Google’s finally released a beta version of their browser for the Mac. I’m surprised at how impressive I’m finding it. Here are some initial observations:
“Reopen Closed Tab”
Google Chrome allows you to reopen the last tab you closed, which is an insanely useful feature I don’t seem to be able to live without anymore, and a [...]
I very much appreciate Firefox’s ability to save and restore my window and tab settings every time I quit and relaunch the app. It’s one of my favorite things about Firefox.
But I seem to remember that there was once a way to enable this feature while also having Firefox open new blank windows, that is, [...]
A quickie: It’s fairly common knowledge that, in the Finder, command-clicking the icon in the titlebar of the folder you’re in will reveal the folder hierarchy that said folder lives in. This is a handy way to find your current location and “drill up” in the folder hierarchy, if you will.
I’ve always longed for similar [...]
I was recently reading an article on the Tao of Mac that said, among other things:
“I’ve long preferred to use iPhone Twitter and Facebook clients over desktop ones…“
It’s true, there are a handful of iPhone applications that are actually better than the original apps they replace — Facebook, for sure, and my recent fave, the [...]
That title should give you a hint just how much my responsibilities have changed since I took my new job. Yes, I still run a Mac OS X Server, but I no longer get bi-yearly hardware updates. So my server is running a PPC, as is my workstation. So no Snow Leopard Server for me, [...]
One of the touted features of the 3.0 iPhone upgrade was the addition of landscape mode throughout most Apple applications. Initially this sounded like quite a boon. Until I realized: I never use landscape mode, I don’t like landscape mode, landscape mode is always activating when I don’t want it to and there’s no way [...]
Alexander Limi, one of the developers of the fine — and my favorite — browser, Firefox, recently issued a challenge that has been heard by many: how to make application installation more sensible for the less technically advanced. What followed — and, to some extent preceded — was an explosion of discussion on the matter.
It [...]
So that’s what this is all about!
I grabbed this screen shot a while ago when I updated to iPhone OS 3.1. I do that sometimes. See something that strikes me as odd and get a screen shot of it, just in case.
Today I just happened to stumble upon some info that explains the odd, “…verify [...]
Yeah, my iPhone 3GS has been actin’ funny, and I don’t know why. I really don’t. And as a SysAdmin I find the lack of real troubleshooting tools very frustrating.
About the best I can do here is to report my findings. So here are some of the things my iPhone 3GS has started doing.
Network Confusion
The [...]
I’ve come across some strange new behaviors in Firefox 3.5. Some, I’m sure, are just the result of bugs or using the beta version for so long, others are likely features. But they’re all interesting. So in the interest of sharing I give you these Firefox 3.5 oddities.
Font Request
At some point I must’ve gone to [...]