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Yesterday, this message appeared on the VersionTracker page for Haxial Text Edit 1.3: The Haxial developers are presumably responding to some harsh, nasty, and supercilious criticism of Haxial Text Edit’s appearance, which does not slavishly follow the Gospel according to Jobs from the Book of Aqua. 
Is this the image we really want to project, folks? -- the ugly Mac user? I certainly don’t want to be perceived as a fanatical sourpuss sneering at any idea that doesn’t emanate from the hallowed halls of the Cupertino campus. Haxial Text Edit is a nice little application. I reviewed a several versions earlier build than the current version 1.3 some time ago, and quite enjoyed it. It’s fun, it’s fast, it works well, and it’s free. What’s to complain about? If you don’t like the appearance, don’t use it, but don’t try to ruin it for others by posting bigoted reviews based on your subjective aesthetic preferences to VersionTracker. 
Another point these Aqua extremists don’t seem to get is that Haxial Text Edit is not an exclusively Mac application. It supports Windows as well. It is great that the Haxial people have seen fit to port it to the Mac. If this is this sort of thanks they get -- remember: Haxial Text Edit is freeware - - will they (or others) bother next time? 
So I would just like to say that not all Mac users are Aqua bigots, or even Platinum bigots, and express my thanks to the Haxial team for supporting the Mac platform with Haxial Text Edit and their also freeware Haxial Calculator. If you would like to check these programs out for yourself, and make up your own mind, you can find them here. A Subtle Safari Bug Discovered I discovered a significant bug -- or more precisely bugs - - in Safari yesterday. I decided to try using Safari to post my news stories to the Applelinks CGI posting form, to see how well it would work for that chore. Not well, unfortunately. I usually use iCab for news and article posting, and it performs superbly. Drag & drop works without a hiccup, and iCab has no problem inserting TypeIt4Me macros in the text fields (Netscape/Mozilla lowercase all the caps when I do this). When I have worked to do with a browser, whether it be posting for downloads, I find that iCab is usually the most trouble free and efficient tool. Anyway, I quickly discovered that Safari doesn’t support drag & drop very well. Response was erratic -- it worked in some fields and not in others, and then it would work in some only sometimes. Combined with spontaneous page reloads, this task that should take only a minute or two dragged out to several minutes. I finally got all of the data for my first article transferred to be posting form and clicked the “Add Article” button. At least the transfer to Applelinks server was quick, or so I thought. The “Article Added” confirmation came up, but I decided I had had enough hassle for one day, and switched back to iCab for the rest of the postings, which went smoothly as usual. However, while the iCab - posted items showed up in the next homepage refresh cycle, the one I had posted with Safari didn’t. A search of the server indicated that it was indeed there, but for some reason wasn’t being picked up by the home page. I reposted the article with iCab, deleted the Safari posting, and all was OK. But Safari obviously need some more work in this context. I can’t suggest exactly what. My knowledge of PERL and CGI technical issues is minimal. The moral; I wouldn’t advise trusting Safari at this stage of its development for posting data to Web forms, even if the process appears to be functioning properly. New PowerBook From Judson Charles, Have enjoyed your observations on all things Apple. I’m about 50/50 with you on your OS9/OSX issues. I’ve come to the conclusion that most if not all OSX performance issues come back to hardware. I bought my first Mac, a PowerPC 6100, based on reports of a new processor in the next generation Macs. I bought my next Mac, a WallStreet PowerBook based on early reports of the new OS X and hints that it would run on the 233 WallStreet. The Power mac 6100 required me to update software to the Power PC specs. I knew this and it was no hassle. That machine allowed me to do freelance graphic design and tech support for nearly 4 years. On rumors and specs of a new UNIX based OS I decided to get a machine that could run it. I liked the small footprint of the PowerBook and went with the WallStreet. This machine has been a wonder. Fast and tough, I’d call it the best computer I’ve ever worked on. And yes, OS X runs on it. It really was thrilling to install and explore an entirely new OS with the utterly fantastic Apple design sheen. And yes, it is slow. Well not slow but it lacked the snap of 9. This was a hardware thing. I had the minimum machine that could run this OS. But I still loved it. So far ahead of any competing OS. Now I’m getting the new 17” PowerBook, ‘the big book’. I’ve maxed the specs on it and anticipate a long life and it’s ability to handle a good many OS updates. OS X simply needs a powerful chunk of hardware to really shine. These transitions make perfect sense to me in terms of the natural evolution of Apple’s hardware/os transformations. I feel I’ve gotten all I wanted out of every machine and I’ll gladly stick with Apple till who-knows-what comes next. Judson Hi Judson; We’re in essential agree,emt. The 6100 was a superb value in its day. You can even still upgrade it to G4 status, although the 33 MHz system bus would remain a bottleneck, and NuBus is ancient history. I loved my WallStreet too. Mybe my best computer ever, although this Pismo has been a brick of dependability for the past year. The jury has hardly been called in yet on the new iBook. Your new Big Al PowerBook should give you a quantum boost in performance over the old WallStreet. I am very satisfied with OS x performance so far on the 700 MHz iBook, so you should fly on the 17 incher. Charles This Week's Crop Of Safari Hacks And Add-ons
Safari Icon Manager 0.6.2 This little piece of software can do two things: It can browse your Safari icon cache, and it can edit/empty it. Safari icon cache is a bunch of files that contains the "icon file" for the site, that appears in your History and Bookmarks menus. These icons are also known as favicon.ico files.
