Apple has released a new version of the Safari web browser, but this one works on Windows. That’s right – Safari is still free to download and no longer just for Macs. There may even be a Linux version in the near future. Plus, this new version of Safari is sleek and smaller than before, and it supports all the latest web technologies like HTML 5 and CSS 3, and it allows you to use web applications like Gmail and Google Docs — offline.

Ajax and javascript can really improve the look and feel of your web site, but unless you’re a javascript programmer, that doesn’t help you very much. The Six Revisions blog for web development and design has links to ten cool scripts – all free – that you can install yourself to spice up your site. The list includes a free site tour creator and one called Image Flow that lets your visitors scroll through a group of images, just like an iPod.

Yahoo brought out a new three year plan to grow their revenue by 73 percent. Most of the projection involves beefing up key components like the click thru rates in search, display and video ads. These projections seem a bit optimistic juxtaposed against their current financial woes, but we’ll see.

Adobe announced that with Apple’s release of the iPhone Software Developers Kit, they can start making a version of Flash that will work on the iPhone. Until now, lack of Flash support on the iPhone has meant a weaker web browsing experience for iPhone users who could not access anything created in Flash — like half the internet.

Backed by Hummer Winblad, Slide Rocket is taking the functionality of Power Point to the internet, and even improving upon its features. Right now, the program is in private beta, and getting impressive reviews. When it is released later this year there will be a free version and two paid versions, giving you yet another way to create slick web based presentations.