LORD OF THE COWS SAFARI NEWS

From 2003 to the end of 2005 Gordon Byrnes intermittently posted information / fixes about the Safari browser platform. The site went dark for many years. Sometime in 2016 a new owner? revived the site and it became active again for a very short period.
In 2018 another new owner acquired the domain choosing to show the two previous iterations of the site as an example of how site's change owners. Sometimes the new owners deviate 180 degrees from the original site, other times the new iteration adheres more closely to the original intent.
This site is an example of the later, if only for a brief moment.

As the third owner of this domain I would just like to say that I found this domain while staying in what I think was the best Lahaina rentals unit one could possibly hope for. One of my friend's parents own this high upper floor condo at the Lahaina Shores Beach Resort. Lahaina Shores offers a truly Hawaiian experience, with its plantation-era architecture and charming decor. Next door is 505 Front Street, a popular outdoor center filled with some of Maui's top restaurants, luaus, boutique shops, art galleries, convenience store, live entertainment, and more. I was there with my friends to surf and snorkel away our spring vacation. Lahaina was cool with lots of night life. We had a blast.

One evening when I just wanted to relax and not go out bar hopping, I decidedI would go to my favorite online casino, Miami Club which offers slots for US players as well as a variety of other casino games. One of my buddies said he had heard that Hawaii is one of the most anti-gambling states in the United States. You won’t find any casinos, poker rooms, horse or dog races, sports betting, or daily fantasy sports (DFS) in the state and there’s also no legal lottery. Bummer. Someone else pipped up, but there is social gaming at the hotels, bars, and nightclubs. BUT, you can’t win money playing games at these social casinos. Bummer. I guess I could play demo slot games at Miami Club Casino. Demos with their play money allows you to make maximum bets and when you run out of money you can just start over again. Of course when you win big, you can't collect any real money. But it gets boring after awhile. Instead, I ended up watching Croupier on Netflix. Clive Owens is terrific in this 1998 film.

A few days later I got an email from my geek friend, Adam, who said I needed to check out this domain that was up for sale. "You're going to love its name!" Intrigued with his email I looked the site up. Lord of the Cows! I loved it. Had to have it. Asked my dad who buys domains in the competitive mad scramble of domain drops, if he could try to get it. Eureka, success. While I am deciding what to do with this little baby, I am just using it as an example for a paper I am writing for a class on web design and the art of repurposing old websites (with crazy names)!

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Content is from 2003 - 2005 and 2016 archived pages.

Lord of the Cows 2016 Iteration

LORD OF THE COWS SAFARI NEWS

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  SAFARI FOR MAC – WHY IS IT THE BEST BROWSER OF APPLE DEVICES?

  BYADMIN / MARCH 24, 2016

  Electronic Imaging spent August 7 at Safari Macworld in Boston. We were among the tens of thousands of Safari Mac devotees excitedly shuffling among the more than 300 vendors spread across town at two convention centers.

  We gasped a few …

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  HOW ISDN AND ADSL CHANGED TELECOMMUNICATIONS

  BY ADMIN / MARCH 24, 2016 

  Moving a file from one system to another has become a relatively simple operation in today’s imaging workplace. The incompatibilities once prevalent between Macs and PCs no longer exist to any significant degree. Large graphic files can be quickly transferred …

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  RAM PRICES IN 90S

  BY ADMIN / MARCH 24, 2016 

  I received my first computer as a Christmas gift in 1980. It was a Tandy TRS-80 Color computer, and it boasted 16KB RAM. My father and I spent one Saturday afternoon installing a RAM upgrade that gave the then state-of-the-art …

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  COLOR THEORY AND CONSISTENCY ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB

  BY ADMIN / MARCH 24, 2016 

  Creating graphics for the World Wide Web is a very tricky process. Although designers use graphics to enhance their Web sites, many don’t realize that there are numerous issues that affect how their graphics will be seen. In the next …

Lord of the Cows 2003 - 2005 Iteration

POSTS 2003 - 2005

November 19, 2005

Safari Enhancer Updated

Safari Enhancer 3.0.2 has been released. Changes are as follows:

• Important Safety Improvement: Enhancer can no longer disable copies of Safari if run on incompatible versions. This means you can safely test Enhancer with new releases of Safari without waiting for an update. If Safari stops working, the "Restore Settings to Defaults" button in Enhancer will now restore Safari entirely to its pre-Enhancer state, regardless of the version.
• Enhancer file size reduced by 60%.
• French localisation updated.

Posted by Gordon at 

October 30, 2005

Safari Enhancer 3.0 Released

Safari Enhancer 3.0 has been released. Changes are as follows:

• Features separated into those effecting the entire system and those effecting only the current user. Most features no longer require administrator privileges.
• New Feature: Set the number of days Safari will remember history for.
• New Feature: Choose whether to print a page's background image when printing.
• New Feature: Choose whether to display a link's URL in a tooltip.
• New Feature: Permanently change what browser Safari identifies to websites as.
• NOTE: French localisation is incomplete. It will be updated soon.

Posted by Gordon

September 17, 2005

Safari Enhancer Updated

Safari Enhancer has been updated to version 2.6.4. This version includes changes to improve the functionality of the cache modification options.

Posted by Gordon

August 03, 2005

Changes

I will be leaving very shortly for Germany's capital city, where I will be for the next month. After that I will be moving into dorms at EOUfor the Fall semester. The crux of this is that Safari Enhancer support and updates will be pretty curtailed for at least the next couple months as I get settled. Anyway, bye for now.