New in this version:
SafariMasks 1.1,1 Safari Theme Editor SafariMasks was made to customize the look of Safari - Apple's new turbo web browser for Mac OS X. With SafariMasks you don't have to settle with Apple's navigation buttons. Simply choose a new theme from our list and click install. Within seconds you can have a brand new theme to use when surfing the web. It's that simple. Download SafariMasks today and see for yourself how cool this program really is.
New in this version:
New in 1.1:
JeepSafari 1.0 Syncs Safari Bookmarks
Organize your bookmarks on one of your Macs. Then run JeepSafari. When you start working on another Mac, just run JeepSafari again. All your bookmarks now show up on the other Mac as well. Isn't that sweet? Everytime you add/change bookmarks on any of your Macs, just run JeepSafari. Your bookmarks will stay in sync. Another situation in which you'll be able to use JeepSafari is when you want to give a presentation on a Mac that isn't yours. Just download JeepSafari to the new Mac and you have got all your bookmarks with you. If you want to go back to your previous set of bookmarks for some reason, just choose Restore Bookmarks from the File menu.
System requirements:
SafariTabs 1.0 Launches Groups Of Bookmarks in Safari
The application looks like a transparent launcher disposed in top-left corner of the desk, under the MacOS X menu bar. The main functionality of SafariTabs allows users to open Safari’s windows from grouped bookmarks in SafariTabs. SafariTabs users also have following options to manage their bookmarks:
• to carry out a drag & drop bookmarks from Safari to SafariTabs
SafariTabs was thought for every Safari’s user who wants to be offered functionalities enhancing a more comfortable use of Safari.
SafarIcon 1.1.2 Visual Theme Editor For Safari Browser User Interface
SafarIcon allows you to change Safari's user interface by installing icons as well as other application resources such as nib files and localization files. SafarIcon comes bundled with a set of high quality icon themes and more themes are available at the website. SafarIcon copies all graphical elements of Safari's user interface from its own themes into the Resources folder of Safari.app and replaces the originals. The application previews the new icons in a simulated browser window. SafarIcon also gives you the option to install Aqua Pinstripe or Brush Metal appearances of both the browser and download windows.
Safari Bookmark Exchanger 0.6 Exports Chimera booKmarks To Safari This little application let you easily change Type & Creator from applications (!Also bundles!) and documents.
Features:
New in this version:
System requirements:
TabbedSafari 1.0 - Emulate Tabbed Browsing In Safari
To create your very own Safari tabs you need 3 Applescripts and 1 REALbasic project. This will be a crude implementation and will have all the windows in a list, displaying them from front to back, and refreshing as the order is changed.
System requirements:
Safari Spanish Localization 1.0 Spanish localization for Safari
Safari German Language File 0.9.8 German localization for Safari Safari 0.9.8 jetzt mit Internet-Enabled Disk-Image (Danke ab Norbert) Font für Überschriften geändert (sieht irgendwie cooler aus jetzt :-)) Habe eine nette Email von Apple bekommen :-) Hmmm, was heißt "sehr ernst genommen und geschätzt", schauen die sich ein bisschen was von mir ab?
New in this version:
neu ab 0.9.7:
• Download-Fenster komplett übersetzt
neu ab 0.9.6:
For more information, visit:
HOJE:
Pra quem tá acessando pra baixar o Safari pt-br Localization, o link é esse:
Abraço, João Paulo. Dia 16 de janeiro: "Mais um adicional plus a mais" (as aspas são para os caipiras não dizerem que é "erro de português")! Agora a lampipágina tem um incrível ícone pros favoritos -- aquele iconezinho que fica à esquerda do "http://"! Sempre à frente da concorrência! Dia 12 de janeiro:
Para facilitar o acesso à série "Desmascarado!", aqui estão os links rápidos para cada parte, em ordem:
Safari Catalan Localization 1.0 - Safari for Catalan users
NAVEGADOR SAFARI TRADUÏT AL CATALÀ Programa complet (2,5Mb) ACTUALITZACIÓ
Carpeta Català (415Kb
Russian Safari 1.0 Adds Russian Localization To Safari Browser
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