Apple has released the first stable version of Safari (3.1) for Windows. Perhaps it's not what a windows user should like, I mean, it's not proper etiquette. But it sure is cool!

According to Apple it's supposed to be quicker than both ie and firefox and other sources told me that Safari performed the best acid2 test.

Check it out here

 

Beta 3 of firefox 3 was released today, and a exciting new look was introduced. The toolbar is very clean! Yet futuristic and appealing.

  My other favorite news in firefox 3 (but not necessarily introduced in beta 3)

• Slim menu bar (means more browsing space)
  
• Improved (rewritten) bookmark system which is integrated with rss subscriptions
• Faster loading
• The drop down of the address bar contains title and description of the page, very nice too!

Get it now at getfirefox.com 

I proudly present the 10001:th entry about notepad replacements in windows!

My favorite is metapad - it might not be the fastest or the lightest nor does it have all the super cool features - But it is a good compromise of all categories. Try it!

To replace it in windows vista, I found a good guide on simonguest.com's blog. Here's a quick recap:

Start a cmd prompt as admin and write:
1: takeown /f {path_to_notepad}\notepad.exe
then
2: cacls {path_to_notepad}\notepad.exe /G {username}:F
for both c:\windows\system32\ and c:\windows\ because notepad.exe is located in both (as simonguest forgot to mension)
3: rename metapad.exe to notepad.exe and copy+replace to both locations (start with system32\)

Go download metapad from the coolest url ever: liquidninja.com!

There has been a lot of hacks recently (bilddagboken.se, efterfesten.com, aftonbladet.com). So there's a good point in using different passwords on every site if you want to minimize the risk. That was one of the stupid mistakes, but not the biggest, that the admin of efterfesten.com seems to have made. I feel no sympathy for these site admins that takes lightly on security. Let them be thaught a lesson!

  A tip to these site admins: Mix your passwords and store them in a central and safe place, like KeePass Password Safe. Some features are 

• Strong Security
• Multiple User Keys
• Portable and No Installation Required 

It’s got a kickass compression algorithm, no doubt about that.

 
Today I realized that just because it’s an open source freeware hippie project, it justifies them to have a big fat button named “Background” in the extracting dialog. The button should of course make the window reside in the tray bar. But NO – no matter how many times you push it - nothing happens, nada! I want to do this every time I extract something.

 
They’ve had this dummy button in their latest stable version for several months. We’re dealing with a bunch of really dedicated good programmers, but apparently They Can’t Fix This Annoyance, and who blames them? They’re holy open sourcerers. I say fix it!

 Get it now - http://www.7-zip.org

 Edit: After this article I was told that the button is used to toggle the working thread priority. But hey; that's no good GUI design.