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Shiira niche-in-a-niche web browser updated
by Victor Agreda, Jr. Jul 14th 2005 at 1:56PM
Got a Mac but Safari doesn't "do it" for you? All those Firefox extensions weighing you down? Does even Camino seem anemic? Give Shiira a try, it's the lightest little browser in town for OSX and it graduated to 1.1 today.The best part of this update is the return of support for Panther. Pre-v.1 releases worked, then 1 didn't. Now Panther is supported again. This is nice for me, as my backup iBook (soon to be called into service for yet another issue with my primary iBook) is an old 500 MHz G3. I am so not putting Tiger on there.
Perhaps the coolest feature in Shiira is the Tab Exposé. Sometimes in Safari there's that question: to tab or not? Tabbed browsing keeps down the clutter, but you can't use Exposé to show all the tabs. Shiira can do that, albeit within the app itself (not using the OS Exposé). That's nice for a web junky like me...
I don't know if this is a labor of love or merely the brainchild of four very gifted games designers, but Level Up is a really weird mash-up of gaming elements that you have probably never seen in a Flash game before.
Let's start with the premise itself: Groundhog Day meets Memento. The game experience revolves around 'days': you explore the world and the clock slowly ticks towards the evening. You bounce around picking up gems and talking to the denizens of 'Level Upland'. Eventually you feel tired and head back to ...
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dalton said 9:32PM on 7-14-2005
Seems very slick. Is it just me, or this to Safari what Firefox was to Mozilla Browser? The tab expose feature is very nice. Anyone know how to sync it with Safari bookmarks?
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Pieter Hartzenberg said 1:39AM on 8-06-2005
If you dig 1.1 you shoud definatly get the latest build 1.1 build(0731), there are so many in inhancements my favorites include added rss in either HTML or Quartz RSS and the super improved page transition effect that has a much more realistic look (be sure to quit Shiira after enabeling this option).
This is one slick (unified aqua theme), snappy, techno wetdream.
:)
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