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With all of the improvements to Safari in OS X lion, I’ve decided to put Google Chrome on the shelf for a bit and give Apple’s browser another shot. One of the tweaks that has made this switch possible has been the SafariOmniBar plug-in (available on GitHub), which combines the …

This isn’t a step-by-step guide to surfing on mobile Safari, but rather a collection of little tips for surfing on the latest  iPhone firmware (3.1.2, at the time of writing). I’ve never thought that the iPhone was a machine so complicated that you’d need to buy a book about it, …

Apple along side their iPhone 3.0 update, released an update to Safari. The update (4.0.1) comes little more than a week after it’s launch. Here are Apple’s characteristically sparse release notes: “This update addresses incompatibilities between Safari 4.0 and certain features in iPhoto ’09, including Places and Facebook publishing.” The …

Since the release of the iPhone OS 3.0 Beta, developers and curious people had been playing around with the new features of the next version of the Apple iPhone operating system, one of this new functions is open links in new windows using Safari. To use this feature we have …

Apple has issued another update to the Safari browser — the second in just two weeks. The new update, version 3.2.1, became available yesterday via Software Update. Release notes for the new update simply said: This update includes stability improvements and is recommended for all Safari users. It is speculated …

Today the long-awaited iPhone/iPod Touch 2.2 firmware became available through iTunes, just as previous rumors had suggested. The new update includes everything we expected plus a little more. Street View is now a feature of the Maps application and this is something I was looking forward to. I had chance …

According to Greek blog iPhone Hellas, they have received word from a ‘reliable’ source that the new iPhone firmware 2.2 will be released next Friday on November 21st. To back up their claims, Gizmodo has expressed that iPhone Hellas is also a ‘reliable’ source. The beta of firmware 2.2 has …

If you’ve visited the Apple start page lately you’ll already know this, but for those of you who haven’t, it’s been redesigned. The start page is the default homepage for Safari and unless you change it, Safari will load this page on start up. As usual with Apple, the page …

Opera Software, developers behind the well-known Opera Internet Browser have developed a browser for the iPhone entitled ‘Opera Mini’. However, don’t expect to be downloading it from the App Store anytime soon — NYTimes have released an article that claims Apple will not allow the browser to be distrubuted through …

Paypal have responded on the widespread rumors that PayPal would be banning certain browsers, including Apple’s Safari. In a quote from the Wall Street Journal, PayPal Corporate Communications spokesman Michael Oldenburg commented: “PayPal is developing features to block customers from logging into PayPal when using obsolete browsers on outdated or …

Word has it that PayPal is seriously considering locking out older browsers in an attempt to curb phishing attacks. Paypal commented that a large number of people are still using Internet Explorer 3 and 4. These versions were released in 1996 and 1997… It’s hard to imagine many people are …