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Friday Morning Release Party

Posted by pudge on from the upgrades-make-me-happy dept.

usermilk writes "Apple has released an update for iMovie 3. It provides improved performance and stability, you can get it from the Software Update preference pane." Hopefully this resolves many of the complaints about what could be a really cool program. maxentius writes "The beta .7 version of Camino has been released. Once Chimera, this tabbed browser and Apple's Safari might start a real browser war. Which one do you prefer?" And on that note, an anonymous user writes "Safari v64 is making the rounds according to macrumors. Safari v62 brought us Tabs, and this new version (v64) appears to provide increased stability, improved tab appearance, loading status for tabs, and enhanced autocomplete."

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  1. Ken Burns Effect and How to Turn it Off by Spencerian · · Score: 5, Informative

    I know we'll have a few people who'll still grouse about the Ken Burns Effect of panning and zooming stills.

    Mac OS X Hints has this well documented. You can change two settings in the KBE settings, or you can disable auto-application of KBE to stills with a plist change.

    http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=200 30 207070603841

    or

    http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=200 30 204065235938&query=ken+burns+effect

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  2. Safari v64 Download by ihatewinXP · · Score: 5, Informative

    Get it here http://www.deepapple.com/ Just go to the "Downloads" section. Seems much more stable the v62. Should be nearing real 1.0 status soon (even the beta 60 is being installed now as default on Apple demo machines as opposed to IE).

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    1. Re:Safari v64 Download by he1icine · · Score: 5, Informative

      oops, I fscked up

      this turns debug on:

      defaults write com.apple.safari IncludeDebugMenu 1

      this turns it off:

      defaults write com.apple.safari IncludeDebugMenu 0

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  3. In classic Slashdot style... by pi+radians · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Friday Morning Release Party" is everybody elses "Thursday Afternoon Release Party".

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  4. Multiple Homepages by revitup.org · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'm loving Safari, but I really want Apple to implement a feature that enables a user to have multiple homepages, which are displayed in different tabs at startup. I'm not sure if another browser has this feature, but I think it would be killer.

  5. Re:What is this, "Ken Burns Effect"? by Twirlip+of+the+Mists · · Score: 5, Informative

    And, is it Ken Burns Effect (no apostrophe, as in : Ken is burning) or Ken Burn's Effect (with apostrophe, as in belonging or pertaining to Ken Burns)

    It's "Ken Burns Effect." See, there's this guy, Ken Burns. You may have heard of him. Made a couple of documentaries or something, including one about a war. Didn't have any video of the war-- I guess it happened before CNN or something-- so he had to use lots of still photos. The way he used them, panning across them while telling the story, got him some kind of recognition or something. So now whenever anybody pans across a still photo in a movie, it's called the Ken Burns Effect.

    (Sorry for all the snideness. Up late last night, up early today. Bad combo.)

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  6. Camino and Safari by RalphBNumbers · · Score: 5, Interesting

    One interesting tidbit is that they've announced that this will be the last Chimera/Camino release to be based on the 1.0 Mozilla branch. They'll finally be pulling up to the current Mozilla 1.3 branch, which should fix alot of bugs(Including one I find really annoying, which both Chimera and Safari share, the inability to copy/paste japanese text with most carbon apps, yay!), as well as provide some performance increase. This leaves only one big feature on my wishlist for Camino: Native text fields, with spell checking and all. Safari has spell checking, but it still has to be manually enabled for each field, which I consider a bug. Safari meanwhile is advancing at a breakneck pace. Beta62 had tabs, although there were some really annoying bugs (like the close tab command occasionally closing the whole window instead. DOH!). Hopefully today's b64 will fix that, in addition to adding tab support to bookmarks.

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  7. Enable pipelining in Camino by Draconix · · Score: 5, Informative

    This will greatly increase browsing speed, though it supposedly reduces stability, I've been using it for a long time, and haven't noticed a reduction in stability.

    First, make sure Camino is not running. Then open the prefs.js file, located in Library(the one in your user directory)/Application Support/Chimera/profiles/default/.slt

    Paste these lines into it:

    user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true);
    user_pref("network.http.proxy.pipelining", true);


    Note: I got this information from Mac OS X Hints some time back. A handy thing to know.

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