Reverberations

Safari on Windows Crashes Too Often

Posted in Apple, Coding, Computing, Design, Desktop, Linux, Rant, Windows, javascript by Brajesh on January 23rd, 2008

I’m not much of a fan of Apple softwares on Windows. I like iTunes though, even if it’s a bit bulky. I’ve tried using Safari on Windows for its super pleasing font rendering, aesthetics and, of late, some testing on WebKit/KHTML. However, it crashes just too often to be of any serious use and, of course, doesn’t have any DOM inspector. It has a barely usable JavaScript console though.
On a side-note, I’ve read that Safari can work on Linux under Wine. I’ll give it a try sometime. Now, if only I could run iTunes under Wine :) .

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New Mac Ads

Posted in Apple, advertising by Brajesh on May 5th, 2006

I'm no Mac user, neither much of an Apple fan. You need to be rich enough to be that. Yet I like all the 'cool'ness surrounding Apple. I use iTunes on Windows and love it, and I use QuickTime (free version of course) and hate it for highjacking my system-tray.

I'm a fan of Apple ads nonetheless (I've almost a gig of those). The latest ones on Apple's Get a Mac page

are great, incredibly irreverent and cleverly produced

as Dave Winer says. Just that you would need QuickTime 7 to play these videos because of the latest H.264 codec, and no updates of old QuickTime would work (You bet, I tried :-)).

The iPod Professional Edition 2006

Posted in Apple, Design, Microsoft by Brajesh on February 28th, 2006

From Robert Scoble’s What if Microsoft designed iPod box

http://youtube.com/watch?v=aeXAcwriid0

[Update] - Another permalink to the video. The older link isn’t working anymore. Apparently, the user has removed the video from YouTube.