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Thoughts on switching from Chrome to Safari 5.2 [updated]

June 20, 2012June 23, 2012Aaron B. RussellLeave a Comment

I’ve used Google Chrome almost exclusively as my main browser since 2009, but after seeing Apple’s WWDC keynote last week I decided to give Safari another try, because being able to send a tab from one device to another (without using Pastebot to just copy/paste the URL across devices), is one of my most-wanted features. […]

Safari skews web stats

February 22, 2011Aaron B. Russell1 Comment

Here’s an interesting thing to consider next time you’re looking through your web stats: the popularity of Safari 4 and later (the desktop version, not the iOS one) probably looks way higher than it actually is. Safari’s “Top Sites” feature checks sites to see if any content has changed since you were last there (and […]

YouTube vs Viacom: things get ridiculous

March 23, 2010Aaron B. RussellLeave a Comment

It seems that things have progressed into the ridiculous in the YouTube vs Viacom spat: For years, Viacom continuously and secretly uploaded its content to YouTube, even while publicly complaining about its presence there. It hired no fewer than 18 different marketing agencies to upload its content to the site. It deliberately “roughed up” the […]