General Help for Mac OS X Users

Ultimate Experience for Mac OS X Users

For a whole new fully immersive experience beyond just the new font and built in audio, use Firefox 4.0 (or Firefox 4.0 optimized for Yahoo), Firefox with Bing, Seamonkey 2.1, Google Chrome 5.0 (stable channel version), SRWare Iron 5.0 (stable channel version), Safari 5.0, OmniWeb 5.11, or iCab 4.8. The latest browsers will provide  stunning visual effects involving high impact graphics shapes, light and shadow, and conditional formatting tricks, like: angled rounded corners on images, headings, quotes pages, and select paragraphs; image, page, quote rotation; text drop shadows on headings; drop shadows on images, quotes, select paragraphs; stylized drop caps for quotes; alternating colors for featured links; featured links going to a different website, going to another one of my websites, and on the same page marked as such; featured links to zip files marked as such; faded featured previously visited links; and background gradients. This is all done without any plugins (including Flash Player), without any additional graphics or slower download times, it keeps the website just as accessible as before, and only needs to be edited in one place to change or update the entire website.

Firefox 3.6 users will not be able, to read my website, so I recommend users stick, with Firefox 3.5, or upgrade, to Firefox 4.0. Safari 4 users will see a broken looking version, of my website, so I recommend upgrading, to Safari 4.1, or higher.

New Font and Built in Audio for Mac OS X Users

Also, if you are using Firefox 3.5, SeaMonkey 2.0, Google Chrome 5.0 (stable channel version), SRWare Iron 5.0 (stable channel version), Safari 4.0, OmniWeb 5.10, or iCab 4.6, then you can see my website with the new font (which will work without any installation necessary).

Unfortunately you see that different browsers support different audio formats, which makes things more complicated, than necessary. This will likely not change, because of licensing fees and fears of being sued for using someone's unknown patents and these issues will not be resolved for many years, if ever. I have made listening to my songs and readings on my website simpler and less technical, for my visitors, by setting up my audio, to auto detect the correct version, for your web browser. If you use one of the above browser listed versions or higher, the audio on my website will automatically determine the correct file format, that works best, with your web browser.

If you are using older versions of one of these browsers listed above or any other browsers, you will have a basic or minimal experience on my website. I recommend selecting the simple format of my main website.

Special Instructions for Mac OS X Users

Mac OS X users won't need Flash Player for this website. If you have Flash Player installed for another browser for another website, it will work fine on my website too, but you will get better performance disabling it or all plugins, when browsing my website.

For Internet Explorer 6-8 only sites, just ignore them as the main purpose is generally to put spyware and viruses on your computer. You are lucky you don't have to use Internet Explorer 6-8.

There is a bug in webkit on Mac OS X that affects Safari, Omniweb, iCab, and probably any other Mac browser that uses webkit that causes my interactive Flash widgets to fail to work with my standard stylesheets. There are 2 work-arounds: either disable all plugins in Safari, so you see the Javascript version or choose the simple stylesheet. This will not affect the Apple iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad as they don't have Flash Player for them. This issue does not affect Firefox, Google Chrome, or Opera. This bug is now fixed with Flash Player 10.1. If you upgrade to Flash Player 10.1, then no workarounds are needed. I have only tested this Flash Player fix with Safari 5.