Google Chrome Developer Tools
April 15th, 2010 | 1 comment
The Google Chrome web browser is extremely fast and has pretty much become my primary browser. It has some developer tools baked into the browser similar to the Firebug addon for Firefox. I still tend to gravitate to using Firebug for heavy duty stuff, but the tools in Chrome are good enough that I find myself breaking out Firefox less and less for Firebug. If you are feeling geeky, or want access to some of the newest developer tools for Chrome/Webkit, you can run with the Dev Channel build. It is the most cutting edge build of Chrome, so you always…
Remove GRUB from an external USB drive
April 4th, 2010
Need to remove the GRUB boot loader from an external usb drive connected to a Windows machine? This is how I did it. I had a hard drive that was set up to dual boot Linux and Windows XP. The windows XP install had ceased working for some reason so I decided to wipe the drive and do a clean install. Since this was an old laptop of mine that my father-in-law was using, I figured I would also wipe the linux partition, that I had played with long ago, and get rid of the dual boot option. I removed…
msgme: “Exception Error” with external app
December 18th, 2008
The other day I decided to play around with the Msgme SMS platform. My goal was to create a application that lets my wife record the number of hours she works. She just needs something very simple. So my idea was to make a little app that lets her use her cell phone or web browser to indicate start and stop times of when she is working. I was going to tie in the Msgme SMS service to allow her to text “timeStart” or “timeStop”. Msgme allows you to set up keywords that are tied to their SMS number. Then…
A similar story
December 11th, 2008
I came across a story from a fellow in Singapore who dropped his iPhone. His account of breaking the phone read nearly identical to mine. I wonder how many other people are breaking their iPhones as a result of dropping them in restaurants and having the glass hit the table leg. It seems an unlikely event.
Broke my iPhone 3g screen
November 25th, 2008
About 2 weeks ago, Brittany and I were getting some takeout at a local Chinese restaurant and I dropped my iPhone when I was taking it out of my pocket. It happened to land face down on a metal leg of a table and shattered near the home button. Having owned it for only about 3 weeks, I was pretty upset. So after trying to figure out what to do about it, I ended up buying a replacement glass display and digitizer to fix it myself. I didn’t really find a definitive source online to learn about what was covered…