I love these things!

I can’t seem to give it up. My favorite web browser is still Safari.

I know, I know… Firefox is more widely used, Opera has that cool “speed-dial” thingy, but I love Mac. And I love iLife integration. And I love trying to use Apple applications for everything I can. (I’m still holding strong with Aperture!)

Anyway, this morning, Apple made version 3.1 of Safari available for free download. It’s available for both PC and Mac here.

One of my favorite new features (I haven’t spent much time exploring yet) is the Develop menu that can be activated in the program’s preferences. As a web developer, it allows me to quickly analyze a page’s scripts, CSS, image elements, etc, and compare their performance in different browsers. Previously, I’d used the Web Developer extension in Firefox for this purpose.

The detailed documentation on Safari 3.1 from Apple is available here.

As predicted, Apple updated their MacBook and MacBook Pro laptops today, and there are some exciting changes…enough to make my MacBook Pro feel inferior.

Both models now feature the Intel Penryn Pro Core 2 Duo processor with faster processor speeds. As is typical of Apple, the price points for the machines stay about the same while the performance and capacity of the machines goes up.

Read on for the details…

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I was excited to discover from a macnn article today that the multitouch technology, first released with the iPhone and now existing on the iPod Touch and MacBook Air as well, is simply a software feature. This means that, potentially, the ability to swipe through pages, zoom in and out of images with a pinch or spread of the fingers, or possibly more could be added to existing MacBooks and/or MacBook Pros with a software update.

No official release plans have been laid out by Apple, but it’s exciting news, nonetheless!

Apple released its much-anticipated 10.5.2 update for OX 10.5 (Leopard) today. Run Software Update on your Mac to receive the new update. I’ll spare you the details, but information can be found from Apple here.

A new application was released yesterday by Pangea Software called Bracketeer. This Mac utility allows photographers to combine different exposures of the same image into a new “enfused” image with a much higher range of tones.

At first glance, this looks pretty cool, but I haven’t had a chance to play with it much. I’ll re-post with more information once I’ve tried it. Pangea also has a panorama software available. There are free demos available, but it’s only $20 for both programs, so if it works, I’ll throw down for that.