A few short days after posting a Scott McCloud penned comic to the Google blog, yesterday saw a Windows only beta release of the shiny new Google Chrome browser. Since it is based largely on code from Apple’s Webkit and Mozilla’s Firefox it’s a great shame not to also see a simultaneous release for Linux [...]

I was glad to hear that Steve Jobs is almost as disappointed with Mobile Me as I was. My municipal wifi connection slowed to a crawl during the final weeks of my stay in Bangkok (so much so, that it was like being back in 1992 all over again!), to the point where Mail.app lost [...]

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1. Safari
Safari comes preinstalled on your Mac, and claims to be the fastest browser in the world, thanks to the new SquirrelFish javascript engine inside the latest WebKit, it really does fly when it comes to websites based heavily on modern javascript frameworks like Sproutcore and jQuery.
Arguably, part of the elegance of [...]

When I upgraded my macbook to Leopard last year, I was really quite surprised to discover that Time Machine and FileVault really don’t work well together. The thought of having my laptop stolen is traumatic enough, without also having to worry about someone sifting through my finances, bank statements and other personal files. Until Leopard, [...]