If you have a good product that's not promoted properly, that's even worse than a bad product that is sold/advertised by people that know how and what to do. Apple's Safari entered the Windows realm not so long ago, and Apple didn't do anything special to promote it. In fact, Safari had quite a few problems on Windows, until now, but I have been using version 3.1 for a few days now, and it's a pretty solid piece of software, I must confess. Probably this is also the reason that made Apple follow Mozilla in starting to promote Safari aggressively. How? That's what we'll see right away...


When I say "Apple follows Mozilla", I think about how they managed to increase the market share of their product by paying advertisers for each Firefox download, and that's only a small part of the whole story. Firefox is a very good program, but without the efforts invested by Mozilla in pushing it higher, I am sure it wouldn't have gone so far.

Now, let's get back to Apple, shall we? Apple is not paying anyone for Safari downloads, but uses their iTunes software to promote it. Pretty smart, don't you think? "In an apparent bid to rapidly gain share of the online browser market dominated by rival Microsoft, Apple is leveraging its vast iTunes install base to recommend that Windows users also download and install the latest version of its Safari web browser," reported AppleInsider's Katie Marsal.

The idea is simple - from now on, when you'll start up the Apple Software Update program in Windows, you'll also be notified about new versions of Safari, especially if you don't have it installed yet, you'll get the following message - "Safari for Windows is the fastest and easiest-to-use web browser for the PC. It displays web pages faster than any other browser and is filled with innovative features -- all delivered in an efficient and elegant user interface."

That's not a bad idea, not bad at all, in my opinion. What do you think?

Yes, yes, I know - it's the iPhone, once again! For those already having it, this may not be a big deal, but since there are millions of tech addicts waiting for it all over the world, I am sure those in Singapore will be very pleased to hear the news I heard today, although no official source confirmed or denied the facts...


What facts? Well, unconfirmed reports say that the iPhone will be officially released in Singapore this September! Channel News Asia, a local broadcaster, claims a deal has been signed between Singapore Telecommunications, also known as SingTel, and Apple, so SingTel will be the local carrier for those buying the iPhone.

For now, no official comments have been made, but if this rumor proves to be true, the city-state of Singapore may become the first in Asia to have the iPhone on the market, ahead of China, Thailand, or even Japan!

At last, it should be noted that about 10,000 foreign iPhones have been bought by the 4,6 million people in Singapore, for over 700 USD a piece...

When last software updates were released by Apple for Mac OS X, a lot of users were unhappy by the fact that some problems were not solved, most of them related to the wireless backup process using AirPort. Fortunately, Apple listened to them, and my only guess is that these problems were not so easy to solve, but they finally released updates that bring the AirPort and Time Machine one step closer to perfection...


Now, Apple revealed quietly on its website a combo update for both Time Machine and AirPort, available only for Mac OS X 10.5.2. Unfortunately, there's no much information about it on the official page - all you can read is "This update is recommended for all users and includes compatibility improvements for using Time Machine with Time Capsule, as well as AirPort driver fixes," as well as a short description of Time Machine and AirPort.

Well, I guess if you need it, you have to grab it, and the official page I mentioned above is located here, but if you don't want to waste any second, you can simply grab the update file, weighing 10.4MB, by clicking on this link.

A few months ago, mobile searches originating on Apple's iPhone made Google check the system to see if everything is all right, because the statistics shown an incredible lead over other mobile phones used to access the search engine. That was some time ago, but it seems more and more people are using the iPhone and iPod touch to surf the web, and the latest reports look excellent for Apple, and not so encouraging for other manufacturers, as we're going to see right away...


Unfortunately, these last statistics from StatCounter only show iPhone's usage on the Web by American users, but since the iPhone sold most units there, I guess it's also the most relevant result to get for it. Between December and March, the iPhone and iPod touch were used on the Web 64 percent more frequently than before, bringing the figures up to 0.23 percent of all surfers, from only 0.14 percent!

I know, I know - we're talking about a tiny percentage, but think about the fact that these figures are way higher than those showing the usage of smart Nokia phones on the Web, for example.

Anyway, Nokia gets its revenge on the global statistics, where Nokia mobiles lead with 0.25 to 0.08, but since Apple's iPhone and iPod touch didn't manage to become really popular all over the world yet, I think the results in US can become reality all over the world in the long run.

After licensing Flash Reader and Flash Lite to Microsoft, it seems Adobe has big plans with their Flash technology, especially since a lot of people expected to see it arriving on the iPhone, but there were only rumors about this so far, and most of them claimed the iPhone won't get Flash support anytime soon. Well, fortunately, the reality is a bit different...


During a conference call with investment experts, Adobe's chief Shantanu Narayen said they are currently developing their own Flash client for the iPhone, and this didn't happen before because they are using the iPhone SDK to help their efforts, and the SDK just became available. The intention is to use the App Store to release a version of the plugin as soon as it's done, but the question remaining is "When?"

Unfortunately, there's no answer to that yet, so I guess we should wait for a while, especially since Apple's limitations(third-party software can't run on the background on the iPhone) force the iPhone Flash "plugin" to be a standalone application...