Today at WWDC 2009, Apple removed the beta label from Safari 4 and released it for Leopard, Tiger, and Windows. This finalized version of the browser includes Top Sites, as well as other new features that make browsing the web easier. Also, Safari 4 will increase the speed of surfing the web. Apple has claimed that users will notice that Safari renders JavaScript 7.8 times faster than Internet Explorer 8 and 5X faster than Chrome.

It happened last year, and it happened again this year. The tech sector of the internet is seeing a fair share of headlines to the tune of “Safari hacked in 10 Seconds!” At the Pwn2Own conference this year, Charlie Miller, who hacked Safari last year to much the same media explosion, used Safari to gain control of a MacBook in under ten seconds. Sounds like we should be worried, right?

One really powerful feature in Mac OS X that many users don’t know about or know how to use is Automator and its easy integration with the Finder. In the Automator, you can create custom workflows that you can then add to the Finder’s contextual menu. The flaw with this integration is that these commands are hidden within a submenu of a submenu in the contextual menu.

Well, okay, maybe that’s a little mean. But, for the core of my Mac experience, that little blue smiley face certainly does some dumb things. On the list: The Path Bar, No “Sticky Move,” Remember the Freaking Size of Windows! The Trash Can. What would you add?

If you ask a worker at the Apple Store about antivirus software for the Mac, you may hear that you don’t need it at all because, “Macs don’t get viruses.” However, this information may no longer hold true. At least Apple itself doesn’t think so. According to a recently published knowledge base article from Apple, more »

Security firm and software creator Intego has announced this week that a new trojan for the Mac is on the loose and is known as RSPlug.D, a different form of the RSPlug.A trojan. How does it work? First, you must go to a malicious website, particularily some porn sites. Then, when the “Video ActiveX Object more »

With Bill Gates’ departure from his everyday role at Microsoft having happened over a month ago now, I thought it might be a good time to reflect on what this means for Apple’s relationship with Microsoft, and vice versa.

I think that despite Bill’s obvious place in the Windows-based world, he still has and has always had a certain affinity for the Mac platform and many of Apple’s products. Let’s not forget that Bill was so very involved in software for the original Macintosh, and agreed to form probably Apple’s single most important partnership that, in my opinion, likely saved Apple from going under in the late 90s.

Video and more thoughts after the break.

Limit Point Software’s MenuMinder, which allows you to “…create quick, simple alert, email and SMS Text Message (mobile phone) reminders using the system-wide menu that can be accessed from any application,” has been updated to version 1.5.1. To get this $10 application that works with Mac OS X 10.4 or higher, simply download it and more »

Net Applications, an online company that is geared towards finding the market shares of various companies, has found that Mac OS X is in second place for operating systems with a 7.94% share. Let’s just round and bring that up to 8%, alright? The only operating system beating Mac OS X is obviously Windows with more »

Many Nikon film scanners have received a Silverfast update that now allows for Leopard compatibility. Nikon originally told the owners of these older film scanners they will not be supported in Mac OS X 10.5. However, the software now runs on PPC and Intel based Macs, can work all the way down to Mac OS more »