaited iPhone/iPod Touch 2.2 firmware became available through iTunes, just as previous rumors had suggested. The new update includes everything we expected plus a little more.
Street View is now a feature of the Maps application and this is something I was looking forward to. I had chance to play around with it for a bit earlier today and it’s certainly quite impressive. It’s cool to take a walk around New York when you’re thousands of miles away. As well as routes for driving, Maps now also offers public transport and walking routes.
Podcast downloading is another feature included in the update. You can now download podcasts directly from iTunes on your device. The Safari bar has changed and now displays both the address and search bars side by side, just like the Safari browser for Windows & Mac. Other features in the update include improved sound quality for visual voicemail, fewer call drops and decreased call set-up failures, the option to turn off auto-correction when typing, plus lots more.
One thing that was rumored that hasn’t materialized was the ability to tether the iPhone and use it’s connection to access the internet on a computer. Some believed this would be another feature we would see in 2.2 however its absence is a disappointment.
The download weighs in at around 250MB but is certainly worth the wait. For more info, visit Apple’s software update page for the iPhone.
According to Greek blog iPhone Hellas, they have received word from a ‘reliable’ source that the new iPhone firmware 2.2 will be released next Friday on November 21st. To back up their claims, Gizmodo has expressed that iPhone Hellas is also a ‘reliable’ source.
The beta of firmware 2.2 has been in the hands of developers for a while and we have already heard leaks of the new features it will include, some of which are:
The last iPhone firmware (2.1) was released back in September and for many made vast improvements to the operation of their iPhone. I installed the update and found that I had far fewer call drops, no more keyboard lag and not one crash since.
I for one will be keeping my fingers crossed and my mouse pointer poised on the ‘Check for Update’ button in iTunes come next Friday — I am very much looking forward to Google Street View and podcast downloading. I wonder if Apple has fixed the flaw that allows jailbreaking of the new firmware?
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If you’ve visited the Apple start page lately you’ll already know this, but for those of you who haven’t, it’s been redesigned.
The start page is the default homepage for Safari and unless you change it, Safari will load this page on start up. As usual with Apple, the page is very clean and simple, it’s easy to find what you’re looking and the content catches your eye. It’s also quite informative — it features any current promotions or new releases, Apple’s ‘Hot News’ headlines and also what’s hot in iTunes this week.
If you’ve got a spare couple of minutes, take a quick look!
Opera Software, developers behind the well-known Opera Internet Browser have developed a browser for the iPhone entitled ‘Opera Mini’. However, don’t expect to be downloading it from the App Store anytime soon — NYTimes have released an article that claims Apple will not allow the browser to be distrubuted through the App Store because it ‘competes with Apple’s own Safari browser’.
It is speculated that the rejection from Apple could be due to the application’s Java script interpreter, or just that Apple is restricting anything that competes with their own applications already built-in to the iPhone. Recently they rejected an application called ‘MailWrangler‘ because it ‘duplicates the functionality of the built-in iPhone application Mail without providing sufficient differentiation or added functionality, which will lead to user confusion.’
Those of you expecting an iPhone version of Firefox or Thunderbird anytime soon are going to be disappointed.
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Paypal have responded on the widespread rumors that PayPal would be banning certain browsers, including Apple’s Safari.
In a quote from the Wall Street Journal, PayPal Corporate Communications spokesman Michael Oldenburg commented:
“PayPal is developing features to block customers from logging into PayPal when using obsolete browsers on outdated or unsupported operating systems. An example of such a browser/OS combination might be, for example, Internet Explorer 4 running on Windows 98. In doing so, we better protect our customers from viewing a phishing site through their browser. We have absolutely no intention of blocking current versions of any browsers, including Apple’s Safari, from our website.”
With those strong words it looks like Safari will be safe from any ban.
Thanks to SidinKeyWest for sending this in.
[via 9to5mac]
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