Archive for January, 2007
January 13, 2007 at 2:30 pm · Filed under General
If they release the iPhone, they need to have a battery replacement system. This is a deal killer for me. Batteries wear out, and if I’m going to buy an iPhone, I might have it for 3 years before upgrading. Note, I don’t care if it is done at an Apple store. It just needs to be fast. For those who aren’t near an Apple store, it might be a smart thing to make this a self-service option. An iPod is not essential, but a cell phone is.
If Apple wants to sell me a laptop, they need to split the big button into two buttons. Chording isn’t going to cut it.
Finally, I was listening to some mp3s in iTunes and as I was cleaning out my library, I noticed that there wasn’t an option to change the playspeed. I think this is essential for podcasts. Quite often, people just talk way to slow.
January 12, 2007 at 9:38 am · Filed under General
The Wall Street Journal front page has this to say about the recent “surge”:
Bush aides met outrage in pushing an Iraq “surge” on Capitol Hill.
Rice was told by Republican Sen. Hagel that the president’s decision to send more troops at this juncture is the worst foreign policy blunder since Vietnam, and other Foreign Relations panel criticisms were just as pungent.
January 2, 2007 at 2:45 am · Filed under General
hey, while I’m on the topic, here are a few quick tweaks that you can use on the User agent.
Chris Pederick of the Web Developer Toolbar fame, has built another
extension. In his usual naming style, it is called User Agent Switcher.
He always makes it easy to guess what the extension does.
There are also other pages out on the net that instruct you on how to change your user agent to be the same as the GoogleBot agent. This allows you to get into cloaked sites. Very handy thing to have available.
While we’re on the topic, I should also mention a great site for detecting anything and everything possible about your browser that a host can determine. It is called BrowserSpy, and it is really comprehensive. (Note, just to be explicit, the aforementioned site is not Firefox specific).
January 2, 2007 at 2:19 am · Filed under General
When you are in the internet business, you need internet tools. Pretty obvious right?
However, when the discussion is between tech people on different platforms (Win/IE, Mac/Safari, Opera), they all have
their favorite browser. In my mind this argument is over.
A great way to communicate this is to look at the graphics design world. No matter what people
say, the designers always end up getting a copy of photoshop. It is the 800lb gorilla in that space.
Everybody who does design work pretty much uses photoshop on a daily basis. I think even tech
people get this at this point. Its a great tool for the job, and an amazing tool for the experienced user.
People may still argue about the platform, but they don’t argue about Photoshop.
Now, if you focus on the people that actually work in the web industry, there still seems to be a bit
of religion. This is strange to me since it is obvious how much better Firefox is.
Just get a demo of the
great tools and extensions that work with it. It is miles above every other browser. (This is
easy to test, just run Firefox and the
Web Developer Toolbar and
Firebug. Explore those tools for
the next hour. You’ll get it…There are no equivalents for any other browser.)
I think its time for a new meme about this. The web-dev techs should start saying, ‘hey, this Firefox thing… its kinda like
the photoshop of the web’. I think this would get people to adjust their perspective and agree that
this is the right tool no matter which platform. It would take Firefox to the next level.
(p.s. Sure, you should still test on IE and Safari. You just should develop on them.)
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