topsites://

An address you can visit to see your Top Sites in Safari 4.

Louis CK on Conan.

-It’s fast.  It’s really, really fast.  This is the most important thing.

- New tab bar is different. Makes sense, but will take getting used to.

- MobileSafari-style stop/reload buttons.

- Search bar uses Google Suggest and includes search terms found on the page.

- Top Sites is great.

- CoverFlow is great.

- New Location bar dropdown is interesting. Not quite the mess of ugly that is Firefox’s “AwesomeBar.” I, for one, and glad it only completes URLs and not title tags.

- They renamed the SquirrelFish Extreme JS engine to the more public friendly “Nitro” engine. Chickens.

Update:  WebKit developer Mark Rowe confirms in a posting to the webkit-dev mailing list:

Nitro is Apple’s marketing name for WebKit’s JavaScript engine, code-named SquirrelFish Extreme.  There are no difference between them as the names both refer to the same thing.

Old news by now, but God I love The Onion.

I bought Rowmote last night and it’s just great. For .99 you get a remote control for iTunes, QuickTime, VLC, Front Row, Boxee, DVD Player, Keynote, Powerpoint, and more. You have to run the tiny Rowmote Helper on your Mac, but it’s light and simple with no messy installer.

Rowmote (iTunes link)

http://github.com/rentzsch/clicktoflash/tree/master

A true Safari plugin, not an InputManager hack. Formerly abandoned then adopted by Rentzsch. Couldn’t surf without it now that I’m used to it.

The most telling fact about this is that while Apple grabbed former Target executive Ron Johnson to be their retail chief, Microsoft’s retail chief David Porter comes from Wal-Mart. As Gruber put it, “Target stores are nice. Wal-Mart stores are hellholes.”

http://fstools.macosforge.org/trac/wiki

The Filesystem Tools project is a place where the Apple filesystem teams will be publishing some of the tools we use to test the filesystems that are part of Mac OS X. These tools will be useful to developers who are writing new Mac OS X filesystems, or testing Mac OS X network filesystems against their servers.