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For Safari try Pithhelmet.

http://www.culater.net/software/PithHelmet/PithHelmet.php

Install PithHelmet> in Safari and block flash and the problem is solved.

Just a followup on a few of your points. Some you are dead on the money, but a few have some additional information you haven't ran into yet.

Samba - 100% broken in OSX when trying to share out files to a Windows box with User level security. You can access public stuff, but whoa unto you if you try to access private data with a username and password. It's acknowledged as broken, it "Just doesn't work."

The only problem I've ran into lately is with a specific implementation of network security. Windows got the brilliant idea to digitally sign packets on the LAN. Turn that off and a great many things UNbreak. Mac is supposed to have added support for this but it doesn't appear to work.

ITunes - You can't sort a playlist arbitrarily. You have to sort it by a field. I can't click and drag songs into specific a specific order - "It just doesn't work."

I don't think "it just works" is meant to apply to the presence of features, but instead to core functionality. If I say it differently it may make more sense. I can't say a car doesn't Just Work because it lacks ABS or power windows.

Although that I would admit is a glaring obvious omission in iTunes, most users are very pleased with all the ease of use and features that iTiunes has in it. The built-in store is very well-done. Synchronizing with an iPod is effortless. I would add to that feature request that I would like to be able to add a song to a playlist more than once, to increase its frequency in playback.

Printer - Can't use my Epson CX3810 with the Mac. I realize Epson doesn't provide the driver and there's a third party driver, but it doesn't seem to work quite right, especially if it's over the network (where it doesn't work at all) - So while the ultimate fault lies with Epson, it still "Just doesn't work."

Actually with Leopard there's a very exciting new twist to this. Now this doesn't apply to everything of course, but pretty close and maybe for your printer too. Mac OS X doesn't ship with tons and tons of drivers, they just ship with the common ones. Plug in your printer and turn it on. If you added a hacked driver you found somewhere for it, go into print management and delete the printer. (not the driver) Now run software update. There is a good chance it will find drivers for it on Apple's web site, via software update. This is a new feature in Leopard, that tries to eliminate the need to track down drivers for hardware. You just need to have it plugged in and not working properly when you run software update. I don't know what the odds are of it working for you. To be honest, probably not good right now if it's a new model. But after epson codes drivers for that printer, it will probably be on Apple's software update and upgrade your system automatically. It will automatically add the printer when you reboot following the update even.

I just looked, and good lord there's a lot of bundled supported printers in Leopard. (over 3,000) I see yours is supported with Gutenprint which I believe is a generic open source driver?

Safari - No effective, free adblock software that I can find. Switching to Firefox obviously solves this, but for the Mac and their homebrew application, it "Just doesn't work."

I wouldn't browse without wearing my PithHelmet. Be sure to grab from the link on the right for the new Safari 3.1. Sorry SlashDot you're not getting anywhere near the ad revenue from me, but those shockwave animated ads PISS ME OFF TO NO END. I do wish there were more options available, but PithHelmet does everything I want it to do.

iDVD - This is by far the best example of things not working. I can't even figure out what this program is for, since it doesn't appear to do anything useful. I tried to make a simple DVD with it.

I'd actually classify that as a problem, not that it doesn't work

Place two fingers on the touchpad, click the button. Right-click heaven, without a dumb hardware split.

Having menus on every window makes a mess of the interface, and adds unnecessary height to each window.

True maximized window?

Megazoomer makes windows full-screen on OS X. Just press Command-Return, and the front-most window grows to fill your entire monitor, covering the Dock and menu bar. Press the same keys, and it shrinks again.

Like many other OS X modifications, Megazoomer requires SIMBL, a free InputManager available here.

Megazoomer is free and open source.

Any other complaints?

(I hate posting as AC just so the anti-apple people won't brand me as apple-only, I'm just sharing information I've learned)

Here's one adblock software that works with Safari on a Mac. Its just been a few days since I've installed and started using it ..... but surfing the net after that has been like a breath of fresh air.
http://www.culater.net/software/PithHelmet/PithHelmet.php

Its shareware, although you can click the "I paid" button in Pithhelmet preferences even if you haven't paid. I'm going to use this for a month and if it's smooth sailing, I'll be more than willing to doante the $10 that the website asks for. Have any of you come across a better alternative for Safari on Mac (not to be confused with the Windows version) --> free or otherwise?

