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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...
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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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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