9:17 Feb 7th, 2010 | Notes

Google’s iPhone web search has been improved recently. It now displays a bigger search box and search button. It’s vastly better from the previous version which I found impossible to use. However, the search box still makes no sense when you consider there is another search box already built into Safari on the iPhone. See it there? The one with ‘Google’ in it? Now see the one below it? See why Google did this? Maybe? Yeah me neither.

Google’s iPhone web search has been improved recently. It now displays a bigger search box and search button. It’s vastly better from the previous version which I found impossible to use. However, the search box still makes no sense when you consider there is another search box already built into Safari on the iPhone.

See it there? The one with ‘Google’ in it? Now see the one below it? See why Google did this? Maybe? Yeah me neither.

11:52 Dec 26th, 2009 | Notes

Google Reader, everyone’s favorite way to get their favorite parts of the internet delivered straight to them. But I’ve always had one problem, it’s looks. Now, I’m not one to judge purely on looks alone. I know that Google Reader is beautiful on the inside, but let’s not forget that it is still a website with no feelings. Therefore I have no qualms in saying it’s pretty ugly considering we’re in 2009. So welcome to the prettier, Mac like Google Reader, courtisy of this, Google Reader for Mac. First up, it’s not a desktop app. Google Reader for Mac is a skin for the normal Google Reader website that does nothing more than making it look better. You can install it on any web browser excluding Safari, which is why I run it in Fluid. So try it out for yourself, by finding the instructions somewhere on the website. I’m curious, will you get it working, or will you start to panic at the thought of installing a userscript?

Google Reader, everyone’s favorite way to get their favorite parts of the internet delivered straight to them. But I’ve always had one problem, it’s looks. Now, I’m not one to judge purely on looks alone. I know that Google Reader is beautiful on the inside, but let’s not forget that it is still a website with no feelings. Therefore I have no qualms in saying it’s pretty ugly considering we’re in 2009.

So welcome to the prettier, Mac like Google Reader, courtisy of this, Google Reader for Mac. First up, it’s not a desktop app. Google Reader for Mac is a skin for the normal Google Reader website that does nothing more than making it look better. You can install it on any web browser excluding Safari, which is why I run it in Fluid.

So try it out for yourself, by finding the instructions somewhere on the website.

I’m curious, will you get it working, or will you start to panic at the thought of installing a userscript?

9:21 Jun 9th, 2009 | Notes

Safari 4. Once again, little changes from Apple. The full release of Safari 4 gets rid of the tabs at the very top of the screen which became loved by few, hated by many during the beta. I was in the ‘loved by few’ camp. As a total efficiency fiend, the prospect of gaining at least half a centimeter of screen real-estate by moving the tabs to the title bar was positively breathtaking! Seriously! Now that moved the tabs back to their traditional position, below the address bar, I’m choosing to keep Safari 4 Beta packaged away neatly for a rainy day when I will be in need of it’s bold offerings.

Safari 4.

Once again, little changes from Apple. The full release of Safari 4 gets rid of the tabs at the very top of the screen which became loved by few, hated by many during the beta.

I was in the ‘loved by few’ camp. As a total efficiency fiend, the prospect of gaining at least half a centimeter of screen real-estate by moving the tabs to the title bar was positively breathtaking! Seriously! Now that moved the tabs back to their traditional position, below the address bar, I’m choosing to keep Safari 4 Beta packaged away neatly for a rainy day when I will be in need of it’s bold offerings.