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Wed, 05 Jun 2002
Mozilla 1.0 Released
After a long beta test period, Mozilla 1.0 has finally been released. For more information or to download a copy, go to www.mozilla.org.
This version looks like a winner. It's faster even than the last release candidate, most likely because any debugging code has been removed.
Check out some of the additional themes at mozilla.org - I especially like the pinball theme (even though it doesn't use standard OS X controls), since the toolbars are very small and unobtrusive.
Unsanity releases Silk for MacOS X 10.1.5
Silk enables the Quartz text rendering and smoothing introduced in Mac OS X 10.1.5 in all Carbon applications. This means antialiased text in Microsoft Internet Explorer, Mozilla, and many others. Why wait for developers to update their Carbon applications when you can get the silky smooth text everywhere, right now? And of course, Silk is completely free!
Features:
- Enables the Quartz text rendering in all running Carbon applications, such as Internet Explorer, Netscape, Mozilla and many others.
- Exclude list feature allows you to exclude certain applications so they work as before, if the antialiased text there looks bad.
- Convenient drop button in the Silk preference pane to quickly detect if a particular application is Carbon or not.
- Implemented as an easy-to-use preference pane.
Apple releases 10.1.5 update
Apple has released the MacOS X 10.1.5 update. It's now available as a 22.4M download from the Software Update preference panel.
Update 10.1.5 delivers enhancements which improve the reliability of Mac OS X applications, delivers improved networking, security, support for PC Card serial communication devices, and expanded peripheral device support. Specific improvements include:
Peripheral Device Support:
- Expanded support for new Canon digital cameras.
- Improved support for Nikon FireWire cameras.
- Expanded support for SmartDisk, EZQuest, and LaCie disc recording devices.
- Improved support for MO drives.
- Increased stability of Mail and Sherlock.
- Emails are properly retained when rebuilding the Draft mailbox.
- Support for 2D and QuickTime hardware acceleration for Rage Pro.
- Updated Carbon applications can use Quartz anti-aliasing technology for high quality text display.
- Improves networking via AFP when accessing multi-level directories on Windows NT file servers.
- Significant improvement to file searching on local and remote volumes.
- Includes a generic PC Card driver to support a variety of PC Card modems.
- Mail accounts go offline to indicate that SSL encryption settings are not supported by mail server.
- Includes the Security Update April 2002.
- More efficient iDisk mounting and file navigation.
- Added support for connecting to iDisk using default DNS settings of AirPort.
- Support for mounting a WebDAV volume from a non-standard http port.
- Significant updates to the Korean Input Method, especially important when using AppleWorks.
- Internet Connect and AirPort applications updated with Chinese and Korean localized content.