I have never owned anything Apple related, and really had not planned to. Sure, the platform has always been something to drool over – but the price you have to pay to get into this exclusive club has always chased me off. Well, that was until I recently won an iPad 2 and had it delivered to my doorstep.
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Mobile Website Testing Made Easy
Wish you had an easy way to test how your website looks on a mobile device, but don’t feel like whipping out the ol’ iPhone right now? What if you don’t have a mobile device to test from? The iPhone Simulator gives you a web-based area where you can see how your website would look if somebody happened to be browsing it on an iPhone.
25 Favorite Ways to Make Your Desktop Wooden
Decorating my PC’s desktop with a simple wood-like wallpaper seems to help me clear the clutter, and focus more on the task at hand. Well, that and I just think the wood look and feel just looks awesome on any computer monitor. With that in mind I have collected 25 of my favorite wood-related wallpapers to share with you here.
Darker Wood - Retro Wooden Wallpapers
- Sticky War
- Wood Wallpaper 2
- Vista Wood Logo Wallpaper
- Wood Wallpaper 2, Dark Edition
- Apple Wood wallpapers
- Abandon Otis Walls
- TheOriginal
- WinGNOME Wood
- Mac Wood
- Lamps wallpaper
- Wood Sepia 2
- Wooden Boards Wallpaper Pack
- Elegance On Wood
- Blackflower Wallpaper Pack
- Parquet
- Dark Wooden Wall
- Elegance On Wood v.2
- It’s um.. wood…
- Vista Leather Logo Wallpaper
- Ubuntu Carbon Wood
- Wood Texture Stock
- how sexy can wood be?
- Wood Sepia
Have a favorite that didn’t make it onto the list? Be sure to let me know. Also, feel free to spread the list around to see if we can find even more great wood wallpaper.
Apple Updates Becoming More Annoying
Dear Apple, please stop it with the useless updates…
Is it just me, or is Apple starting to remind you more of the Real Player more and more? Or perhaps, maybe Adobe and the 10,000 unrelated updates it asks for?
Google Reader Notifications for Windows, Mac and Linux!
I got an e-mail the other day from somebody wanting to know if I knew of any programs for Windows that would allow a user to get popup notifications when Google Reader was updated.
Want to keep up to date whenever your Google Reader has fresh new content to read through? There are several browser plugins that will do this, but not many for the operating system itself. I have three solutions though to cover all of the operating system bases:
Now you should have no problems at all keeping up with my RSS feed. Feel free to subscribe and pass it around to others.
Another Gmail Apple Theme?
While waiting for the Gmail folks to upgrade my account – figured I’d go out and look at some of the alternative themes out there for it. This one I found over at Userstyles.org – the home for scripts used with the Stylish Firefox extension (or with some, Greasemonkey).
I do have to say it looks pretty slick.
Free iPhone Giveaway!
Well I would give one away if I had one. Personally, I want to thank Apple for allowing me to skip out on reading and feeds today because I can’t freaking turn around without seeing another “I’m Getting an iPhone Man!” posts today.
I’m not bitter though, instead of fighting the noise – I’ll just contribute to it. 
Give Google Reader an Mac Look
There have not been that many scripts out there for changing Google Reader’s look and feeling. The only real good one that I have found to do so is this Greasemonkey script. As far as style goes, it turns your sister’s ugly friend into a super model.
You’ll need Firefox and an install of the Greasemonkey extension to get it going, but for all the Mac OS X Fans out there – this is for you.
Swift – More Browsing Fun?
Well, it looks like there is another browser getting ready to pounce on the compeditors in the war for your surfing attention. Swift is a Web browser for Windows based on the Apple WebKit rendering engine. From somebody who has never even used and Apple (I’d rather eat them) here are my thoughts.
Well first things first, it didn’t stay running long. After going to about two or three Web sites, it just died on me. That isn’t so cool. The inteface needs some work, but I am sure a polished look will come in time. One more thing that really gets me is there is no right-click menu! This might be some sort of Apple thing, but if you are going to have a program on Windows, I need my right-click menu.
Overall, I think in the future it might be great – but this release shouldn’t be people’s first impressions of it. They should have held off a little while longer till they got it at least fully usable. Download it for yourself, and let me know what you think!
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