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Popular Mac Plugin Saft updated for Safari 3.0.4

When you go to set up a new computer, there's always your list of "essential" applications; i.e., applications you simply cannot function without. For some the first install is Firefox and its most-loved extensions. Maybe it's Outlook and your mail account. Hopefully there's an Antivirus application thrown in there somewhere.

When it comes to a Mac, there's one essential plugin that rules them all.

That plugin is Saft, for Safari.

Saft adds an incredible amount of customizable options to Safari: draggable tabs, full-screen browsing, auto-hiding the downloads window, plain copy, tab thumbnails, and so on. It even has ad and image blocking built in (though we've found that Safari 3 AdBlock works better at that function, at least for now).

Saft even covers the little things. For example, if you wanted a new tab in Firefox, you just double-click the tab bar, and voila, a new tab. With Safari, you have to use a keyboard shortcut to get a new tab. (For some people, that is an improvement; but some are clickers, and some are clackers). With Saft installed, no problem. You might call Saft the "Firefoxer" of Safari.

Saft has just been updated for Safari version 3.0.4. It seems that Apple's last security update for Mac OS X Leopard broke Saft temporarily. Thankfully, that issue has been speedily resolved in Saft 10.0.4.

Simply put, Safari without Saft is like Derek Zoolander without Blue Steel. We'll let you figure out the implications of that.

You can download Saft as a trial or register for a reasonable fee of $12.

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Forumwarz - a potentially offensive time waster

I pwn UAfter spending the better part of an hour on Forumwarz I still can't decide if it's just sick or if it's kind of fun. It's a bit like a car wreck on the highway. I know I shouldn't be looking but I can't quite turn away.

It's sick, it's twisted, it's the internet on it's worst level and darn it, it's kind of fun. At least for a little while.

Forumwarz is a parody role-playing game that takes place on the internet - or at least the Forumwarz version of it. Your goal is to complete missions that are given to you through a mock up of GoogleTalk called Sentrillion.

Your first "friend" is ShallowEsophagus who begins giving you missions to pwn various forums by being a troll. Depending on the character type you are assigned at start up, you have tools like drooling on the keyboard or bashing your head on the keyboard that you can use to destroy forum threads and eventually, pwn a forum.

Future missions involve buying illegal software from the Russians, pwning more difficult forums and other internet oddness.

Completing missions gives you cash, called Flezz in game, and items that you can pawn or use in other missions. The game is NOT for those easily offended. It's crass, coarse and there are frequent f-bombs in the fake chat sessions.

This is also a game for a more mature audience as it requires you to shop at the Drugs R Fun store to get various concoctions to improve your playing, engage in certain cyber activities to get more Flezz and just generally use a more adult perspective.

If you can get past that, here are the more enjoyable and time-wasting aspects.

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