Safari 5 was released quietly today and I have to say so far I really like it. I approve. Go download it from Apple if you haven't already.
Yeah, that iPhone 4 hardware is cool and all. Renaming the operating system iOS was genius (it was iPhone OS). That FaceTime thing is cool, with it's easy switching from front facing and rear facing cameras, and it's supposed to be open-sourced tomorrow so hopefully people will get excited about new technology instead of bitch more about the lack of old stuff.
(Did anyone catch the coy way Steve said FaceTime would be on over 10million iDevices this year? not iPhones, but iDevices. Does that mean front and rear facing cameras on iPods and (dare I say it) iPads?)
Yeah, I watched all that and I simply must have one. Or two if Tim wants to use one, too.
But the cool thing that came out today that I can use today was Safari 5. It is faster. It has some cool plug-ins coming (Coda Notes from Panic is one I'll require all my clients to use from now on…). My new favorite feature is the reader.
When you are looking at a blog like this one and there is too much going on (pictures, ads, links, surveys, etc), just click the reader button next to the URL at the top of the page and it'll dim out the website and scroll up a white page in the center with LARGE text and embedded pictures and none of the extra clutter. Gone is the color layout, gone is the crap you don't care about, gone is the microscopic print that my old eyes can't read.
I'm sure the pureblood designers hate this, but we users are loving it! Go Apple!
…now if they'd just start syncing iTunes wirelessly to my iPhone like they do to my AppleTV… I'm just sayin'…