Posted by Gordon

July 18, 2005

Localisations Found

I have found German and Chinese translators for future versions of Enhancer. Thanks to everyone that offered their help.

Posted by Gordon

July 08, 2005

New Localisers Needed

I am currently searching for new German and Chinese translators for Safari Enhancer.

Fluency in both English and the language you're translating to is a must. You will be periodically asked to update localisations to Enhancer when new versions are released. The changes between versions are generally small. Turnaround time for most localisation requests should be under a week. You will also need to install the OS X Developer Tools (free).

This is strictly a volunteer position (your name will appear in Enhancer's "about" box, and I'm happy to write glowing references should you request one for job-seeking and such).

Anyone who is interested should email me at gordon@lordofthecows.com
- Thanks

Posted by Gordon

May 24, 2005

Safari Enhancer Updated to 2.6.1

Safari Enhancer 2.6.1 has been released. This version fixes several bugs related to caches from the last version.

Posted by Gordon

May 23, 2005

Safari Enhancer 2.6 Released

Safari Enhancer 2.6, with full support for OS 10.4 Tiger and Safari 2.0/RSS has been released.

Complete changes as follows:

• Safari Enhancer is now compatible with Safari 2.0/OS 10.4.
• Enhancer is no longer compatible with anything prior to OS 10.4.
• Various changes to the interface.
• Icon cache can now be permanently disabled.
• Google Brasil and SearchPlay search engine support added.
• Minimum font size setting removed (redundant, available under "Advanced" in Safari's preferences).
• Enhancer can now be run from a non-administrator account.


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Enhancer 2.6 will not show up in Enhancer's auto-update system, as Panther users can't upgrade, and Tiger users can't even launch older versions.

Panther and Jaguar versions of Enhancer will continue to be available.

March 07, 2005

New Safari Enhancer Release

Safari Enhancer has been updated to version 2.5.3. The main reason for this update is to fix the Adobe PDF Plugin glitch in Enhancer.

Everyone who has used a previous version of Enhancer on Safari 1.2.1 through 1.2.4 should download this patching programme, and run the installer appropriate to their exact Safari version. This will fix the PDF display problem, and potential problems with future plugins.

Reinstalling Safari will also have the same effect.
Important:
Do not run this new version of Enhancer until you have run the patching programme or reinstalled Safari. Doing so may actually compound the problem, due to Enhancer's safety-backup system, which may attempt to restore the glitch to your copy of Safari if it was there when the new version was first run.
If you're wishing you had read this before doing what it just said not to do, don't panic. Just delete Safari Enhancer's support directory in /Users/you/Library/Application Support/Safari Enhancer/ , run the patch programme, and you should be good to go.

Posted by Gordon

May 29, 2004

Absence

Well, it's been quite awhile since I posted anything here. I do have lots to say, but not right now, as I'm going to Europe for a month, without internet access. I will return on July 1st. No updates or email responses are likely to materialise while I'm gone.

January 10, 2004

Away

I will be in Washington DC until January 19th, giving a presentation for the National Student Symposium on Ocean issues. I won't be responding to email until I return.

Best,
Gordon

Posted by Gordon

January 02, 2004

For sale: 256MB USB Flash Drive

I'm selling my old 256MB USB flash drive. It's in great shape, and the "Buy it now" price on ebay is about $40 less than you'd pay for a new USB flash drive of the same size.

Posted by Gordon

November 18, 2003

Theming Evolved

Unsanity has just released ShapeShifter.

ShapeShifter represents the first truly safe theming solution for OS X. No system files are modified. Instead, ShapeShifter just points applications to an alternate location to load interface files. This means you can now use different themes for different users, and there is no chance of screwing up your system with a bad theme.

There should be no future need for theme-protection applications like AquaFix now. Kudos to Unsanity for yet another great product.

Posted by Gordon

October 26, 2003

Safari Enhancer for Panther

Safari Enhancer version 2.0.7b1 is available for download now. Changes are as follows:

• Panther Compatible
• French localisation updated.
• Much better error checking. Safari Enhancer will now automatically try to repair problems with Safari when applying changes.
• Major code cleanup.
• Assorted bug fixes.

This is my first crack at Panther compatibility. Most everything should work fine, with the notable exception of the minimum font size feature. Changes to webkit in Panther seem to have crippled the functionality of the minimum font size settings. They work on some pages (this page, for example, but not here. I haven't been able to figure out a pattern yet. This feature in all its glory may be permanently lost. I strongly recommend using the bug reporting feature to complain to Apple about the exclusion of a minimum font size feature from the browser, and also to go submit feedback to David Hyatt, who actually works on the browser.

Safari Enhancer 2.0.7b1 is not compatible with Jaguar. If you're using Jaguar, grab version 2.0.6.1. This version has the same changes as 2.0.7b1, excluding Panther support.

Enjoy,
Gordon

Posted by Gordon

October 04, 2003

Perl Gurus Wanted

I have a little challenge for anyone fairly skilled with Perl.

I need several perl scripts that do the following tasks:

- Convert Mozilla/Netscape format HTML bookmarks into Safari-friendly property list bookmarks.

- Convert Camino format XML bookmarks to Safari-friendly property list.

- Convert Omniweb format HTML bookmarks to Safari property list.

- Convert iCab HTML bookmarks to Safari property list.

Additionally, for any of these scripts, the new bookmarks would have to be added to the existing Safari bookmarks plist, not simply made into a new one without Safari's already existing bookmarks.

If anyone can supply me with one or all of these scripts, I'd be extremely grateful.

Posted by Gordon

September 24, 2003