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Apps I’d like to see

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Safari for Android? Never thought I'd hear anybody ask for that.

I still can't think of a reason to ask for it.

It does sound odd, but when Chrome for Android was released there was suddenly a lot of talk about how bad the original browser was. But I assume Chrome would fulfill this one.

Yes, I can see the appeal. I haven't used mobile safari enough to know if it is a lot better than the stock browser in ICS. It is definitely better than all previous Android browsers, though.

The stock ICS browser is much better. It's actually better than the current chrome beta, imo.

1. Set Outlook to send/receive every 1440 minutes :-);

2. WinAutomation inside a VM (?);

3. SnagIt;

6. Adobe Device Central;

7. WinAutomation inside a VM (?);

10. Built in browser is great (seriously, how is Safari better?);

In many ways Safari is better than Android stock, in particular in the HTML5 features supported.

But if you have ICS, Chrome for Android actually beats Safari.

"An app that sets up and updates Xcode and command line developer tools automatically."

As someone who just spent 2 days dealing with bugs specifically related to the Xcode 4.3.1 / iOS 5.1 release, PLEASE GOD NO. NO. GOD NO. I'll update Xcode manually and with as much advance warning as possible, thank you very much.

We're working on a web app version of #4, a version of pgAdmin that doesn't look like it's from 2001. Except with support for more databases besides PostgreSQL and with a lot of cool features you can only get from a web-based database admin and dev tool.

Fantastic , I hope it will work for mysql too.

For DB admin the only nice simple tool I've ever found is SQLYog which is Windows only.

PHPMyadmin doesn't have a very nice user experience.

I don't need a massive feature set, just something that allows me to fiddle with testdata easily, define and edit table structure and do things like copy tables, DBs between hosts with a couple of clicks.

If you're on OSX, have you given Sequel Pro a try?

No, on linux so a web app of some kind would be ideal.

In this case, would you kindly fill out contact information in your "about" handle.

The email app is more of an email app feature

It's more like a limitation.

In Thunderbird, Account Settings -> Server Settings -> Enable Check for new messages every 3600 minutes, disable "Check new messages at start-up". You might also want to remove the get new messages button from the toolbar.

This is something that RMS advocates:

"Once or twice or maybe three times a day I connect and transfer mail in and out. Before sending mail, I always review and revise the outgoing messages. That gives me a chance to catch mistakes and faux pas." [1]

As other commenters have pointed out it is a feature that is present in a lot of email clients. I suspect that the author uses a web based email solution.

[1] http://richard.stallman.usesthis.com/

Is there anything like this in Gmail Labs?

Some of the suggestions are a bit odd, but I wholeheartedly agree on the Android simulator. I had to do some site QA recently and trying to figure out how to get it up and running on a Mac was painful.

Eventually just found someone with an Android device and borrowed it.

I can't disagree. In all honesty though, I believe its due to people expecting it to be a simulator when its a full ARM emulator. Apparently, if you have an Intel VT enabled processor, you can make it more usable with the "Intel Hardware Accelerated Execution Manager" - http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-hardware-acce...

If you have homebrew, it is easy to install and update the SDK with "brew install android-sdk android-ndk".

> Screen recording software that’s not weird.

If you are on OS X, I heard lots of good things about http://screenyapp.com

How much would you pay for each of these apps?

defaults write com.apple.mail PollTime '1440'

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