tyHATCH / Notebook

With Apple’s release of Safari for Windows yesterday (BTW, the redesign–or should I say realignment: Beautiful! As all things Apple tend to be. Haven’t dug too far into it yet thought. But I’m really enjoying it. Absolutely stunning update, cudos to their entire team for pulling it off.) Apple’s set the stage for a major offensive for dominance online.

As a strategic move on Apple’s part, it makes complete sense. With Safari now running on PCs, the immenent release of the iPhone–internet browsing powered by Safari–and a firm lock on the Mac browser market–not discounting Camino, Firefox, Opera, OmniWeb Shiira, et. al, all fine browsers in their own right, Apple can now develop, along with others, online applications without worrying about shutting out a particular market segment. Of course they do have some challenges in overcoming issues with financial institutions and the like, but most importantly they have a browser in place where they need it to be, on the devices that connect to the Internet the most. It will be interesting to see what the online landscape looks like this time next year.

That does raise the question of will Safari be available as a stand alone mobile browser as Opera Mobile is now? I hope so. My gut feeling tells me that this step might technologically still be a ways off.

Whoa! I don’t know what to think. First, Cameron points out the new design over at Apple. Surfing around a bit, I do like it. What blows me away though is a little nugget over in the downloads section. Safari for Windows! (Mind explosion!)

My thoughts:

1. About time! (Die-hard Mac guy. I love to see PC folk experience some form of Mac goodness.)
2. If this goes like iTunes for Windows did, IE’s in serious trouble.
3. What was Steve thinking during D5, knowing this was coming out within a couple weeks of sitting down right next to Bill?

‘nuf said.

Late night surfing over at MacUpdate, found me noticing a rather significant release from yesterday. Don’t know how I missed it, but Adobe’s released a public beta for Photoshop CS3! Wow!

What’s significant is that it marks Adobe’s first ever public beta for their flagship product. There’s a nifty little video over at MacWorld with John Nack and Jason Snell discussing it. I’d recommend you check it out.

I’ll just postulate for a second as to why I think that Adobe’s making this particular move: there are a lot of pissed off creative pros using Intel Macs with a slow CS2 version of Photoshop. A large enough, and vocal enough number that Adobe’s released the public beta as a feel good, “don’t-be-mad-at-us-because-we’re-not-releasing-until-summer-2007″ gesture.

Why do I say tha you ask? Simple. The only way you’re going to get the CS3 beta to work longer than 2 days is to have a valid CS2 serial.

With that said, I’m truly excited by what I saw in the brief demo video by Mr. Snell. The quick selection tool looks fantastic, can’t wait to try it out personally (Which’ll have to wait until I get to work on Monday as I’m only running CS at home… Bugger.)

Just got back from a relaxing weekend with the family and discovered that I had some email issues while away. If you tried to email me this weekend (between June 30 and July 4), most of, if not all of, my incoming email didn’t get delivered, just bounced back to the original sender. If you sent me something, would you mind resending it? I’ll reply to it as soon as I can. Thanks.

Just pushed the new front page live and updated my header graphic here. Still working on putting the blog and site together (gotta put on my coder hat and dig into WP or TextPattern to see what I can do) but at least they’re somewhat visually synched up now. I’d love to hear what you think.

Another post coming soon talking about the design, until then you can browse my portfolio

So I’ll admit that I get a few solicitations via email that are sent from legit sources occasionally. But this morning I got one that was pretty off-base and got me wondering if some companies just ignore any data they get when creating their promotional mailings?

Case in point: This is from Free Biz Mag who have been the source for some decent subscriptions for myself. But a lot of their offers have been a bit off-base. I’ve gotten offers for golf magazines (sadly not enough time or money to persue), sailing magazines (I’m rather land-locked) and my personal favorite, Opera News (huh?). But this morning took the cake.

What free subscription did they offer me? I’ll let the picture speak for itself: