As soon as iOS 4.1 comes out this week (as announced by Steve Jobs at last week’s Apple music event) iPhone 3G users should feel safe to upgrade. In case you don’t know, iOS 4 for iPhone 3G wasn’t exactly “perfect”: to cut short, it was slow. I tried an iPhone 3G running the magical iOS 4: it was barely usable. Even a stupid task like unlocking the phone took a few seconds more than usual, not to mention springboard navigation and Safari. Everything was slow and slow-motion - at a point you couldn’t believe Apple shipped such a thing. Read more
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iPhone 3G Users, Upgrade to iOS 4.1 [Video]
Your Alternative iPad Browser Sucks
I tried many alternative browsers on my iPad. So many, in fact, that I can’t even remember the last time I deleted one. Maybe it was Super Prober, or Atomic Browser. I really can’t remember. My problem with you, developers of alternative browsers, is that you’re not Apple. You’re not even close to being able to implement features and think - just think - that they could work better than Safari’s.
I’ve seen many bloggers and people I follow on Twitter claim that they found a browser better than Safari. In the past months I read dozens of articles about “I ditched Safari for Atomic Browser” or “I needed tabs so I installed this on my iPad”. Early and quick excitement is bad for the internet: your words will stay there for the months to come as a living sign of your past ramblings. You said you ditched Safari, and now your homescreen.me profile lacks any alternative.
Step your game up, people. You don’t need to write about alternatives, because they all suck.
Simple Drive Turns Your iPhone Into A Portable Hard Drive
Easy, nerds. I know that there are hundreds of apps that let you turn the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch into a portable hard drive - that’s why I never featured them. There are just too many of them out in the App Store.
So what about Simple Drive? It’s simple, it’s got a nice UI and doesn’t overwhelm you with tons of extra features you don’t even need. Unlike all those other apps, it’s elegant.
That’s why I downloaded it and I have so far enjoyed using it.
SendTab for Safari Shares Websites Between Browsers
Sharing websites is the staple of online communication, but we haven’t really figured out how to appropriately share links in person. Somebody overseas can be bothered with a Twitter link or quick email, but if you’re trying to share a video with a group of people (say at work), you ultimately end up with three terribly smelly people crowding around your computer, complaining about the monitor viewing angle and whatnot. So it’s time to further solve our ability to spread the latest offices memes with the SendTab extension for Safari.
Safari, Other Browser Extensions Could be Dangerous
The idea here isn’t that you could install a nefarious extension; proposed is a malicious thought that a developer could gain the trust of a large user base, before updating the extension with bad code. Because Safari automatically updates, imagine the potential for wrong doing: nobody is watching.
Who Needs “Who to Follow” Anyway?
I’m a pretty popular guy. I’m probably the only guy you need to follow on Twitter. In fact, I’m the only guy on Twitter. So why the heck do you need that fancy “Who to Follow” feature? I’m everything you need.
iPhone 4 VS. BlackBerry Torch [Video]
And there are an old BlackBerry Bold 9700 and a Samsung Captivate in there, too. Just look at the scrolling, tap to zoom and yes, raw speed. As Dave Caolo also notices:
“As the tests progress, the testers get desperate for their horse to win. At one point, Dieter notes that enabling Wi-Fi on the iPhone 4 is “…a fiasco.” Grated, he did ensure that two unnecessary taps were required by leaving the Settings app in the Safari settings the last time he used it. Four taps to turn something on is hardly a “fiasco.” Do you know what is? When the entire European Commission and all of Saudi Arabia decide not to use BlackBerries. That’s a fiasco.”
Check out the video below.
Safari Extensions Monday: Sessions, KeySearch, Instapaper in Google Reader
I spent a week using the latest Firefox 4 Beta and now I’m back to Safari. I can’t help it, but Safari has the best support for 1Password out there and that, combined with amazing tools such as ClickToFlash, is too valuable to me. If you add stability, speed and elegance to the mix - I guess you know what I mean.
So, Apple launched the official Safari Extensions Gallery last week, and there are more than 100 “officially approved” extensions in there. It’s a good place to discover new stuff, but I’m wondering how often Apple will update it. Anyway, I’ve just installed three new extensions to start the week, and they’re pretty great.
How Safari on iPad Should Have Been [Concept]
I browse a lot of websites with my iPad. At the end of each day, I sit down, relax and open my favorite websites using Safari. Could Safari on the tablet be better though? Yes. If you look closer, Safari on iPad is pretty similar to the desktop version: you have buttons, a chrome, a standard way of interacting with webpages.
So the Arc90 guys thought about this and came up with a genius concept of how Safari on the iPad should have been like.