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Today, I installed the latest release of Firefox 3.5 and was given the notification that the some of the extensions/plug-ins are incompatible, thats normal. But in the list “Google Gears and Google Desktop” wow! I heavily use Google Gears for my WordPress admin and also for Gmail offline use; and now i’m left in the lurch. A bit of googling and realized, I’m not the only one out their. If you are willing to install unofficial version of working Gears, LifeHacker has a beautiful article on the topic.

What was equally frustrating was looking at Safari 4. Sometime back, while in 3.x stage I installed Gears in Safari also for Wordpress Admin usage. As my primary browser Firefox was working fine, never got the chance to have a look at Safari after the mega 4.0 upgrade. Googling came across this link. Following are steps required to make Gears run in Safari 4:

1. Uninstall Gears
   1. Launch Terminal
   2. From the command prompt, enter the following:

      /Library/Internet\ Plug-Ins/Gears.plugin/Contents/Resources/uninstall.command

2. Reinstall Gears
   1. Visit http://gears.google.com/?platform=mac#
   2. Click “Install Gears”
   3. Accept the license agreement
   4. Launch “gears-osx-opt-3.dmg” once it’s downloaded
   5. Install “Google Gears.mpkg”
3. Restart Safari

For me, the only thing required was “http://gears.google.com/?platform=mac#” as previously the Gears auto-check was giving error “Your browser is not supported”. Happy to report Gears is active now.

Note: Just upgraded to Safari 4.0.2

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Very soon, more precisely in September ‘09 we all will spend time reading the N amount of not so appearant features in Apples latest Mac OS X release Snow Leopard . I thought it would be a good idea to go down the memory lane and have a look at the famous 300 new features announced with the release of Mac OS X Leopard, as honestly I’m not sure if we have fully utilized our powerhouse Mac OS X.

On Leopard release the 300 features had a very prominent page, which will now re-route you to What is Mac OS X page, part of the Snow Leopard release pages. Googling for that specific 300 feature page, I was lucky to find one on Apple’s Asia site, unfortunately without pictures. (if anyone knows of a better link, please share).
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