I admit, I should have written this article from good will and to praise Apple for their work on Safari 4, but alas it didn’t happen, until now.
Safari just crashed on me, the best thing about it, it doesn’t even seem to know that it crashed and it won’t save any tabs or windows you had open, no sir!
I think Apple is probably relying on the awesome History feature in the browser. Don’t get me wrong, I cannot emphasis how useful the new History feature is in Safari 4, but perhaps, just perhaps it’s not enough of a backup to recover from. For instance, although I can go back in history and see what web pages I have opened, problem occurs if you opened a few tabs and windows a long time ago and just never got to reading them. In this use case, to use the history to recover is, well, not doable especially since you might not even know what those other tabs and windows contained. Anyway, I should probably stop ranting now!
It’s unfortunate that we prefer to complain about something more than praise them. This post would have been much better if I wasn’t a little ticked off!
On an unrelated note, WordPress rocks! Go WordPress.
As I was thinking of going to bed, I thought I should write a post here, but didn’t know what to talk about, so I closed the lid of my laptop and after it went to sleep, I put it in my backpack to have it ready for tomorrow.
Then I thought, hmm…maybe I should backup my data using Time Machine, it seems really simple and I do have a handy external hard disk. I had read somewhere (or come to think of it, it was an Apple video) that on the first run, it’ll take some time to back-up everything, so I thought I’ll remove the battery and just use AC until the morning. One minor mistake was that I took the battery out before plugging it in. As I plugged it in, I noticed the sleep indicator was not blinking, and then it hit me! I thought I had lost the work I was doing, the programs that were open and just lost track of what I was doing in general. You see, one thing I love about the laptop is that in the middle of any work I can just close the lid, pick it up and then continue later exactly where I left off. It’s brilliant that way, but it needs the battery–or so I thought. So, now I thought I’d lost my reading place, if you will.
I plugged the laptop in, pressed the power button, and …wait, what’s this I see…wait a sec, it’s the Dashboard which I left open with my to-do list! I was ecstatic to see that! It hadn’t lost a thing! Wow! الْحَمْدُ للّهِ (btw, that means Praise be To God in Arabic)! Amazing.
P.S.: You should know that the laptop I’m talking about is my new macbook (exactly a week old) and yup, you guessed it, it was Designed by Apple in California 
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Update:
I forgot to mention what happened with my backup. Nothing, it turns out I need to check what in my external hard disk before I format. We’ll leave that for another day.
