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Orbitz profiles Mac users with pricier hotels, here's how to block

by Michael Rose (Jun 26th, 2012)

Let's try a little Gedankenexperiment here. Imagine that you sell widgets of all kinds; some are drab and functional but cheap, while others are shiny and a bit more expensive. You're looking to improve the sales of your shiny, high-margin widgets by getting them in front of the type of consumers ...

Safari tip: Force HTML5 video to open instead of Flash

by Sam Abuelsamid (Nov 22nd, 2010)

As more people get fed up with the poor performance and security flaws of Adobe's Flash Player, they are uninstalling the Flash plug-in from their computers. The problem is that even if a site offers up HTML5 video as an alternative to Flash, trying to get to it from Safari on a Mac will pop up the ...

Firefox 3 and MobileMe not working? It might be Ubiquity plugin

by Robert Palmer (Jan 27th, 2009)

While this might not be news for everyone, reader Brad and I seemed to be having the same problem: Using Firefox 3, we would see the "unsupported browser" message pictured while trying to use me.com. Obviously, Firefox 3 is a supported browser for MobileMe. A TUAW colleague gave it a try and found ...