Safari for Windows (still on beta)

Its exactly 12:15am and I should be sleeping by now. Well, I was trying to sleep since 10pm but my body clock wont adjust. Hehe. Ok, when my brother got home he tuned the TV to Bandila, that late news show in ABS-CBN. I was covering my head with a big pillow trying to sleep. But the television’s noise could still slip through the spaces between the pillow under my head and the pillow on top. I was startled when I heard the noun Micro$oft. So the first thing that came into my head was “Microsoft? In the news?”. So yes, being a normal tech savvy pinoy, I waited on standby to see the news about M$. When I heard Apple was featuring Safari for Windows my jaw dropped. And yes, with excitement, I ran to my computer (which was still online), and googled “Safari for Windows”. Saw Apple’s Safari site and as expected, headline was about Safari for Windows. Downloaded it for like 3-5 minutes which sized about 8mb and launched the installer.

Now I am here, typing in my wordpress blog about Safari. I dont want to spoil the looks and interface. I want you to see it for yourself. So sorry, no screenies.

Conclusion: Ilavit. I mean, the interface looks great, the text and bars are like based from the famous Linux’ desktop environment, KDE. Maybe just like Konqueror, or Opera in K/Ubuntu. Though the hotkeys greatly differs from those in Firefox. Like you press CTRL+TAB to switch tabs in Firefox, and you press CTRL+} or { which will require you to press the SHIFT Key. Middle-clicking a tab wont close it, not like in Firefox. BUT Safari features Private Browsing which will not record or save any history of your browsing when it is engaged.

I really love it. I cant wait for the major release. I know it would be muuuuuch better.

Ill be editing this post maybe tomorrow. For now, I better sleep.

HOWTO: Run a Linux Live CD ISO Inside Windows

Too impatient to burn your iso image file to a CD and try your newly downloaded distro? here’s a not-less-than-1-minute howto to run your Live CD inside Windows.

“not-less-than-1-minute” = assuming you have downloaded and installed all necesarry files.

Here is the originial link: http://www.lifehack.org/articles/technology/beginners-guide-run-linux-like-any-other-program-in-windows.html

Here is my summarized version:

1. Download and install vmware player from http://www.vmware.com/download/player/ and extract this config file to any desired folder to run live CDs from http://linux.wolphination.com/data/OS.zip

2. Open the file named OS.vmx (VMWare Configuration File, 1Kb) with notepad.

3. On the line that says “C:\Your file” change it to point to your linux live cd iso file. For example, mine is D:\OS\pclinuxos-2007 since i copy pasted my file to where i extracted the OS zip files.

note: do not delete the double quotes when you edit the file

4. Now click on OS.vmx to start your “live cd booting”.

5. Have fun.

Step by step Ubuntu Studio Installation Tutorial

I’d really really love to switch to linux and I just found another eyecandy for me. Its Ubuntu Studio 7.04. I have 4GB left to fill my 54GB data partition (this is my reason to my kuya for having to reformat the computer, kunwari its already full but all what is inside are junks and undeleted DVDrip movies sizing upto 900mb each, hehehe). *sigh* I already have MEPIS 6.5 in my stack.

Anyway here’s a digg for you.. or a blink.. or another del.icio.us favorite. A step by step tutorial in installing Ubuntu Studio 7.04

Link’s here: http://www.howtoforge.com/ubuntustudio_7.04