There's PithHelmet.

Adblock is the browser.

And here is the other.
If you want a "maximize" function (Mac OS X only shows a "zoom" function), you can use a collection of handy applescripts: Spooky
It will be linked to a keystroke. If you really want to link it to the finder buttons, someone could hack it with APE or SIMBL.

PithHelmet is much more powerful than Adblock, well worth the $10, and if you're a cheap bastard you can always just neglect to pay. The web inspector in WebKit nightlies beats the pants off Firefox's ugly and inconvenient DOM Element Inspector. And I'll proudly admit I'm not familiar with Firebug, but for debugging JavaScript, have a look at Drosera.

You're looking for Megazoomer, a SIMBL plugin. Once installed, cmd+return to fullscreen a Cocoa app.

SIMBL: http://culater.net/software/SIMBL/SIMBL.php
Megazoomer: http://ianhenderson.org/megazoomer.html

As a sidenote: I use plugins to give me a pull-down Quake style Terminal, colored source code in Safari, and one especially useful plugin that remembers your Safari tabs after you've quit the app (ala Opera).

Yes, everyone who uses Objective-C is aware of categories. And no, your shared object technique likely won't work in this case.

LINK: http://slashdot.org/~Slashdot+Shinyfix/journal/136 930
PREVIEW: http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/658/slashdotshiny fixv0012vy.png

While Alex Bendiken's redesign of Slashdot is a very welcome change, not to
mention gorgeous, many Slashdotters have discovered deficiencies in the
resulting rendering. In particular, the usability of Slashdot's story
commenting has taken a beating. To ameliorate these "misfeatures", this CSS
file aims to do the following:

    1. Add visual cues to aid scanning through nested comments and replies.
    2. Move comment score back to the subject.
    3. Allow <i> and <em> within blockquotes.
    4. Adjust body text font and size.
    5. Set a fixed width for comments (e.g. 42 ems) to maintain readability
          with very wide browser windows. [DISABLED BY DEFAULT]

You can enable or disable these fixes, as desired, by commenting or
uncommenting the relevant CSS below.

NOTE: Currently, fix #2 only works in Safari (and perhaps Opera?).
Gecko-based browsers do not support "display: inline-block," which is used to
reposition the post score. If someone knows how to hack together an
equivalent for Firefox, please contribute!

INSTALLATION (SAFARI): Set this as the style sheet for slashdot.org with a
PithHelmet* rule or similar, or in Preferences > Advanced.
                              (* < http://www.culater.net/software/PithHelmet/PithHel met.php >)

INSTALLATION (FIREFOX): As if you need instructions.

LICENSE: The contents of this file are hereby released into the public
domain. Take that, Stallmanists.

And if it's a site from which you read content more than a couple of times, there's a better solution than manually clicking on the printer version each time: use the uri transmogrifier of your choice (I love Pith Helmet.) to automatically turn urls into their printer-version form.

Wouldn't it be great if Safari had really good ad-blocking features?!

Have you tried out Pith Helmet? It's not Apple official, and it asks for a $10 registration fee now and then if you haven't registred (but doesn't cripple itself if you don't ever pay), but it does a really good job.

His solution: #1, spam the user. #2, notification spam. #4, multi level marketing.

I'm assuming your off by one on the multi-level marketing thing.

Well, as I see it, the other forms of "marketing" on the internet are: #4 text or graphical/flash ads, #5 deception or fraud (think mortgage brokers), and #6 annoyance ads (think popup/unders).

Now, lets look at what I tolerate on the internet.

#1, I have spamassassin trained to eliminate over 99.9% of the marketing
#2, I have a http://www.spamgourmet.com/ account for every purchase online that "requires" an email address
#3, I foe every single dipfuck here on slashdot that has multi-level marketing in their "homepage" or signatire
#4, I don't use flash. I use http://culater.net/software/PithHelmet/PithHelmet. php to eliminate banner ads and if it misses one at least the gif animation does not cycle forever
#5, I know better
#6, I haven't seen a popup/under since about 2001 because "popup blockers" are a requirement since then for a suitable browser for me

So, what escapes? Text ads. Yup. And I often click on them when I am searching for a product to help support Google for having such an excellent search engine, but I do not believe that I have ever bought something from an ad on the internet. Even the tasteful text ads on Google are 99% deception and/or fraud, or the companies have nothing over standard, known brick-n-mortar or established internet retailers.

