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   Review - Safari for Mac OS X

   4.0 (Jun 9, 2009)

   How strange so many things changed in Safari 4's GUI between the last beta and this final version...! Strange indeed that "they" abandoned the tab bar in the upper portion of the interface, and that "they" also reversed course as to the progress bar, not back to the blue tide (yet?), but not exactly as bland and non-informative as the simple spinning grey wheel either.
   
   Aside from that, Safari 4 on my MBP running Tiger with all the bells and whistles is very fast at rendering web pages, quick to start up too, and rendering is so far flawless. I still deplore the fact that its interface can't be more easily customized, but in terms of speed and stability, it's a good application. Don't know yet if I'm ready to ditch Opera as default browser, though...

2. 
   Review - Safari for Mac OS X

   4 Beta (Feb 24, 2009)

   Sorry to rain on your parade, guys, but I just installed it, only to uninstall it immediately, because it just wouldn't start (Safari had to quit, would you like to send a report to Apple? By all means, Steve...).
   
   Got back to Saf4 Dev Preview, which works just fine, thanks...

3. 
   Review - KDE

   4.0.1 (Feb 6, 2008)

   Hi all!
   
   I must say I'm amazed: KDE 4 is not only good- (even better-)looking, it's also much more user-friendly, and doesn't seem to be quite the power-hog some predicted it would become... Tried it first on a newly-minted Kubuntu live-cd, then decided to install it on a new partition on my Toshiba laptop (my Guinea pig of all trades...), just for the fun of it, and I just love it. One thing, though: what was called Kwifi Manager on former versions of KDE is now so well hidden I have yet to find it...
   
   If anyone knows where it's gone hiding, feel free to holler...
   
   Aside from that, a plain 5. Truly deserved, IMHO!

4. 
   Review - PC-BSD

   1.4.1 (Nov 18, 2007)

   Still has some issues with screen resolution on VMs, though : I installed it on Parallels Desktop on my MacBook Pro (native res is 1440 x 900, I think), and it won't go into fullscreen mode, no matter what. Has to do with the fact that only 16- and 24-bit colors are supported, while my ATI video card needs 32-bit support, I suppose. Still, this OS is brillant : stable, scalable, fast, and with a good-looking interface. Installed on a friend's PC when it was still in 1.3, and he's used it ever since, without the need to reinstall it... This wouldn't happen with W*****s, huh...?

5. 
   Review - Opera for Windows

   9.20 Build 8746 Beta (Mar 17, 2007)

   I'm an Opera fan and a faithful among the faithful, but this time I'm only crediting it with a 3/5, simply because the Personal Bar now contains two search bars that CANNOT be removed, one for a supposed default search engine (editing/deleting entries in its list won't make the search bar disappear), and another devolved to shopping, which has IMO nothing to do on anyone's personal bar, but hey, that's just my opinion.
   
   Opera developpers : let the end-user choose what will and what will not be displayed on his/her personal bar, freeware or not ! I understand Opera Software has landed deals with various Internet big companies, and wants to honor its part of the deal, but if this "feature" is still there in the final 9.20 version, I'll refuse to update, and if push comes to shove, I'll simply move to another browser.

6. Comment - Nokia lawyers up, chooses to fight Apple in court rather than the market

   9.20 Build 8746 Beta (Oct 27, 2009 - 11:40 AM)

   Mr Levy seems to forget that Apple itself hasn't always been as successful as it is today, and has in its time indugled in the very "tactics" Nokia is being accused of in this article. Let the courts decide on the merit of this case. We may learn something along the way... Nokia has been on top of the mobile, then smartphone, game for years. As such, it's been considered as top dog by most of its competitors, who sought to bring it down, but repeatedly failed. Maybe it's the European in me speaking, but Apple is a relative newcomer on this market, and as a Mac-user, I'm quite glad they became so successful so quickly, but let's face it: all smartphone makers nowadays use more or less the same technology (same logic boards and chipsets, same screens, same processors and memory), buy their components from the same suppliers, and then have to make a decent profit selling their overpriced products on markets so bored with this technology that they won't even look your way if you don't reinvent the wheel with each new release. Apple's iPhone is one of a kind, has been from the start, but is now facing a harsher competition. Nokia, on the other hand, has been active in more numerous segments of the cellphone business: they make cell-towers and servers, and various other hardware related to their core activity. They have patented countless technologies in their 40+-year existence, and have probably been plundered a couple times.
   
   As I said, let's give them the benefit of the doubt and see what the court says...