John Resig uses this
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"I wish my MacBook had built-in 3G capabilities, I wish it was easier to type on my iPad, I wish Chrome was a better browser, I wish SABnzbd+ was smart enough to not re-download files, I wish my iPhone was faster, I wish I didn’t need a dongle to do a presentation with my MacBook, I wish Boxee didn’t crash so much, I wish my car accepted audio input, I wish Dropbox could backup my Google Docs and Mail."
Also check out nzbmatrix as a NZB source, it's done me quite well.
Finally, SuperNews is a Giganews reseller that is a bit cheaper if you're looking to save money (though with all that Apple gear it's unlikely).
Also check out the SABconnect++ Chrome Extension.
Yes, well. I always thought it was really dumb for cars to not accept audio input. I mean, why? but why? and most importantly: since when will we, users, let those machine makers dictate the way we have to use their tools?
My car is a cheap minivan, but I HAVE external audio input, and use it 100% of the time.
It is the same with iTune: why can't I delete audio files? I am a grown-up, please let me delete files I want to delete.
Letting other people control your environment drives me crasy. It is very strange to see so many devs like Resig using more and more Apple Inc products. We devs shouldn't we not being in full control of our tools? Dear Mr Resig, what is GNU/Linux for you? Why is it not in the landscape? jQuery is open, right? Don't you care being trapped in a closed garden? Do you agree with the fact that iPhone software must be developped on iX machines using iY IDE, plugged together with iZ cables, all from one manufacturer?
I would suggest my mother to buy Apple products, either phone or laptop, and maybe also to my sister if she does a lot of photo or video editing. But for developpers, what can't you do with Linux?
I'm not sure what you're getting about about losing control, formats, etc. I use Pixelmator for image manipulation (even after all these years, Gimp just doesn't cut it), Inkscape for vector illustration, vim for code, Spotify for music. Apple haven't curbed my ability to do anything based on that list.
I just used a Grom adapter to add bluetooth to my 1999 daily driver. It doesn't have whizzy features like voice dialing and A2DP audio quality is not excellent but, for podcasts, pop music, and phone calls, it's great.
http://www.overstock.com/Electronics/Griffin-RoadTrip-iPhone...
Once you hear the music from your device coming on your car speakers with out the need for wires you'll never go back.
Whats interesting that I learned about it once I got one came from the way I bought it. I made sure that it had a usb, a 3.5 mm jack, and bluetooth.
USB - sound quality is best but you have to use the radio user interface to interact with your device and play music, a ui which is terrible. Also on my HTC EVO the USB port doesn't stay connected reliably
3.5mm - not noticeably above radio quality still needs another cord
Bluetooth - better than radio quality audio (though not quite as good as the usb), no interference and no wires. I use this most of the time as not having to hassle with wires or the usb disconnecting interrupting the music is great.
ipod - Also almost forgot, if you use an ipod for your music most car radios nowadays have a special mode for them and the audio quality is awesome. (Like crazy almost CD if not CD quality awesome)
I use a Sony xplod personally.
Works very beautifully.
I pour over every detail of their articles while at the same time reminding myself "it's not about the tools, it's about the person".
At the end of the day, use what makes you happy not because a programmer rock-star is using it.
Disclaimer: I love apple products developing on the .NET framework, it may be ironic that up until last week I was running win7 on a macbook pro to develop for WP7 :)
He'd already adjusted his sleep patterns to match NZ time.
Awesome dude.
Did he just openly admit to illegally downloading media via Usenet?
Similarly, USENET is completely legal, and there isn't anything intrinsically wrong with binary newsgroups either, but NZBs.org and Newzbin specialize in illegal content distribution. If you have a subscription to a site like Giganews and need a tool like SABnzbd+ to automate the downloading process then you aren't an incidental user either.
So let's not play games; we both know how the internet works. "There might be one or two legal-to-distribute files on that site." or "Filesharing may not be illegal in his jurisdiction." are good points to bring up in a court case, but in reality we both know what it means when you are "running SABnzbd+ [..] connecting to Giganews [..] pulling from NZBs.org or Newzbin". It's sad that that throwaway240 is downvoted for just explicitly stating it.
