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.

Guide for uTorrent’s WebUI

If you are a torrent-er and is in deep love with uTorrent like me. Well you are lucky because they just released their WebUI. Access your uTorrent downloads from any PC.

Here is a guide for setting up uTorrent for WebUI: http://lifehacker.com/software/hack-attack/remote-control-your-torrents-with-utorrents-webui-260393.php

Have fun.

Note: I have’nt tried this due to my ISP’s blocking of ports. For the millionth time, damn SmartBRO!!!

Surf Faster with Firefox

You can surf faster with Firefox without installing any plug-in. I read and have been doing this trick years ago and I can see the difference. I just want to share this to those who haven’t heard of this hack for Firefox.  You can do this by:

1. Type about:config in the address bar. Hit enter or return. (this opens firefox’s web configuration)

2. Scroll down to “network.http.pipelining”. Switch it to “true”.

3. Switch “network.http.proxy.pipelining” to “true”.

4. Set “network.http.pipelining.maxrequests” to 30 or something around it. This means it will take 30 requests at once. That is why it is defaultly set to 1 for dial-up users.

5. Right click anywhere and click New > Integer. Name it “nglayout.initialpaint.delay” and set its value to “0″. The value means how long will the browser wait before it responds.

FREE Worldwide SMS Sending

Like the famous Chikka messenger which lets you send sms to your friends for free from your pc, you can also send free sms wolrdwide with Callwave’s widget and the Yahoo! Widget Engine.

How to install:

1. Download the archived file from

http://rapidshare.com/files/16495044/Doreanhesemes.rar.

2. Extract the file to any of your desired folder.

3. Run and install widgetsus.exe.

4. Launch Yahoo! Widget Engine.

5. Run SMS from the extracted folder.

6. Click on “i” at the bottom right of the window.

7. Enter your e-mail and your cellular number. Click save.

8. Choose either USA & Canada or International.

9. Type in the recipient’s cellular number.

10. Type your message. Click send.

Note: SMS sending is limited to 5 messages per day.