The real problem here is ignorance of the general population. They tolerate and fall for so much of the 6 marketing methods, and actually perpetuate it. Everybody knows that spam would stop if people stopped buying V14gr4! and penis pills from spam, but people will and do reply to them, so it is profitable. The same goes for the others.

So, my only beef with the parent's del.icio.us comments, are that his recommendations are incomplete.

Foe for life!

defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeDebugMenu 1

An ad blocker for Safari exists: it is called PithHelmet. IMO it is much better than Firefox's adblock extension, though it is not free; it costs $10, but it's worth every cent.

Same here and I find it better than Adblock on Firefox on Windows.
Very effective little extension, I must pay for it sometime!

Here for those interested:
http://culater.net/software/PithHelmet/PithHelmet. php

Adblock for Safari (but better): Pithhelmet

DVD Player complaining about regions: Set your drive's region to the region you live in, and it should mostly never ask you that again

Package management: DarwinPorts

here is probably the easiest way, since I don't know if you're using Apple's Finder or not. Path Finder (which I use instead of Apple's Finder) allows you to look at the contents of a package or app, which would be easier for this edit if you want to use the GUI all the way.

first of all, you may want to make sure you have version 2.6.1 of Pith Helmet (the latest version). then open the Terminal. paste or type this line, all on one line:

open "/Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins/PithHelmet.bundle/Contents/Info.plist"

(this will open the file you need to edit in the Property List Editor.)

click the triangles to expand "Root", then "SIMBLTargetApplications", and then "0".

Change "MaxBundleVersion" to "416".

it should look like this.

then hit Cmd-S to save, Cmd-Q to quit, and you're all set to use Pith Helmet. i've tested it for a bit, and so far it works perfectly.

let me know if you have any questions.

A few of the Flash ads on Slashdot have a habit of making my CPU usage jump to 100%

I didn't know Slashdot has Flash ads because PithHelmet blocks them even without specifically disabling plugins. I guess you have a good reason for not using it, though.

I use this script to hide ads in Opera until i click them.

Not quite as smooth as the Firefox flashblock plugin, but opera has many other nice features, and has been my preferred windows browser since the aniversary giveaway. At home however I have a Powerbook, and uses Pithhelmet to kill the ads.

Yeah, it does. The adblocker's called PithHelmet. There's dozens of other extensions available, most of very high quality.

Safari also has a third party ad blocker, named (cleverly enough) pith helmet.

I think the parent was probably referring to PithHelmet for add blocking.

These are good points, but Firefox doesn't come with a built-in adblocker either. You can add adblocking to Safari (and other functionality, like typeahead find) with plugins, just like Firefox.

Have you tried PithHelmet for Safari? I don't use it myself, but it's supposed to be nice and fast--maybe you'll find it useful.

You, my friend, need Pith Helmet. The ruleset it provides out of the box has been great as far as I'm concerned, although you can tweak the hell out of things if you'd like...

block flash in Safari

A nifty ad-blocker called PithHelmet will do this, either globally or by site (set preferences to disable plugins). Unfortunately it broke in 1.3, but the developer is working on a fix.

Man, I hate the Internet without ad-blocking...

But if they don't mention greasemonkey, then the only excuse I'll accept is that it's too new to appear in print. I'm using it at work to clobber that last webapp so that I no longer have to use IE...

You really should give a link for Greasemonkey, and to the script repository.

Also, shameless pimpage, but I've built a Greasemonkey implementation for IE, GreasemonkIE. It's still in development (missing a pretty major feature right now, which should be sorted out soon -- covered in the blog entry above), but it works quite well considering IE's limitations. GreasemonkIE tries to re-use existing Greasemonkey user scripts as much as possible, but other browsers have user script support too. The new Opera beta has an implementation of user scripts, and PithHelmet does the same for Safari (among many other features). Up until yesterday, IE was the only browser left out of the user script craze, but I'm trying to rectify that.

I'm replying to you, but really, this is for everyone who complains about no flash/popup/ad/whatever blocking in Safari, as well as lack of serious tab control.

Saft

PithHelmet

Yes, they cost money. Yes, they are worth it. No, I don't care if Firefox can do this for free.

though I don't know whether Safari has the equivalent of FlashBlock that firefox does

Apparently there's PithHelmet for Safari, but I haven't tried it out yet. Going to now.

