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Safari is easily my favorite browser for OS X. It’s clean interface, advanced rendering capabilities and quick load times make it almost painful for me to use anything else. Here are a few tricks and tips to supercharge Safari and get the most out of your browsing experience.

Here is a simple AppleScript that will allow you to search 5 popular torrent engines by keyword and open your search results in tabs.

Full-screen Cover-flow via AppleScript. Found on Mac OS X Hints dot com. Pretty bad ass.

An Apple/Adobe merger is an often discussed fantasy. I think John Gruber’s take on the matter (the first link), though, is the most solid I’ve read. I’m willing to bet that Apple even has its own Photoshop killer semi-developed, but that they’ll release it only in an emergency (for instance, if MS bought Adobe and [...]

Choosing Safari as your primary browser does come with some sacrifices, and the most prominent among which is Safari’s relative non-extensibility. Learn how to extend Safari’s power by installing SafariScript and linking AppleScripts to hotkeys.

Cyberduck, the excellent free FTP client for Mac, has been officially updated to 3.0. Link goes to the change log so have a looks at what the rubber ducky can do now. Check out Ars Technica’s first look review, too.

4 Low-cost vector design apps reviewed by TUAW. I’ve used VectorDesigner a bit and it’s powerful and pretty. DrawBerry is a free alternative and looks interesting as well.

Stop PDF files from crashing Safari by trashing the AdobePDFViewer.plugin found in /Library/Internet Plug-Ins/. I don’t open PDFs in Safari too often, but before removing this plugin, the browser invariably came crashing down whenever I did. Removing this plugin solved the problem immediately.

Lingon is a free utility to launch scripts and applications at defined system events. It’s a bit high-brow, but the linked article does a good job explaining how it all works.

Excellent apps to add to your collection, each one is among the best freeware applications available.