Alongside the Mac OS X 10.4.11 updates today, Apple also released a new beta of Safari for Windows.The latest Safari beta for Windows incorporates a number of stability, performance and security improvements. A number of new features are detailed as well, including:

New Features

1. Allows windows to be resized from any side
2. Includes an additional font smoothing option (”standard”)
3. Adds International text input methods
4. Adds advanced text options (contextual forms, international scripts)
5. Supports NTLM
6. Includes auto-detection of PAC files
7. Supports listing FTP directories
8. Links to proxy settings from Safari (Safari respects the proxy settings in the Windows Internet control panel)
9. Adds cookie management
10. Adds LiveConnect support
11. Includes tooltips
12. Adds spell checking and grammar checking
13. Allows printing of page numbers, titles, margins
14. Improves bookmark collection interface
15. Maintains original order of imported bookmarks
16. Adds an interface for editing AutoFill information
17. History searches now search the full text of visited websites
18. Adds a new preference to manually mark RSS articles as read
19. Includes support for tilt wheels

Apple also incorporated Safari 3 with the Mac OS X 10.4.11 update, bringing the final version of Safari 3 to Tiger users. Apple first released Safari for Windows in June at WWDC 2007.

Download : Safari 3.0.4 (Windows)

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Have you used your printer to print out your photos ? Or do you have a printer or you are bored waiting in the line at the photo studio for photograph prints. If the answer is “Yes” , I have a easy method for you to take your prints from your computer.

Do you know that you can “Order online prints of photos inside Windows XP” ? I am sure many don’t know about this and have not tried it.Here is a quick tutorial.

1 . Open the folder where you have kept your valuable photographs.

2 .In the left task pane you should see an option “Order prints online” underneath “Picture Tasks”, as shown in the screenshot. Click this option.

3 . An “Online Print Ordering Wizard” dialog box will pop up. Click “Next”.

4 . You can now check or uncheck which pictures to print, as shown in the above screenshot. After you have made your selection, click “Next”.

5 . You will be presented with several printing companies. Choose your desired company and click “Next”.

6 . After Windows XP downloads information from the selected printing company, follow the on-screen prompts to select your photo sizes and other printing options. During this process you will have to enter your personal information and credit card to place your order.

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Knoll Light Factory by Digital Anarchy.Orginally created by Photoshop’s co-creator, John Knoll, Light Factory was created to produce the photon torpedo effect for the Star Trek movies.

What do you think Light Factory (Version 3.0) ,do that Photoshop’s built-in lighting effects not able to do?According to Jim Tierney, Digital Anarchy’s president:

The lights that can be created and simulated go far beyond the simple lens flare that is built into Photoshop. Photoshop’s Lens Flare has three preset looks and the only thing that you can change is the position, size, and brightness. Knoll Light Factory provides over a 100 different light and flare presets. Each light/flare is created using combinations of the 17 different element types that occur when a light is photographed. The Light elements can be combined in any way, with lots of copies of only couple elements, one instance of each element, or any combination in between. Each element has five to ten different adjustable parameters, providing a practically infinite number of configurations and combinations.

Image credit:Macworld

Light Factory offers a series of options in the Preset list on the left side. You simply need to double-click the elements you wish to apply to your image. A list of selective elements (Elements of Lights), you can switch them on or off to view the results of different settings.Below are the Element Parameters, where each effect can be customized individually.

Once you customize each Element, you can adjust the overall effects of the Light Elements just below the large preview image. And unlike Photoshop’s built-in lighting effects, Light Factory allows full control over the movement of the lighting in your image. Just click and drag the flares around in the preview image.

image credit : Macworld

The $149 Knoll Light Factory 3.0 is a Universal Binary plug-in, compatible with Photoshop 7.0 through CS3 and Photoshop Elements 3.0 and 4.0 (and Elements 5.0 on Windows), and a demo is available to get your hands dirty. It works perfectly on my Mac Pro running Leopard and Photoshop CS3.This is a spectacular plugin if works with lots of images that need a extra lighting.

courtesy : Macworld

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PayPerPost will be launching a new social network in January 2008 called SocialSpark.The company says about 85,000 bloggers and 11,000 advertisers will create profiles. Users visiting the site will then “browse the public profiles of advertisers and bloggers along with their associated sponsorship and blog related data.”

SocialSpark also promises to have an open API, so as to allow “information to flow into and out of the system”, and will offer support for Google’s OpenSocial.

Analytics tools installed on a blogger’s blog allow SocialSpark to provide traffic data on the blog’s public profile. Advertisers are provided with a complete picture of a blog’s influence including visits and page views, along with other demographic information such as aggregate gender, age, location, interest and other visitor information. That data allows advertisers to build their street teams based on the audience of the blogger. Once a campaign is launched, advertisers can monitor CPC and CPM as well as gauge brand awareness and campaign impact across the blogosphere.

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