Apple release Safari Beta for Windows

In a move to further Apple's brand on PCs, they announced yesterday that the new Safari 3 beta version is to be made available for Windows users. In a statement, Steve Jobs said:

"We think Windows users are going to be really impressed when they see how fast and intuitive Web browsing can be with Safari. Hundreds of millions of Windows users already use iTunes, and we look forward to turning them on to Safari's superior browsing experience too." Source

I believe that the new version of Safari will convert some Firefox users, and hopefully in time – IE users. For Apple, it is yet another demonstration of Apple furthering their brand to the average Microsoft user.

Without the iPod, Apple may well be now dead or nearly so. 

So far, the iPod has been hugely successful at making young people aware of Apple, and the style they bring. The Safari GUI being a more mature version of the iPod's design will inevitably draw the iWhores in.

ProBlogging

I'm curretly in a special IT lecture called ProBlogging that the University of Reading is putting on after the end of exams, run by Mike Evans. We are to start a new blog of a high quality and with focused articles with a mind to optimising the content and eventually making a mint with Google Adsense.

I heard about the course early on in the year, as Mike was heavily gloating at the fact that he makes enough money to retire on. He showed his Google Adwords earnings gleefully to the open day students we were showing round. It was so funny to see all the eyebrows in the room raise as the seemingly timid lecturer demonstrated that you can earn a hell of a lot of money.

Being a poor student, I plan to create a seperate ProBlog with my Uni friend Ruben, and report back on here to how it's going.