Apple Opens Safari Extensions Gallery

Apple today launched the Safari Extensions Gallery:

Extensions are a great way for you to add new features to Safari 5.0.1.

Most of my favorites aren’t available yet, but can still install if you enable enable developer mode. My top extensions:

• AdBlock for Safari

• NoMoreiTune

  NoMoreiTunes is an extension for Safari 5 which disables the script that tries to start iTunes when you visit a link to the iTunes Store.

• EmailTabURLs

  This extension adds a toolbar button and contextual menu items to Safari. Selecting one composes an email containing the URLs of all open tabs in all windows, or the active window

• SafariRestore

  Automatically restore your previous or saved browsing session, for best results, set Safari to open new windows with an Empty page.

• Gentle Status Bar

  Gentle Status Bar is a lot like Chrome’s status bar, but has been styled to match Safari and the standard bar’s behavior when modifier keys are pressed.

Apple Reports Third Quarter Results

All-Time Record Revenue:

Apple sold 3.47 million Macs during the quarter, representing a new quarterly record and a 33 percent unit increase over the year-ago quarter. The Company sold 8.4 million iPhones in the quarter, representing 61 percent unit growth over the year-ago quarter. Apple sold 9.41 million iPods during the quarter, representing an eight percent unit decline from the year-ago quarter. The Company began selling iPads during the quarter, with total sales of 3.27 million.

Even without a full quarter, the sold almost as many iPads as Macs. I do hope they keep selling trucks for a while longer.

John Gruber's iPhone 4 Review

Daring Fireball review of iPhone 4:

The overall build quality seems impossibly good. The iPhone 4 is beautiful to behold and feels like a valuable artifact. It’s like a love letter to Dieter Rams.

If you want the inside Steve Jobs head review, this is it.

Also, take a look at Andy Ihnatko’s review, for the most thorough one.

Enable Safari 5 Extensions

Should have pointed this out before:

Enable Safari’s developer menu. (Preferences → Advanced → Show developer menu) Then enable extensions. (Develop → Enable Extensions)

/via Hacker News

Apple Worldwide Developers Conference 2010

Dustin Curtis said it best:

The roundup:

Update: One of my favorite tech writers, Andy Ihnatko, is also going to try a Keynote Liveblog. The blog will probably crash, but if you want news with really smart commentaries, look no further.

• Ars Technica Moscone photos and rumor roundup
• My three favorite places to follow it:
  • Engadget
  • MacRumors.com
  • gdgt live
• Gizmodo was not given press passes. Serves them right.

Really excited about the new iPhone, Safari 5, and Xcode 4, but you never know what else might come up.

Apple Reveals New Service for Authors to Sell Their Books Directly in the iBookstore

David W. Martin, in Mac|Life:

Apple sent us an e-mail today with details on how someone could sign up to sell their own books in the iBookstore. Their books would have to adhere to these criteria: each one would need to have a 13-digit ISBN, be in ePub format, validate against epubcheck 1.0.5, and contain no unmanifested files

There’s a few other conditions, but with iPhone OS 4 including iBooks, seems like a very easy way to tap into a huge market.