because firefox is too slow and heavy, i decided to use safari yesterday. i changed my default browser in my iMac and set some bookmarks. it worked great and looked very clean and neat. i may miss some functionality of firefox, like foxytunes. but it’s ok by now. it’s fast and that’s just what i’ve wanted for so long time.

and also i installed safari 3 public beta in my vista. but it’s not so good as Mac version. i found some bugs in encoding and felt some awkwardness in look-and-feel. and though it’s very fast, not so much fast as i expect compared to IE(when opening just few tabs).

I may wait till beta is over. but i don’t likely to use safari in my vista machine.. (i love my maxthon so much!)

i upgrade to rc1 today. i think parallels is also good, but vmware can share the virtual machine between linux/mac/windows. only one install is enough! and freeware vmware player is also a good solution for a hungry company. so  i decided to use vmware fusion from now..

and i installed windows xp sp2 in  new vmware fusion. the  damned blue screen is displayed in 100% case.  it seemed like win32k.sys has some trouble.. and what the hell is win32k.sys?

i found the solution by yahooing. set virtual machine’s memory to 128MB, and the installation went smooth. this situation is also occured in vmware player, too. i think it’s not desirable in rc1 software. i wish they fix this bug in normal version.

neo office is a clone of OpenOffice for os x. i just downloaded and installed it. it looks perfect and does not  break page layout. that’s enough. there’s no need to buy MS Office any more.

http://www.neooffice.org/

as a mac user i see the anticipated iphone today. it’s a fantastic machine though somewhat expensive. it has an embedded safari browser, so i can see every normal site for pc through it. but it’s no surprise, in japan.  full browser support phone was sold since 2005 in this country.

my main job was related to the japan mobile market. so i aware the importance of unobstrusive web technique very early. where the mobile  technology  goes  advance, also old-fashioned html technique needed more. like bitmap graphic technique is needed in mobile game in this 3D Game age.

so, iphone will be prevailed in america and world-wide sooner or later. many competitive phones embedded brower will be available everywhere. and you know there’re more and more phones than pcs in the world. and that time, browser market share will be changed drastically. especially big fat ie will not be the major browser any more. i can’t even assure the position of firefox. safari or opera or customed browser(i.e. vodafone browser, docomo browser, qualcomm browser) who targeted mobile market from early days will be the champion of next browser war.

i thinks  it takes not so long time. as a web developer, we have to prepare sites for the limited resources. well-tuned tags & unobstrusive javascript and css support for small window and slow traffics. cookie may be unavailable, also. we have to focus on every html component, check every componenet is unobstrusive, not only javascript.

since you can do many thing by keyboard short cut in apple, you can mistake so easily, also. yesterday i faced some trouble, because voice over is turned on, and contrast is up. i surprised and rebooted the pc, but no changes.. it’s because all universal access is available at keyboard short cut.

so turn off your keyboard shortcut, especially universal access, it’s useless and bug-pron.

everyday i learn something about my iMac. i think it’s good, because windows doesn’t provide this kind of customizing experience.

i use iTerm in mac, and notice that mac’s default terminal output is monochrome.. does it make you surprise?

umm.. so i decide to display some color. and i set the background black, it is needed to change color sheme..

default ls command in mac lacks of functions, i install gnu fileutils and get ls from there.

and set .bashrc like this

alias ls=’ls –color=auto -NF’ 
export LS_COLORS=’no=00:fi=00:di=01;33:ln=01;36:pi=33:so=01;35:
bd=01;33:cd=01;33:ex=01;32:*.c=36:*.cc=36:*.h=33:*.cmd=01;32:*.exe=01;32:
*.com=01;32:*.btm=01;32:*.bat=01;32:*.app=01;32:*.tar=00;31:*.tgz=00;31:
*.arj=00;31:*.taz=00;31:*.lzh=00;31:*.zip=00;31:*.z=00;31:*.Z=00;31:*.gz=00;31:
*.sit=00;31:*.sitX=00;31:*.zip=00;31:*.bin=00;31:*.hqx=00;31:*.jpg=00;35:
*.jpeg=00;35:*.gif=00;35:*.bmp=00;35:*.xbm=00;35:*.xpm=00;35:*.tif=00;35:
*.tiff=00;35:*.pdf=00;35:*.avi=00;35:*.mov=00;35:*.mpg=00;35:*.mpeg=00;35:
*.asf=00;35:*.wmv=00;35:*.rm=00;35:*.swf=00;35:*.mp3=00;35:*.aiff=00;35:
*.aif=00;35:*.snd=00;35:*.wav=00;35:’

i upgade vi to vim using darwin port,  and set .vimrc like this

syntax on
colorscheme darkblue

it works fine to me.. good luck to mac users!

my company decide to use iMac as a development machine! i received iMac 24inch, 2GB model yesterday and finished all setups now.. it’s just a great machine, and you never believe all windows programs are running on OSX desktop under the parallels’s coherence mode.

just amazing! i decide to use apple only as a development machine from now.