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Re: John Resig uses this

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Post by revorad »

dailo10 wrote: post #5

I thought the most interesting part was his wish list at the end. "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…

Regarding typing on the iPad, a thumbs layout keyboard as previewed in this Windows 8 video would be great - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13628154 (skip to 00:40). Is there anything like this for iPad now?

Re: John Resig uses this

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Post by shimon »

purephase wrote: post #14
jeresig wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Off the top of my head, three things that've bugged me: 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 (su…

The "tiny micro-sized pills" in Chrome are a headache. I've never tried the App Tabs extension though, thanks for mentioning it.

I strongly recommend the "Tree Style Tab" extension for Firefox. It give you a vertical tab bar and makes 20-50 tabs per window pretty manageable.

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Post by cormullion »

"I wish Boxee didn't crash so much."

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...

Re: John Resig uses this

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Post by romey »

jeresig wrote: post #12
look_lookatme wrote: post #6

Pretty good, but: "I wish Chrome was a better browser" John can you elaborate on this?

Off the top of my head, three things that've bugged me: 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 (su…

Have you tried using tree tabs in Chrome? It isn't quite as slick as the Firefox tree tabs, but still nicer than the little nubs that are the default. That's interesting though, I always do dev stuff in Firefox because of how anemic firebug is in Chrome, and casual surfing in Chrome because it feels faster.

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Post by zobzu »

jeresig wrote: post #12
look_lookatme wrote: post #6

Pretty good, but: "I wish Chrome was a better browser" John can you elaborate on this?

Off the top of my head, three things that've bugged me: 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 (su…

What's wrong with using Firefox if it works better for you exactly?

Re: John Resig uses this

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Post by hackoder »

revorad wrote: post #21
dailo10 wrote: post #5

I thought the most interesting part was his wish list at the end. "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…

Regarding typing on the iPad, a thumbs layout keyboard as previewed in this Windows 8 video would be great - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13628154 (skip to 00:40). Is there anything like this for iPad now?

A split keyboard is coming in iOS5 IIRC.

Re: John Resig uses this

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Post by bvdbijl »

jeresig wrote: post #20
kalleboo wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Re: SABnzbd+, I wonder if he's tried Sickbeard. Works well to avoid the situation where you'd end up with dupes.

I was looking at it just recently - it looks promising. Haven't had a chance to try it, yet. http://sickbeard.com/

Seriously try it out, it might require some time to get it setup in the way that you want, but combined with XBMC it is golden

Re: John Resig uses this

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Post by DannoHung »

jeresig wrote: post #12
look_lookatme wrote: post #6

Pretty good, but: "I wish Chrome was a better browser" John can you elaborate on this?

Off the top of my head, three things that've bugged me: 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 (su…

Chrome does have a notification that a tab has updated, it's a gentle little pulsing light across the tab (granted, maybe there should be an option to make this a colored pulsing light or something)
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