Additionally, as somebody that highly seeds Linux distros through torrents, I'd like you to go back to your Jump to Conclusions mat.
[citation needed]? I’ve never heard that before. Mind you, I’m not in the US.
I'm also not sure that they never prosecuted anyone for downloading is actually a sufficient amount of evidence that it is legal. I've never heard of anyone get prosecuted for uploading just one song or one movie, that doesn't mean that it would be legal to do so.
There are many examples where this is true: BitTorrent/P2P (this is actually far more prominent than you'd think; a trendy example is Spotify), BitCoin, Usenet, Tor, Metasploit, any anonymous network, et al.
"I wish Chrome was a better browser"
John can you elaborate on this?
I use a ton of tabs in my browser, in Firefox the tabs go off to the side and allow me to scroll through them (while still allowing me to read the title) whereas Chrome squishes the tabs into tiny micro-sized pills that are completely unreadable.
Additionally I use App Tabs in both browsers - but only in Firefox does it highlight when I've received an update (such as a message in Hip Chat or an email in Gmail).
The lack of integrated extensions in Chrome makes for a weaker overall experience. I use PasswordMaker to manage my passwords - works great in Firefox, can enter passwords into any field, but in Chrome it frequently doesn't detect a password field - and since it doesn't have context menu access I can't fill in my password. I end up having to open up Firefox just to get to my password.
So yeah, I still use Firefox for daily browsing, and Chrome for dev.
I mention this not to hate on Chrome or side tabs, but because I hope one day it will be as good. Once Chrome gets an actual equivalent version of TST and Pentadactyl, I'll happily switch.
Could you elaborate on this -- do you mean that the permissions available to Chrome extensions are limited?
So yeah, strike the last item from my list - I blame it solely on PasswordMaker.
agreed about the little things like hovers. I still find that double clicks on image resources in css not opening them in a new tab drives me mad :)
I do love chromes timings panel, with rendering timings. much better for optimizing. and their whole dev tools seem to run a lot quicker for me, firebug I have speed issues with sometimes, especially on complicated js pages.
- Only Chrome lets you set a breakpoint on JS event listeners.
- Only IE let's you change the next line of execution in JS.
- You *can't* edit the value of a local variable in the Chrome console!
- Only IE9 & FF search multiple JS files when doing a text find.
- IE doesn't refresh the dev tools representation of the DOM without clicking refresh.
- Only IE has a "format JavaScript" for minimized, obfuscated JS. And it allows you to set breakpoints on the formatted lines!
- Only Chrome has tools for finding memory leaks (see dev channel for big improvements in that).
And then there's the worthless "{...}" object display from the Javascript console...
-enable-apps -enable-vertical-tabs
It eats up a little of your screen real estate but I guess that should be okay as you have a 27" iMac. And you will be able to see the names of every tabs then !!!
I wonder if he is still browsing the web with wget.
I too wish it was easier to write on the iPad, and that multi-tasking was an actual possibility.
They're all very accessible people from experience.
(i realise they're not ALL true techies, but still)
Sadly true. And Plex, the main alternative, crashes as much, but in different ways. No more Front Row in Lion. I think Apple want us to buy Apple Tv...
And Plex, the main alternative, crashes as much, but in different ways.I'm working on a infographic, or something along those lines, that shows a breakdown of what it used on UsesThis, but the pie charts are going to mostly be Apple flavored.
I recently picked up one of the new Toshiba Portege models to run Linux, and stock Ubuntu is giving me flashbacks to the circa-1999 Linux experience -- it doesn't detect when a monitor appears over HDMI, randomly will run up to 100% and freeze (kernel patch coming soon!), power management settings seem basically ignored with the display dimming when that is both disabled and I'm typing... and the worst part? Mentioned it to the local department Linux people, and they just said, "oh, yeah, you should've bought Thinkpad."
Sometimes I have problems getting the display connected to the docking station to detect if I suspend while not connected, then connect, then resume. This is a pretty minor flaw that is fairly easily worked around.
Another factor represented here is they're popular in the corporate world - I know Adobe is standardized on them for the Windows side and I /think/ Google is too.
that's easy, just use Firefox
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