Go and get it!

Looks like this time we did it!

I’m speaking about one of the big Microsoft news of these days (together with SIlverlight 3, Blend and its brand new SketchFlow feature, ecc.): the final version of Internet Explorer 8 saw the light of the web..

Honestly I’ve never been a big fan of old IE, but I installed it on my netbook (a Samsung NC 10 with Windows XP Home) and it feels fast.
Maybe not as fast as Chrome, but the results are quite good and I’m going to use this new browser a lot in the next few days to see how things go: anyway the fact that a new version of a Microsoft product works better than the old one on not so powerful hardware, says a lot about the good direction that the company is taking. You may like or not Microsoft, but better software is a  win for everybody out there!

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Safari 3.0.2 for windows.. At long last!!

At the WWDC 07 Apple announced that it would the Browser-Wars proposing its own Safari web-browser on Windows too.I think that a new player in the field can be a good thing and push the market in a new direction. Well, I was so excited and curious that I downloaded Safari for Windows as soon as the Apple servers were ready to deliver it. Imagine my disappointment when I tried to use the webpages I visit every day and.. nothing was working as it was expected. GMail, blogspot, Libero, etc. all of this pages had big font rendering problems due to some issue with international OS version (I'm using Windows XP in Italian). On another machine I got XP in English and there Safari was working better.
Today I read the Safari 3.0.2 has beee released, so, a quick run of "Apple Software Update" and here it is my new shining Safari installation. Let's try GMail.. works! Blogspot: perfect! So, Kudos to the Apple team (and to all the people involved in WebKit and khtml) for the good work. I'm looking forward the possibility to make Safari my new default web-browser.
Anyway, does somebody know about embedding scenarios for WebKit on Windows? I'd be interested in incorporating WebKit in a C# application....
Anyway, go to www.apple.com/safari and give it a try!

La TV del futuro.. e non solo

Ho "trovato" questo filmato in rete, che parla di una nuova tecnologia per una sorta di "realta' virtuale". Sara' deformazione professionale dovuta ad alcune mie esperienze passate, ma per me e' impossibile non pensare alle applicazioni in spettacoli TV, programmi per bambini (e non solo), live shows, etc. Guardatevi il filmato, in alcune parti e' impossibile trattenere uno "WOW"!
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