Extensions Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Safari extensions gallery, Safari 5.0.1 available

by Dave Caolo (Jul 28th, 2010)

That wasn't a very long wait. Apple has finally published the Safari extensions gallery we've been anticipating for a few weeks. There's a large number of extensions available right off the bat, including some from The New York Times, Major League Baseball, Amazon and Bing. There's also an ...

Ostrich: A Twitter extension for Safari

by Dave Caolo (Jul 26th, 2010)

Oh, the ever-growing mountain of Twitter apps. Not since the Cola Wars has such a fierce battle for commercial dominance been waged. Today's combatant is unique in that it's a Safari 5 extension. It's young, and with a little work could be quite nice. Ostrich is an extension for Safari 5 that ...

Apple collecting Safari extensions for gallery

by Dave Caolo (Jul 14th, 2010)

A marquee feature of Safari 5 is its ability to use 3rd-party extensions. Apple is collecting examples of great ones from registered developers to be featured in a gallery. There's no word on Apple's judging criteria or when the gallery will be launched, but Apple is really pushing this technology ...

Mac 101: taming Safari toolbars with shortcut keys

by Brett Terpstra (Jun 21st, 2010)

As you've probably noticed, there are suddenly a lot of Safari Extensions floating around, thanks to the new features in Safari 5. PimpMySafari is ramping back up, and the Safari Extensions Tumblog is doing a great job of keeping track of all of them. I'm going to wait until the dust settles, the ...

Macworld 2010: TypeDNA

by Brett Terpstra (Feb 13th, 2010)

On the last day of Macworld, I caught up with the guys from TypeDNA to take a look at what I soon realized was going to be a revolutionary bit of software magic for designers of any ilk. TypeDNA is a series of plugins for Adobe CS4 applications (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator) which makes finding ...

Google Chrome for Mac (finally) gets Extension support

by Brett Terpstra (Jan 8th, 2010)

Exciting news for Mac-using Chrome lovers: the latest dev-channel build of Google Chrome (finally) includes support for extensions, among other new features. Similar to Firefox Add-ons, Chrome Extensions allow 3rd-party developers to add new functionality to the browser. There's a decent collection ...

On the Firefox 2.0 beta, extensions and compatibility

by David Chartier (Sep 1st, 2006)

If you want to play with the Firefox betas, but don't want to break your existing extensions, there is an add-on available that can bring your existing extensions along for the 2.0 beta ride. Nightly Tester Tools is an add-on (extensions are being rebranded as 'add-ons' in the new Firefox) that ...