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Viewing Source on the Nexus 7

If you want to “view source” for an HTML page on the Nexus 7, you can do so in Chrome by prepending “view-source:” to the URL. Example: view-source:http://alexking.org This will also work (it redirects to the http:// verision): view-source:alexking.org This also works in the desktop versions of Chrome and Firefox, but doesn’t seem to work…

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Wanted: Multiple Incognito Sessions

Steve laments the lack of easy “Incognito” windows in Firefox. I tried Safari as my primary browser for a few weeks when I upgraded to Lion and I really missed this as well. Once it becomes part of your workflow, it’s really hard to go back. I actually want it to go a step further.…

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The President Surrenders on Debt Ceiling – agreed. TechStars on Bloomberg TV – check it out. Confession #105: The Action Movie Blog Post – “I have three friends who are accomplished novelists. Two of them have cut off all Internet access to their homes. The other leaves his devices behind and sits in an unconnected…

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Safari’s Naked Tabs

I’ve been using Safari as my primary browser as a trial on my Lion machine. The number one thing I can’t get over is the lack of favicons in tabs. When I get 5+ tabs open, picking the right tab is a total crapshoot. Especially since Safari introduced opening tabs adjacent to the current tab…

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NPR.org – When Patents Attack – this is nuts. (thanks Steve) Remarks by the President at University of Maryland Town Hall | The White House – plainspoken answers to tough questions. Don’t punish everyone for one person’s mistake – “learn to shrug”. (thanks Matt) The Chart That Should Accompany All Discussions of the Debt Ceiling…

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Google’s Button is Slow – And so is Facebook’s. – It’s both difficult and frustrating to explain to clients that the reason their sites are slow is because of 3rd party scripts; typically ads and social buttons. (thanks Chris) What Safari’s Reading List means for Instapaper – I wonder if Marco has read this. Delivereads:…

iPad Guest Mode

With the addition of an 11″ MacBook Air to my travel arsenal, my primary use for my iPad is as an around the house machine. Specifically, I find it best to have it hanging around in a living space where I can use it to quickly get information. Sometimes I use an app, sometimes the…

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Marco.org – Speculation on the next MacBook Pro – I’ve had every generation of MacBook Air, all with SSDs. The performance has been nearly the same on all of them – all great. I can only assume that people talking about “slow” MacBook Airs had a non SSD one. Announcing the TechStars Network – very,…

Just Use the Empty Tab

I guess this is a pet peeve of mine, but why don’t any of the major browsers open a requested URL in the frontmost tab if that tab is empty (about:blank)? Camino got this right years ago, but Firefox, Safari and Chrome still open up a new tab next to the empty one. I can’t…

Samsung Galaxy Tab User Agent

If you’re trying to sniff the Samsung Galaxy Tab, here is the current User Agent string1: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.2; en-us; SCH-I800 Build/FROYO) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1 It looks like SCH-I800 may be the best thing to look for. Would it have killed them to add “Android Tablet (7 inch)” in…

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Reached the tipping point with MobileMe. Now enabling sync for Mail and Bookmarks (I don’t use Safari, but LaunchBar indexes them fine).

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An open enhancement request to the Mobile Safari team for sane bookmarklet installation or alternatives – This is a big time need. BuzzVoice update: App is now Free on Android market – ReadItToMe was ahead of its time. Multi-line CSS definitions – I feel somewhat responsible for this. T-Mobile Follows suit, lowers Data Cap to…

Chrome’s Incognito Mode

I’m finding that the Incognito windows in Google Chrome (I actually us Chromium) are becoming a daily tool in my standard browsing and development toolset. When I first heard about the concept of private browsing I had a more narrow view of it’s usefulness; but I’m finding lots of legitimate uses for it. A few…

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HTML5 Tip: input type=”date” and Webkit

If you’re using HTML5 (like we are on the Crowd Favorite website), you may run into an issue of forms not submitting in Webkit browsers (Safari, Chrome). If the form is failing silently with no JavaScript errors and you have an <input type=”date” /> in the form, that may be the issue. It appears that…

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Rands In Repose: The Twinge – great stuff, as usual (finally catching up on my InstaPaper). ongoing by Tim Bray – HTML5 and the Web – Right now, there are certain classes of applications, particularly on mobile devices, where you’re going to get a better result by building a native app. Maybe even by building…