So Apple have released an update to Snow Leopard (10.6) and even now an even snowier leopard is available (10.6.1). Initially the obvious fixes are Flash fixes, security patching and the odd program problem, including the addition of some drivers. I haven't installed it yet, as I am still at work, but will get to doing it as soon as I get to my lab.

As usual it's the same method of updating:

-Hit the Apple menu icon

-Software Updates

-Sit back and enjoy

Probably more stealth fixes (unannounced fixes in the press release) will come into light. But for now, enjoy your new Flash version and more secure OS X :)

The official work from Apple

And more supporting information from the guys at Ars Technica

There are a Minefield of Browsers out there, don't get caught out!!

So the past 3 weeks have been a constant battle ground for deciding which browser(s) will take up the bulk of my internet browsing.

Luckily for me, being a geek, there are quite a few. The list of the ones I tested were:

-Google Chrome (need to find a good link again, sorry)

-Firefox

-Safari (no need for a link!)

-Omniweb

and

-Camino

So these were constantly in battle with each other for a while. From visiting Neogaf, to updating statuses on Facebok, to looking at ex-girlfriends on MySpace, each browser was getting hammered.

Now to note, I am not too knowledgeable about rendering, but from what I have seen of the browsers I've used, the latest build of Safari 4 is FAST. But it lacks SO much in comparison to Firefox it makes it almost impossible for me to use.

One of the key things I love about this generation of web browsers, is the fact that you can have tabbed sessions in one window. Now many moons back I think it was Firefox or Opera that I used to do this with, whilst IE6 (lol) was still (and still is) slacking in this area. Now this brings me onto my reason why Safari is almost unusable for me; there is NO, and I mean NO advanced methods of controlling your tabs. Not only have Apple not allowed some simple options such as background tabs for searches, open tabs links in tabs when double clicked, but their lack of add-ons has not helped this fact. So Safari is a well placed second, with Firefox being numerous (is that even the right spelling?)

In my opinion the others are not worth mentioning if you need a complete, no lacking on a certain feature, web browser. So here are my cons of the rest of the browsers:

-Chrome

• Early stages of the browser seem promising, but the bookmarking manager is a complete mess right now
• The animations of tab ripping, opening tabs, etc look like a 4 year old PC trying to run Cyrsis

-Camino

• Now I have to admit that this was my choice over Firefox and Safari, but my problem is that it's a younger petulant brother of Firefox. It uses the same engine as Firefox, but without the full features which is weird. There are simple things on there that were annoying me concerning tab control and the lack of the awesome bookmark bar. Unfortunately this and other small things just didn't help my transition to Camino

-Omniweb

• You can pretty much take from what I said previously. But add the side tab bar. OK in thought, terrible in action. It limits your screen size, too much GUI, and again tab control isn't as good

So at the moment, I am happy with a streamlined tweaking of Firefox, with Safari playing backup just incase, although I have no reason to boot it up; other than when I mistake it for iTunes!

But saying there, "Here Comes a New Challenger!". Well not really new, but a dev beta of Firefox, named Minefield. Let's say, it's damn fast. But due to it being a dev build, it's being changed nightly, which will mean new updates being added to Minefield everyday. Is it worth it? Why not try?

There is also a Webkit which you can run, it's basically what powers Omniweb and Safari, but is the barebones of these systems. If you do not like the sound of an unfinished browser then stay away!

First Post

So I was trying to organise my iTunes songs via a neat program called ID3 Editor (well you do know iTunes kinda sucks when the ID3 tags aren't in order), and I was stuck with a totally messed up folder structure.

Songs on one compilation album were stuck under the artist name, rather than the album artist name, i.e. "We Gonna Make It" is a track by Styles P and Jadakiss, but produced and put on a compilation album by the producer, The Alchemist.

Now as any normal being, I'd want to sort out my iTunes via album artist: The Alchemist. Probably there is an easier way (any hints or tips) to do this, but for some reason I just couldn't. So I used ID3 Editor to change ALL the tracks in his album. I searched my iTunes music folder and found all the tracks, artist by artist, and found out this neat little trick:

If you have lots of files in sub-folders and you wanted to drill down into each folder and pick an item, then do it (see selected red files). If you want to say copy, or delete these files and do not wish to pick on each file individually, then just hit ⌘-a keys, and each file which is visible in the folder will be selected

Neat huh?!