Sneaky Chrome updates again
August 21st, 2010Chrome is a true Google product. Google, whose point of view is the Internet and constantly-updating content, updates Chrome silently. Restarting Chrome very well might yield new features, which is what just happened to me. My initial reaction was, “Ah, very cool, but wait what did it used to look like?” So here’s a screenshot of Google Chrome 5 versus 6:
Roomie gets some CSS schooling
June 24th, 2010This week I have been furiously re-writing a few key elements of the Roomie website. Specifically, I scrapped the old device button controls, which you can see here. They were ok, but they were very rigid in use, offering only two different pictures to back the buttons. Zooming on mobile devices didn’t work so great either, since the images were PNGs, raster graphics. Now I have created a button framework entirely in CSS, HTML, and ASP.NET controls. Because of this, I can easily create new kinds of controls completely in code, and they even zoom cleanly as well. My original vision for this was to enable the user to create “virtual device controls”, which would display next to the regular device controls.
Excellent! Bing really is a decision engine.
June 24th, 2010This screenshot is pretty self-explanatory.
Abomination or AWESOME?
June 20th, 2010I love my Zune. It’s small, and great at what it does: play music. With my Zune Pass music subscription, I can slurp up just about any song from the Zune Marketplace for a flat rate of $15 a month. I am also growing to quite appreciate my shiny new iPad. My friends and family often see me as a die-hard Microsoft buff, but I know better than that. My brother once jokingly accused me of Microsoft fanboy-ism for showing him an article about some Microsoft Research project. I was viewing the webpage in my browser of choice, Google Chrome.
Sorry, Facebook. Even you can’t fix this.
June 18th, 2010I click on “Relationships” and this is what I get. Oops indeed…
