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I saw that Apple has released Safari 4 Beta

I love the way that Apple approaches design and I keep hoping upon hope that they will someday deliver a better, faster  browser instead of one that seems fast for a few things but cannot be your day to day default browser.

I think Firefox is great, fast and ugly.  I know you can skin it, etc.  You cannot turn an ugly troll like Firefox and Explorer into a princess like Safari 4 Beta.  You also cannot teach that princess (Safari 4) to walk and chew gum at the same time.

The game changer might just be Opera 10 (now in Alpha) which I will cover in a separate review.

Here are the raw browser speed test results for Firefox 3.06, Safari 4 and Internet Explorer 8:

Now just wait a second, you say, that’s not right, I thought that Firefox was the fastest!

In actually fact, it’s the fastest stable/compatible browser and today, in my humble opinion the one you want to use as your day to day default browser.

If you want a car to go really really fast, just take out all the things that weight it down, like brakes for instance!

While Safari has great speed results (especially considering how bad they were before under Safari 3) it could not even post this article.  It’s simply not compatible with major web applications like WordPress.

Explorer 8 has continuous crashes and strange bugs relating to Adobe flash.

Firefox is the worker that needs no management.  It’s the only one I update this site with.

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Opera 10 is quietly being sampled out to beta testers

Download Opera 10 Alpha

From the Opera Website:

“Note that this alpha release is not intended to show off the full feature set of Opera 10—that will be a while off. It is the first public release of the Opera Presto 2.2 rendering engine, which will be present in Opera 10, made available so you can start trying out some of the new Web technology support. ”

We love to play with shiny new toys so we downloaded Opera 10 alpha for a spin.  This is a nice browser.  Most of the compatibility problems with Opera’s famous strict standards adherence are gone.

Speed is way way up!

The classic Opera speed dial is even better.

While Opera 10 is probably, today, not a good choice for your default browser, this is absolutely worth a look. In fact, I have no bugs to report in my use and this story was just published using it.  That’s better than Apple Safari 4 with which I could not publish anything.

I will publish a speed test report comparing it to Explorer 8, Firefox 3.1, Apple Safari 4 and Google Chrome when it gets to be Opera 10 Beta instead of Alpha.

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Yahoo Search Marketing Promotion.  This deal is no deal. Where I am from it’s called fraud.

Recently I was asked to set up an online advertising campaign to promote a friends business.  I was going to set up a Google Adwords account for them, but I saw this great offer from Yahoo Search Marketing Small Business and decided that I’d set up both an Adwords account and a Yahoo Search Marketing account using this advertiser coupon / bonus / credit.

Please note the nice young lady with the sign.  Oh sure she looks friendly enough, but watch out! She bites!  Just to the right above the ’sign up’ button,  plain as day you can see the $100 credit offer.

Will you get the credit?  Absolutely not! A customer service inquiry got me the answer that the promotion was not valid and that they could only offer a $25 credit.  Other reports online say that I was lucky to receive even that.

Notice the little tiny ‘1′ on the left side of the sign up button?  Check the fine print on the  bottom of the very same page where is says $100 and you’ll see that they are going to give you “$0 credit into the account”.

So at this point, Yahoo has my friends $30 and my friend has been cheated by Yahoo.  What did I do?  I got another friend to sign up and I used a page that says it will give you $100 on the top and in the fine print.  Guess what?  They still will not deposit the credit. Having had two experiences with this on different offer pages for two different peoples accounts, I can tell you that this is a repeated pattern of criminal behavior on the part of Yahoo.  If I didn’t have two responses from their customer service reps to show, then I would not say that, but I’m calling it like it is.

Attn Yahoo: You can respond any time and tell us all exactly how sorry you are and what you are going to do to correct this for my friends and for the millions of customers out there that you are currently cheating.  Come clean and this post gets updated.  Come really clean and make good and I’ll even delete it and call it a temporary error on your part.  Until then in the interest of public safety in avoiding online scams, the post stays.

Please consider an MSN account in addition to your Adwords account.  Both companies actually follow through on their offers and the performance on MSN, although lower traffic, has been startlingly good.

This has been a Dave Williams Public Service Announcement – File under Staying Safe Online

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