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Filed under: Software Update, Bad Apple

Apple changes Software Update GUI for Windows

Last month, Apple pushed Safari 3.1 out to Windows users via an iTunes update with ambiguous language and installation options. The response was not pretty. Like many other users, I was bothered by the practice (and made it clear during that week's talkcast) and hoped Apple would do a better job to differentiate between updates and new or additional software in the future.

Well, it appears that Apple has listened to the feedback an adjusted the way Software Update notifies Windows users or new software. Now, instead of just showing optional software in the same column as updates, Apple has added a seconded column labeled "New Software" (see below).


The updated Apple Software Update Screen

Note that the software is still automatically checked (boo!), but this is much, much better than the previous method.

Filed under: Odds and ends, Internet Tools

Safari brings "colour-managed viewing" to Windows

Apparently some design and photo types are psyched about Safari for Windows, because (in the words of Rob Galbraith) it "makes practical the colour-managed viewing of photos within a Windows web browser for the first time." It seems that Safari is the first Windows browser able to "properly [display] pictures with embedded ICC profiles" natively. John Nack at Adobe explains a little about what this means, and includes a nice screenshot comparing Safari to Firefox. This is significant both for ensuring that the photos whose colors you carefully tweaked in Photoshop are displayed properly online, and also for getting good prints from online photo services.

[via Daring Fireball]

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