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It's great that Apple has decided a while ago to release Safari 3 for windows. It would have been better if they would have released a native version for Linux so that web developers that use this platform as their main machine can see how the sites they build look on the mac.

Fortunately we are able to run Safari 3 on Linux using wine. Here is a step by step tutorial that will get the browser working on Ubuntu 7.10

1. install wine (follow the official instructions http://www.winehq.org/site/download-deb)
2.set wine's Windows version to Windows XP by  typing in a terminal

$winecfg

3. install windows fonts

$sudo apt-get install msttcorefonts


4. copy the core windows fonts to the wine install:

$cp /usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/{Arial,Times_New_Roman}*.ttf ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/fonts/

5. download the Safari for Windows installer (http://www.apple.com/safari/download/)

6. run the installer using wine:

$wine Safari304BetaSecUpdateSetup.exe

6.1 next
6.2 accept the license
6.3 DO NOT!! install Bonjour and the Apple Updater
 6.4 done install
6.5 create a shortcut by creating the Safari.desktop file using your favorite text editor (make sure to use your real username in the path to WINEPREFIX)

[Desktop Entry]
Name=Safari
Exec=env WINEPREFIX="/home/<your_username_here>/.wine" wine "C:\\Program Files\\Safari\\Safari.exe"
Type=Application
StartupWMClass=Wine
Icon=e2f6_safariico.0

7. All done

Today i remembered that Blizzard is working on Starcraft 2. I'm a huge starcraft fan and i wanted to check out how the development is going, and when the game will be released. As no release date is yet on site, i went to the movies page trying to download a few gameplay videos. I had a very bad surprise. You can only download the videos using blizzard's download app. They are using BitTorrent technology to spread their files via a proprietary app. Why on earth didn't they just placed a .torrent file so that Linux users could also download their content i don't really understand.

Download Blizzard movies with wine:

In a terminal open the .exe file downloaded from blizzard with wine (wine-0.9.53 on my Ubuntu 7.10 machine)

wine 1280_StarCraft2GameplayVideo_EnglishUS2-avi-downloader.exe

This will open the downloader and ask for the location where you want the file saved.


That's it.