Apple Releases Safari 3.1

Filed under: Computers — Miks March 24, 2008 @ 10:07 pm

Apple Releases Safari 3.1

The World’s Fastest Browser Now on Mac and Windows

CUPERTINO, California—March 18, 2008—Apple® today introduced Safari™ 3.1, the world’s fastest web browser for Mac® and Windows PCs. Safari loads web pages 1.9 times faster than IE 7 and 1.7 times faster than Firefox 2. Safari also runs JavaScript up to six times faster than other browsers, and is the first browser to support the latest innovative web standards needed to deliver the next generation of highly interactive Web 2.0 experiences*. Safari 3.1 is available immediately as a free download at www.apple.com/safari for both Mac OS® X and Windows.

“Safari 3.1 for Mac and Windows is blazingly fast, easy to use and features an elegant user interface,” said Philip Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “And best of all, Safari supports the latest audio, video and animation standards for an industry-leading Web 2.0 experience.”

The incredible performance of Safari, combined with its elegant user interface, lets users spend more time surfing the web and less time waiting for pages to load. Safari features an intuitive browsing experience with drag-and-drop bookmarks, easy-to-organize tabs, an integrated Find that shows the number of matches in a page and a built-in RSS reader to quickly scan the latest news and information.

Safari 3.1 is the first browser to support the new video and audio tags in HTML 5 and the first to support CSS Animations. Safari also supports CSS Web Fonts, giving designers limitless choices of fonts to create stunning new web sites.

Pricing & Availability
Safari 3.1 is available immediately as a free download at www.apple.com/safari for both Mac OS X and Windows users. Safari software updates are delivered seamlessly through Apple’s Software Update application, which automatically checks for updates.

Safari 3.1 for Mac OS X requires Mac OS X Leopard® or Mac OS X Tiger® version 10.4.11, a minimum of 256MB of memory and is designed to run on any Intel-based Mac or a Mac with a PowerPC G5, G4 or G3 processor and built-in FireWire®. Safari 3.1 for Windows requires Windows XP or Windows Vista, a minimum of 256MB of memory and a system with at least a 500 MHz Intel Pentium processor.

*Performance will vary based on system configuration, network connection and other factors. HTML and JavaScript benchmarks based on VeriTest’s iBench Version 5.0 using default settings running on an iMac® 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo system running Windows XP, with 1GB of RAM.

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WORST VIRUS EVER

Filed under: Computers — Miks January 7, 2007 @ 4:33 pm

WORST VIRUS EVER — CNN ANNOUNCED
A new virus has just been discovered that has been classified by Microsoft as the most destructive ever. This virus was discovered yesterday afternoon by McAfee . This virus simply destroys Sector Zero from the hard disk, where vital information for its functioning are stored.

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Computer Communication Lingo

Filed under: Computers — Miks December 5, 2006 @ 3:10 am

Computer communication lingo! !


What does a baby computer call his father?
Data.

What is a computer`s first sign of old age?
Loss of memory.

What happened when the computer fell on the floor?
It slipped a disk.

Why was there a bug in the computer?
It was looking for a byte to eat.

What is a computer virus?
A terminal illness.

To err is human; but to really mess things up requires a computer.
Computers make very fast, very accurate mistakes.
The attention span of a computer is as long as its electrical cord.

how to get rid of rapidshare waiting time

Filed under: Computers — Miks September 12, 2006 @ 12:48 am

Rapidshare! You all know what it is especially after it got its ‘hate-me-or-love-me-but-you-can’t-ignore-me‘ image. When ever you see a download link just after few seconds you will realise that the file is uploaded in Rapidshare.

Rapidshare really hates people who download from their server and its clearly evident from the slow server with no option to continue broken downloads, the long wait to ‘reserve’ download ticket, one download at a time limitation and the 100 file download limitation per IP. So some people went and shelled out bucks every year making themselves a ‘paid user’ or premium user, while others protested and cross studied the Rapidshare’s diminishing weakness and put all their skill to hack Rapidshare. Read more…

100 Windows Shortcuts

Filed under: Computers — Miks September 11, 2006 @ 12:18 am

CTRL+C (Copy)

CTRL+X (Cut)

CTRL+V (Paste)

CTRL+Z (Undo)

DELETE (Delete)

SHIFT+DELETE (Delete the selected item permanently without placing the item in the Recycle Bin)

CTRL while dragging an item (Copy the selected item)

CTRL+SHIFT while dragging an item (Create a shortcut to the selected item)

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