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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.

Steve Jobs to Kick Off Apple’s WDC 2010 with Keynote Address on Monday, June 7 →

On June 7, you have an appointment with a couple of Apple liveblogging sites.

Although only new iPhone’s and software is expected, it’s good practice to hold-off any Apple related purchases until then.

Doc Searls on Steve Jobs →

Doc Searls, from September 4, 1997:

Now Steve is back, and gradually renovating his old company. He’ll do it his way, and it will once again express his Art.

These things I can guarantee about whatever Apple makes from this point forward:

• It will be original.
• It will be innovative.
• It will be exclusive.
• It will be expensive.
• It’s aesthetics will be impeccable.
• The influence of developers, even influential developers like you, will be minimal. The influence of customers and users will be held in even higher contempt.
• The influence of fellow business artisans such as Larry Ellison (and even Larry’s nemesis, Bill Gates) will be significant, though secondary at best to Steve’s own muse.

Take into account this was written almost a full year before the original Bondi Blue iMac was released.

Amazing how this is still relevant a decade later, in the context of the iPad.

/via Hacker News