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Apple Hiring Sr. Web UI Designer and Video Editor Product Designer

Apple is looking to hire a Senior Web User Interface Designer to help the company focus on further innovating its online store front, as well as a Video Editor Product Designer who can primarily focus on their pro apps.
The company has posted the available positions on numerous job boards such as 37 Signals’ and Smashing [...]

Safari 4: Three Steps Forward, One Step Back

With the new Safari 4 release, Apple aims to increase its web browser market share while innovating new features and cool new enhancements to what it calls “the fastest browser on the planet.” Indeed the new browser is speedy, but with every step forward Apple takes towards open-standards and accelerating its javascript engine, the more [...]

Apple Releases Safari 4 Public Beta for Mac and Windows Users

Apple has announced that a new version of Safari is available for download. Powered by the “Nitro” engine, Apple claims this version of Safari should render web-pages and run JavaScript 4.2 times faster than its predecessor, Safari 3.
Alongside the new version of Safari, Apple has visually detailed some of the bigger more substantial upgrades or [...]

Apple Loosens Up 3rd Party Web Browser Restrictions in App Store [U]

MacRumors has noticed that over the past 24 hours Apple has allegedly begun loosening up its restrictions that prevent third party web browsers from residing in the App Store.
Apple has already made it publicly known that applications duplicating original iPhone functionality will most likely not make it through the iPhone App Store approval process. Third [...]

Apple Acknowledges Fairly Serious Safari RSS Vulnerability

Apple has acknowledge a moderately frightening Safari RSS vulnerability than makes the browser vulnerable to attack without user intervention.
Brian Mastenbrook, a computer scientist using Apple’s Safari browser discovered the bug and reported it to Apple.
“I have discovered that Apple’s Safari browser is vulnerable to an attack that allows a malicious web site to [...]

New Firefox Build Adds Support for Multi-Touch Gestures

As MacRumors notes, this Monday Mozilla released its latest beta version of Firefox 3.1. Across all supported platforms, the “Beta 2″ version of the popular web browser will include:

-Private Browsing Mode
-Faster JavaScript engine
-Improved rendering
-Support for new web technologies
Users of Apple’s newest line of laptops, with built in multi-touch trackpad support, will also be pleased [...]

Mobile Optimized Websites, More Harm Than Good? 7 Sites Compared

Many websites automatically redirect iPhones to mobile versions of their sites. These mobile sites often deliver limited content, wasted space, and eliminate zooming. Below are mobile versions and the real version as seen on the iPhone.

Amazon
As you can see, a lot of content has been removed for Amazon’s mobile site, and the navigation has been [...]

Mac Web Share Hits Record 8.82%, Windows Dips Below 90%

According to a Net Applications web survey issued overnight Monday, Apple’s (AAPL) cut of the “Internet pie” increased in November as the Mac and iPhone hit record numbers in Internet share.
Naturally, this comes at the cost of Microsoft’s web presence, with Windows’ Internet share dropping below 90% for the first time ever and [...]

Apple Is Investigating Gaming, Browser Related Graphics Errors

Apple is investigating two different issues customers are having with their new unibody Macbooks. Some digging around the Apple discussion threads shows that the issues are in fact fairly widespread.
As Macnn explains, the first issue is strictly plaguing Macbook Pros. It involves a “hard lockup”, where the screen will suddenly turn black, during games such [...]

Apple Releases Safari Version 3.2.1 Update

Apple has release an update to its Safari web browser.

The update is said to include stability improvements. Some users are reporting back the update has made Safari much snappier and more responsive as well. The update can be accessed via Software Update and is recommended for all users. [via MacDailyNews]

Patent Infringement Lawsuit Targets iPhone and Mobile Web Surfing

A new lawsuit charges Apple with violating certain patents regarding the iPhone’s Safari Mobile web browser, and the way a user can pinch, zoom, rotate and view web pages. As the Supreme Court tightens its patent policy, this one might be a little trickier to defend.
EMG Technology, LLC claims that Apple is in direct violation [...]

Apple Releases Safari 3.2, Recommended For All Users

Apple has released an update to its Safari web browser. The update is 39MB in size and can be downloaded through software update. Apple is recommending all users download the update.

“This update is recommended for all Safari users and features protection from fraudulent phishing websites and better identification of online businesses. This update also includes [...]

Apple Working On Enhanced (Visual) Search Results?

TechCrunch claims that they’ve received multiple reports leading them to believe that Apple is working on a search engine. Additionally, they are reporting that Google CEO Eric Schmidt may be leaving Apple’s board.
Rumors of Apple developing a search engine in order to compete with the likes of Google and Yahoo seem a bit far fetched. [...]

Feature: Would You Really Want All Your Data and Applications in “The Cloud”?

Google released their very own web browser this week, “Chrome“. Initial reaction has been positive and Google’s stance on cloud computing has become more apparent. Everyone from the NY Times to Google’s own co-founder Sergey Brin have called Operating Systems bulky, and old-fashioned.

Cloud computing is being pushed like never before. Google with Chrome is [...]

Video: Google Founder Sergey Brin: “No Chrome for Macs is Embarrasing”

Google released their much-hyped browser Chrome this week. In response to not having a Mac version of Chrome up-and-running, Google founder Sergey Brin talks for a moment about how embarrassing this is.

Valleywag posted a video of Boomtown’s Kara Swisher (who’s been known to read MacBlogz after our whole “All Things Paczkowski” ordeal), talking to [...]

Feature: [video] Google’s “Chrome” and Mozilla’s “Ubiquity” – Changing the Way We Web

Mozilla and Google are trying to change the way we browse the web. Google with the release of a new web browser called “Chrome”, and Mozilla Labs with mind-blowing projects like “Ubiquity.” Google’s “Chrome” browser is being released today, and the far more impressive “Ubiquity” has been available only as a prototype.

Browsers like Apple’s Safari [...]

Microsoft Releases Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2

Microsoft released a significant upgrade to its Internet Explorer web browser this afternoon. The first edition of IE 8 was for developers, and Microsoft suggests that anybody who browses or uses the web, will love IE 8 beta 2.

During the last year, Internet Explorer’s market share lost six points, falling to 73 percent, still not [...]

No Hope for Mozilla’s Firefox on the iPhone

“Mozilla has dismissed the prospect of a version of Firefox for the iPhone because Apple makes converting the browser “too hard,” reports PcPro.
“Firefox has long been available for Mac OS X computers, but in an interview with Wired, Mozilla CEO John Lilly says there’s no prospect of Firefox being developed for Apple’s Mac OS X-based [...]