Well, Apple, you should’ve seen it coming. With the tremendous amount of hype that the iPhone received, you should’ve expected hackers to go full throttle on exploiting their $600 toys. Thankfully, for now, it’s only researchers that are pumping out the exploits.

Everyone always gets flustered when they get hear that the “Feds” might be spying on them via their cellular communication devices. But how would you feel if you knew that some guy who lives in Nigeria was listening to your phone calls, reading your email, viewing your SMS logs, and looking over the phone numbers of your friends(if you have any, of course). I don’t know about you, but those thoughts aren’t very comforting. But if Apple doesn’t hurry up, it could become a reality. Via an exploit in the Safari browser(used on the iPhone, and available to PC and Mac owners), researchers at Independent Security Evaluators have been able to do all of those wonderful invasions of privacy.

This exploit can be taken advantage of with malicious code (which obviously has not been released) in web pages that you may be visiting. Thus, for the time being, it would be a good idea to only visit sites that you trust(like Clazh), unless you want your own miniature Paris Hilton scandal. Thankfully, you won’t have to wait TOO long for a patch, because Apple has proposed a fix that will be coming at the BlackHat conference on August 2nd. Only 10 more days until the Apple-faithful can go back to touting the complete safety that is provided from their true love.

A video of the exploit can be found here.

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Catergories: Apple, General Tags: General, Safari, Security

Not only is Safari a much better browsers in terms of support for Web standards, it is also a light and fast browser. The only competitor to safari when it comes to speed and execution is the Opera browser. According to Apple safari is

1. Blazing Performance
2. Elegant User Interface
3. Easy Bookmarks
4. Pop-up Blocking
5. Inline Find
6. Tabbed Browsing
7. SnapBack
8. Forms AutoFill
9. Built-in RSS
10. Resizable Text Fields
11. Private Browsing
12. Security

Application Startup Time (lower is better) According to Apple.

JavaScript Performance (lower is better) According to Apple.

Html Performance (lower is better) According to Apple.

While most of this seems like marketing there are a few things which are better on the Safari browser than any other browsers. I just downloaded the first thing I noticed was that it was significantly faster than IE and FireFox but to be fair to FireFox I had a number of extensions loaded up. The Next thing I noticed was that the text was crystal clear and used some sort of smoothening technique to make it looks crisp and sharp similar to ClearType Fonts Program for Windows XP I guess this wont be a issue in Vista since ClearType is inbuilt. While a few users faced some difficulties while installing and running Safari just remember its currently still a beta. My site looks way better on Safari than IE or FireFox. On the whole I am pretty impressed with the browser and no more trying to see how my Website looks like in Safari. I will still be sticking to FireFox, I can’t live without the extensions.

Thanks to techbharat

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Catergories: Apple, Design, Software Tags: Download, Safari