I’m a browser snob. I run Chrome. I ran Firefox until it go popular. But besides popularity, here’s three tiny things that make Chrome my favorite browser for client-side development.
Just right click that element.
- element inspection: right click and there it is. Then the element you’re inspecting is clearly identified and it’s dimensions (margin, padding too) are easy to see.
- easily view style inheritance and edit styles: when you inspect an element, its styles are at your fingertips. No more pixel pushing – if I need to fix a style, just make it look right and copy the new values to my style sheets.
- javascript debugging: yeah FF and IE8 do that. Chrome does it best. I’ll get into the head to heads in a second. But I can javascript the DOM the same way I edit the styles using the console. And I can easily explore variable contents in the same place I call them up. (more…)
Let’s root my slide!
That’s right I finally got it to work. Here’s how I did it and what you might expect if you’re trying to root a myTouch Slide 3G from the fiends at T-Mobile (and HTC).
Why I did it:
1) I HATE THE BOOT SCREEN (more…)
Today in apps!
Last night I went uninstall crazy. A good thing too, because at dinner last night Tom the Talking Cat was requested the cutesy parlor trick it is. I ended up taking Broadsides off too. I loved the game, the writing was phenomenal. I figure I reached the best and worst possible endings and was skimming most of it so I feel like I outgrew it. I’m ready and waiting for them to come up with a new story though! They did a great job on it. I took out Craps and Othello because I never really played them.
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This is the second time I’ve put taskswitcher on my machine. This would be a helpful app, but I need it to overtake the homebutton longpress. The current options of search longpress and home press simply don’t work on my phone due to the genius crapware from T-mobile that I haven’t been able to root out.
This looks like it could have been a pretty powerful app for contact list management. There are two problems. One, it took me on a contact by contact odyssey that I just don’t have the patience for. And two, I have come to the realization that the contact access on the phone is good enough that I don’t really care about duplicates etc. I need to just stop being attracted to all the OCD contact management apps
This probably could be a great grocery list manager. It purports to sync family lists, it organizes items by category and store and well, it’s a list manager. I’ve got SpringPad to do that for me. I realized it just as I finished the install and I immediately just deleted it off my phone for the precious space. Sorry.
I also removed Financisto, Google Sky and my weather widgets to make room on the system memory. Financisto looked to be an awesome finance app, but I already have one (mvelopes, which needs an app version). Google Sky is mostly a parlor trick app for me. It was fun for the double moon night, Friday and when I’m hanging out on the back porch with friends and brews. But it isn’t really worth it day-to-day for the size it costs. I’m still looking for the perfect weather widget since I switched to launcher pro and can’t use the HTC widget. The one I just removed did weird things with time and location that I just didn’t feel like dealing with, twice.
