Looking for alternatives to Safari and Firefox? Take a look at these other browsers:
- Opera - now it is free, and worth checking out. Compatibility issues aside, it is very fast and full of resources, besides great keyboard navigation and a pleasant interface.
- Camino - a Mozilla-based browser with a native Cocoa Interface. Faster than Firefox or Mozilla, but has no support for Firefox extensions.
- Shiira - think of it as Safari RSS (uses the same engine) minus the bugs. The big minus here is that there's no Keychain Access support. Has a nifty 'Tab Exposé' feature.
- Sunrise Browser - the smallest browser for Mac (900k), uses Safari rendering engine and bookmarks, has useful resources for developers, such as showing the url to all the items you mouse over, including videos and other media files. Great page source viewer too. No tabbed browser or RSS though.
- Flock is a new web browser based on Gecko (Firefox and Mozilla engine) and was released some time ago. It's still in developer preview stage but it is fairly stable (never crashed on me) and has lots of interesting features, such as integration with blogging on almost any platform, del.icio.us and Flickr. Also support lots of Firefox extensions.
- iCab - I don't really like this browser, but it is small, fast, supports tabbed browsing and is the only one in this list that runs under Mac OS 8.5 and 9.x (Classic).
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First Post - Instant Messengers
Well, for the first posts of this weblog, let's start with the obvious known freeware apps, mainly for the beginning Mac users who are looking for system customization:
Adium - THE BEST instant messenger for the Mac. Period. You can use it for ICQ, MSN, AIM, Jabber, Yahoo Messenger and other protocols. Only features it lacks are audio and webcam support. Preliminary webcam suport for MSN can be found in aMSN 0.95 beta and Mercury Messenger, though they are kind of heavy and CPU consuming apps.
Fire is also a multi protocol instant messenger with (almost) as many resources as Adium but I never really liked the interface.
Adium - THE BEST instant messenger for the Mac. Period. You can use it for ICQ, MSN, AIM, Jabber, Yahoo Messenger and other protocols. Only features it lacks are audio and webcam support. Preliminary webcam suport for MSN can be found in aMSN 0.95 beta and Mercury Messenger, though they are kind of heavy and CPU consuming apps.
Fire is also a multi protocol instant messenger with (almost) as many resources as Adium but I never really liked the interface.
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