Safari 42x faster than IE 7, 3.5x faster than Firefox
Wow.
{ via Daring Fireball }
Number of links on top websites
This is really interesting, though I’m still trying to figure out exactly why it’s interesting.
{ via Wilson Miner }
Tag Archives: mac
Henrique Prince: The Subway Busker
A self-taught violinist, Prince leads the Ebony Hillbillies, a quartet that plays in the Times Square subway station.
“…trying to express the beauty of the universe through this particular type of old time string music.”
Click to Flash for Safari
I know ads pay the bills on many websites, but Flash ads suck. Besides, I ignore 99.999% of web ads. My eyes and brain simply do not see them. Really.
This Safari plugin allows sites to load much, much faster. And, you have control over whether or not to view the Flash content. Fantastic.
{ via Steven Frank who has some well-constructed arguments on the politics of Flash and web ads }
Apple market share tops 10%
TUAW points out a couple interesting things here: almost 75% of Macs have an Intel processor, which makes sense if most of the Switching has been happening in the last couple years; and XP still has over 65% of the market. Poor Vista.
MailFollowup
Gregory Welch just updated his great plugin for Apple Mail, which I’ve used happily for several years. Allows you to easily send an additional thought or comment to all the original recipients of a message. Be sure to break out the Terminal and set the default message subject to “Follow-up:”
{ via Gregory Welch }