I primarily use Firefox at my Windows machine but in Mac i use Safari ( why? ) . But there are multiple things i dont like about Safari than Firefox. One of them is how Safari shows popup confirmations to remember passwords . Safari doesn’t let you go past the password page till you decide yes , not now or never in its confirmation popup. I dislike this. I love the way Firefox handles this. In older version of Firefox such popup were there but in latest ones its removed with a pretty good banner at top which appears till some time after you passed the password page. Safari behavior is specially annoying when you ask Safari to remember the password and it happens to be the wrong password. ( so may things so many passwords you know ). The way Google Chrome handles is the advanced one among all the browsers i have seen. Its very intelligent. 

Safari and Internet Explorer match in this case because latest version of both Browsers use similar popups where your input is a must to go to the next page.. Safari and IE friends . Seems unconvincing huh..

But today i kinda found a bug or limitation in the Expose of Mac. When i miniminse one of the open Windows and just within a second if i move my mouse to top left corner to invoke the Expose so that i can see all the windows Open . In this case i still can see the blank window space representing just minimized window . The occupying space of that window doesn’t have anything visible but when the mouse points hover over that particular space seems Expose gives information of the just minimized window and when clicked the minimized window gets focussed. 

This doesn’t happen when i move the mouse pointer to invoke Expose after a Window which i minimized has completely minimized and stayed in the Dock. May be you couldn’t visualize all the things i have explained here — The below screencast should give a clear understanding about what i am talking about here.

You can double click or right click and select New Tab on the Empty Tab bar and it opens a new tab . I didn’t know this . Today i randomly found it. 

In windows this is handled pretty well. You cant move or drag windows once they are full screen or they are taking whole screen width. 

Sometimes in Mac i accidentally click on the application window Top bar ( heading ) and move or drag it . Then it takes quite some time to get the window back to fill my screen width . I am annoyed with this specially because i have resized all my application windows to fit the screen width mainly Safari and Mail. Moreover , even if they are made movable the windows motion should have some kind of magnetic effect so that when the window edges come near to the screen edge they get auto aligned with the screen width. This would temporarily solve the problem .

Well my favorite browser is Firefox but in Mac i prefer Safari to Firefox. But i noticed a small usability low in Safari today which irritates me much these day after i actually discovered it. What happens is when i search something using the Google Search bar built in the Safari and i open a new tab i lose the search string i just used. 

Seems the Search string remains in the Google bar only to that tab and is not shared in the Safari windows over all the tabs. People may find it good because they may ask why the hell do you want to search using the same search string which you just performed search with. But in my case i do quite a lot of search modifying my search string and keeping the previous Google search result saved in an open tab . In this scenario i am not pretty happy with this behavior of Safari. And this is not the case when using Firefox .Firefox keeps the search string in Google search box saved for all the tabs until its replaced by other Search string. May be this is the reason i find it irritating in Safari because i am too used to with Firefox in my Windows machine at work

Have you ever noticed the Finder’s toolbar has some kind of mistake ( i think so ). The finder toolbar has Back/Forward button , View buttons, Quick Look, Action and a search box by default. One interesting thing i am not comfortable with is that why is the Back/Forward button labeled “Back” only . If it was to be labeled “Back” there should have been only Back Button and not the Forward button . Do you think its some kind of negligence or something which is not much thought of when designed ? .

I’m a right-clicka
I’m an iBook flippa
Macs and PCs - no fight gets bigga
Surf Safari or browse in I.E.
Better know what you rep(resent) - a Mac or PC!

USB 1-2.0, son, you don’t know
watch my data flow
From MS-DOS command line prompts
Black backgrounds, no special sauce
Well I’ve only been around since ‘84
But my ease of use has done so much more
From a Plus to a Classic to a II GS
To a PowerPC, my OS is the best
So clickable, design is lickable
My aqua interface makes XP dispicable
Quick I pull the RAM stick out the slot
Then I swap it with generic
cause the port is hot

If you see life through an LCD
Betta know your brand is it a Mac-or-PC?

Take a look at Vista
enjoy the view
I suggest Premium or the ultimate skew
cop a Dell with a graphics card - super fast
turn the aero on and lick the glass
Tiger’s fast as hell
But Leopard’s got the boom
Time machine is mad mean
you’re absurd - what’s a zune?
Middle name: innovate
All features integrate
Now stay the hell out of my developers’ conferences!
Nonsenses - I’m networking
You’re not working
Stop staring at your built-in webcam
YouTube surfing
Ha! 1,000 views is pretty fresh
ComputerGal36 even says I’m the best

He is the best with his videos
And cuts them all on his Final Cut Pro

Mac, PC, and Me, At Last

When I run IT’S A iPOD!
Talk IT’S AN iPHONE!
Stuff I gotta have no matter what
It’s an iLOAN!
I want an Intel, plus CS3,
but for now I’m streamin keynotes in bed
Listenin to Steve
Uh! Compatibility
Everybody fits with me
All the applications wanna get with my virility
At any time
Yo, it might go off
And you can ride it
Til it’s Micro-Soft
Huh! Pay attention
I got a new invention
Steal your next idea
At the MacWorld Convention
But guess what
You’ll always be behind
Cuz Mac is a state of mind

I sold my iPod touch today after using for some 2 weeks. I didn’t really like it ( lots of reasons to say ) except for its good UI and multitouch amazingness. 

Below is the proof ( Click on the image for clear and larger screenshot. )

I am back