I actually spent several hours researching this because I was getting them in Firefox on OS X, but not Safari or Firefox on Linux. When my roommate started getting them on Linux I was quite surprised.

In every case I eventually tracked it down to either Flash or Java objects loaded into a page that requested a window be opened. Also in every case it seemed to be a well known advertising site that the object originated from.

The reason I never got any in Safari but did in Firefox is because I use Safari as my main browser so I've got PithHelmet installed, which comes with a healthy list of things to block, whereas I use Firefox only for testing so I've got little to nothing listed in my AdBlock rules. At work where I use a Linux desktop I have a healthy list of AdBlock rules.

If you're concerned about your privacy, avoiding ads, or popups you need to have at minimum AdBlock, CookieCuller and X installed for Firefox. If you're using Safari, PithHelmet is absolutely the best.

PithHelmet is an extended site preferences and ad blocking plugin for Apple's Safari browser. The basic purpose of the plugin is to empower you the user to view the web as you like. You can block ad images, Flash, Shockwave or horrible midi loops - the world is your oyster.

This is just a series of hacks on top of Apple's WebKit framework, but it seems to work rather effectively.

Due to the manner in which PithHelmet blocks ad content, most types of advertising content can be caught in the filter - this includes images, javascript, css, text, iframes, popups and popunders.

I haven't seen any popups in Safari. I'm on MacOS X 10.3.8 but I suspect this is not due to OS or app upgrades, it's some new technology. There is, however, a better solution to popups for Safari users, the plugin PithHelmet. Stops popups and almost all ads dead. Other OS users may find successful solutions with gadets like Privoxy.

Now if only I could figure out a way to get rid of "pop-IN" ads, like those annoying popup-style ads that appear inside the browser window, it's some sort of DHTML trick to make a closable window inside a frame. It's used on sites like wunderground.com and I hate it. Nothing can kill those yet.

Have you tried PithHelmet for adblocking in Safari? I don't use it myself, but I've heard it's fast and effective.

I'll also add that in terms of interface, Firefox is ugly everywhere Safari is beautiful. Opening Firefox reminds me of the travesty that was Word 6.0 for Mac.

Go get PithHelmet and you can have adblockedness in Safari too!

On my box, running Mac OS X 10.3.6 with all the latest Software Updates, Safari (1.2.4 (v125.12)) is not affected. I did the Secunia test, and the popup window that opened when I clicked the link was a regular Citibank popup, not the predicted Secunia one.
According to the advisory, Safari 1.2.4 is affected, but to me it seems it's not.
Maybe it's because I have Pithhelmet (an ad filter) installed?

"In safari the tabs are fixed size. Once you have more tabs then can fit on your bar you have to use the stupid drop down. In firefox the tabs automatically resize temselves."

"5) Profiles"

I know it's not strictly integrated, but you are aware of PithHelmet for Safari, right? It integrates seamlessly into Safari (only appears in the preferences pane and in the contextual menu 'right-click'). I'd be completely lost without it ...

As I posted earlier on /., block the following regex in your ad-blocker of choice (adblock in Firefox, PithHelmet in Safari) and be gone with your troubles: radio\.weblogs\.com\/0105910.

Also, the Triangle TechJournal article is not spam, but merely slashdotted. Here is google's cache: http://66.102.7.104/search?q=cache:uVKexn1-BtYJ:ww w.triangletechjournal.com/news/article.html%3Fitem _id%3D666+&hl=en&start=1

PithHelmet is the Safari equivalent of Adblock.

Let the great and powerful Google lead you to happiness.

I have found it, and will give it to you, since you asked so nicely.

PithHelmet

It's like adblock for Safari, but nicer.

There's always PithHelmet Safari ad blocking. It works great.

What I really want, however, is a "turn off flash" quick menu item, same for animated gifs

Get PithHelmet, a great little ad blocker for Safari. Supresses most Flash crap, and you can limit animated gifs to a single run. The web is a much calmer place with PithHelmet installed.

For the Safari users out there, PithHelmet does a pretty darn good job of removing ads, though sometimes it's a bit *too* ambitious in its blocking.

Thankfully, I use Safari on a Mac, and I have discovered the joys of the Helmet. I see no ads. Anywhere. Ever. Life is good.

How did you get safari to block to ads for slashdot? They're still there for me.