Screencast: Safari 3.1

Well, it took me a few days, but here’s the Safari screencast. It also compares Safari 3.1 with Mozilla Firefox 3.0 beta 4.

Since it didn’t convert to Flash on blip.tv, below is a link to the original QuickTime movie. It is about 58 MB in size, and was created using the H.264 (great resolution but smaller file size) codec. You will need Apple QuickTime Player to view this.

Click to play

You can download Safari from Apple’s web site.

If you prefer Firefox and don’t have it yet, .

(6 votes, average: 3.33 out of 5)

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Safari 3.1

I recently installed Safari 3.0.4 on Windows XP Professional x64 Edition, but have now upgraded to Safari 3.1.

There are some excellent benefits of using Safari which I will discuss in my next post tomorrow.

Safari is, in many ways, superior to Firefox 2.0.0.12.

(6 votes, average: 2.83 out of 5)

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WordPress 2.5 RC1

This is probably the one piece of major open source news right now. WordPress has released a Release Candidate of WordPress 2.5, which has been highly anticipated by the blogging community. Everyone and every blog is talking about it, even the WordPress Podcast.

If you’re looking for some fantastic new features and a great new appearance, you can wait until the WordPress 2.5 Stable release, or you can download the RC1 now. I am currently sticking with WordPress 2.3.3; you can’t expect me to try EVERY beta and release candidate of all the open source projects! (I did experiment with Joomla! 1.5 RC1, and am currently playing with Firefox 3.0 Beta 4 and Safari 3.0.4 for Windows.)

Great new appearance:

All these new features make WordPress 2.5 closer to the experience of using a hosted service like Blogger, except with much more control over your own site.

You can get WordPress 2.5 RC1 now.

(5 votes, average: 3.4 out of 5)

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Anticipating WordPress 2.5

The WordPress Planet has been posting recently about a silently-delayed release of WordPress 2.5, a huge step up from WordPress 2.3.3. It was supposed to have been released March 10, 2008. It is now March 16, 2008.

Similar to the hype with the long-awaited release of Joomla! 1.5 Stable, people all around the world are anticipating WordPress 2.5, which is said to have a much nicer admin backend, a changed plugins system, and dozens of other features.

The difference between waiting for Joomla! 1.5 Stable and waiting for WordPress 2.5 is that WordPress is used by a huge number of active bloggers around the world. It is said that tens of millions of people read blogs powered by WordPress every day; this is no overestimate. Whether it’s an average Joe blogging about his life, or Yahoo! talking about their latest developments, or even eBay, WordPress is suitable for everyone.

Joomla! is a CMS, and large corporations build their own CMS’s. But WordPress was intended to be a blogging / content platform, and it has been used as that (and many more things) because it’s simply easy to use.

I await WordPress 2.5 as eagerly as anyone else. Sure, the new source code can be obtained via SVN, or the nightly builds, but I’ll wait until the stable.

Get WordPress for your own site, or create a free WordPress blog at PersonalLog.

(5 votes, average: 3.4 out of 5)

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Short stats about Facebook

Yes, simply continuing my ranting series of anti-Facebook posts.

I kind of subscribe to the electronic version of Revenue magazine. In the recent January/February 2008 edition, there’s a large section about Facebook. Here are some stats from that article:

• About half of Facebook users are not in college (or, as we call them in Canada, university)
• More than 41% of Facebook users are age 35 and over - what sort of impression does this give you? how does this impact the young users?
• Facebook has an estimated worth of $15 billion
• An online marketing consultant spent $500 on ads on Facebook, and the return was $15

You should read the rest of the article: pages 66 to 71 in the January/February 2008 edition.
You can also download this magazine as a self-contained e-book reader in a compressed ZIP archive.

(4 votes, average: 2.75 out of 5)

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10 reasons Facebook is hated

I’m not posting this, someone else has. Go and read “10 Reasons I Hate Facebook“. Almost sums it up perfectly.

The one I probably agree more intensely than the privacy point is the amount of e-mail. Well, yeah. That’s why I completely removed myself from all current and future mailings from Facebook. This was a link in one of the annoying messages titled “—– has added you as a Friend on Facebook”. (And I never even had an account… never gave Facebook permission to flood my inbox with dozens of similar messages.) I simply chose the legally-valid action: opt-out.

I’m never going to sign up for Facebook, even if I desperately need to find someone. And if you can resist your urges, refuse using Facebook, you can be a noble person too.

(5 votes, average: 4 out of 5)

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