Technical Happenings

Safari on windows, why now?

On June 12th Apple announced the release of Safari for Windows, in 2 days it had 1 million downloads. But why was it released at all. Allegedly Safari have near 5% of the browser market, not bad considering to date it only runs on a mac. So it could be they viewed the success of Firefox and thought there was room in the market. However, they could have done this before and if you take a look at browsers statistics by w3schools you find the figure is much lower than stated.  With a little more investigation you find that the IPhone (to be released end June) will have developer access using Safari. Now perhaps a release makes more sense, as most developers are on the windows platform and the IPhone will need these to gain momentum after its initial launch. Whatever the reason, it is worth downloading to see if it suits your needs.

Free collaborative on-line mind mapping

Mind 42 have just released a free on-line mind mapping tool, The sign-up is fast and you’ll be mapping in no-time.   It’s easy to use, offering some basic functions, but more are on the way.  A great feature is the ability to collaborate by sharing your maps, coupled with other tools like basecamp (for project management)  and you can have great control and communication around your project, especially if it’s open source and the team is at disparate locations. collaboration.

Performance patch for Microsoft Outlook 2007

Microsoft have released a patch that fixes a number of issues around the performance of Outlook 2007.

Microsoft indicated that the problem stemmed from RSS feeds, email, and calendar files all being stored in the same .PSD file which as one might imagine could grow in size rather quickly depending on the user.

I loaded the patch and the performance increase is noticeable. Outlook 2007 does have an update facility, but it is unclear if this will be included, as it is not a security fix, also many people have the facility turned off. So i recommend you get the patch here.