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I’ve been using Chalk by 37signals on my iPad all day and I love it. Here is the announcement post by Jamie at 37signals.

Looks like my recent switch back to Google Chrome is already paying dividends. The Gmail team has now moved a much loved lab feature that allows you to drag and drop images from your desktop onto a new message and have it automatically attach and/or insert directly into the message out into the open. I…

So Chrome is faster than Safari again. Not one month ago I said: "I’m back to Safari. I still love Chrome but Safari’s latest update made it edge out Chrome for speed. Speed, it seems, is the killer feature for me in Web browsers." It seems I’m going to follow the speed and it turns…

[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] I’m back to Safari. I still love Chrome but Safari’s latest update made it edge out Chrome for speed. Speed, it seems, is the killer feature for me in Web browsers. Until this latest release the Top Sites page in Safari was too slow for me to find useful. Now, however, it…

From the department of ‘I never knew I’d really need that’ comes the latest Google Chrome update that makes it dead simple to translate a Web page from many different languages into your native one. I hadn’t realized how many Web sites I’d been missing out on until this update rolled through. Then I found…

For months I’ve been using Chromium the open source browser that powers Google Chrome. Using Chromium had its advantages and disadvantages. I had the bleeding edge of what was offered by the Chromium team – whether it was stable or not. But, I also had to manually update my personal copy of Chromium on a…

[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] A few days ago I updated to the latest nightly build of Chromium, something I do every few days using TechCrunch’s Chrome-Up application, and was elated to discover that Chromium finally has a Bookmark Manager. Up until this release I was unable to edit any of the bookmarks that I had imported…

Dave Shea has put together a rather fascinating list of some of the things that have happened since the release of Internet Explorer 6 on August 27, 2001 (a browser that is still in use).

I’ve been using Chrome as my default browser for nearly six months. It won Best Browser in my Best of 2009 list. I didn’t even realize it had been that long until I went back through some of [the things I wrote about Chrome here in First initial, last name](http://cdevroe.com/?s=chromium chrome). To be more specific,…

This is just wonderful. Marco Arment has recently released a back up application for Tumblr that is currently only available for Mac OS X. This back up application takes a fairly unique approach among blogging platforms in that it backs up your Tumblog using raw files to your hard disk. It saves HTML files directly…

In November 2008 I put forth a list of things I thought were the best Web sites, applications, and various other things that I came across in 2008. I said "They are simply works that I feel should be awarded with the recognition of being the best that I’ve personally found this year." I’m doing…

Pie Guy is a fun game for your iPhone that is free, is installed via the Web (it is a fancy Web page), works offline, and is actually a lot of fun (works sorta like Pac-Man). Neven Mrgan, the developer of Pie Guy, built the game – not only so people can enjoy the game…

In mid-September I wrote that I was going to give Instapaper a whirl. And for a day or two I did but it didn’t stick. Turns out I was doing it wrong. I was trying to use Instapaper as a way to sync a "reading list" between two computers (in this case, my iPhone and…

Last weekend I rolled out an updated theme for this site when your browsing it with an iPhone. The main reason for this is my mobile photos. When I post a mobile photo my site automatically Twitter’s a link to it, like this, and a lot of people flood in to view the photos and…

I’m a big fan of Webkit. Although I had been a die hard fan of Safari for a while I’m now using Google Chrome as my primary browser. The great thing about Chrome is that it too uses the Webkit rendering engine. I’ll catalog my reasons for using Chrome in another post. The next version…

I’ve been playing with recent developer preview releases of Google Chrome for Mac and I got to thinking about how important it is for Google to get the Mac version of Chrome right. Not for Google, really. For us, the users. As it stands Safari is far and away the best browser available on the…

Keyboard shortcuts, both for the browser itself and for Web sites that take advantage of them, can be extremely powerful. Google Reader set the precedent for keyboard shortcuts by working through a stream of information using J to advance and K to move backward through the stream. The Big Picture, Ffffound, and now Tumblr’s Dashboard…

I played around with Odosketch for a few minutes and at first glance – it is one of the better ‘in-browser’ sketching tools out there. I look forward to working with it in the future. Via David Kaneda.

After reading this review by Pierre Igot I gave Safari 4’s full-page zoom feature a spin. It is incredibly impressive. I wish the browser wars were not such a tight race right now so that choosing a browser wouldn’t be such a hard decision. (via John Gruber)

Ever since Google release Chrome, their browser, I’ve been waiting with bated breath for Chrome for Mac. Thanks to my friend Jake Dahn I got a copy of the developer preview. Its really fast. Faster than Safari on the Mac. I’m excited for a more stable and complete beta at which point I plan to…

Ben Parr of Mashable.com reports that, according to current trends, IE will be going the way of the Dodo in 2021. Or, at least, it won’t be the leading browser. This, in and of itself is great news – but do we really have to wait that long? Ugh.

Yes, another Twitter client (I’m cdevroe by the way). However, this one comes from atebits – the company that brought us the highest ranked Twitter client for the iPhone, also named Tweetie. Tweetie for Mac, which I’ve been using all morning, allows for multiple accounts, posting from the browser, auto URL shortening, and much more.…

Since I’m posting mobile photos and notes to this site rather than a third-party service I figured I’d make those pages a little more condusive to viewing on a mobile platform. Also, to make my life a little easier, I’ve also set up a few little scripts to do things like Twitter a link to…

If you haven’t heard of the DiggBar, and the hoopla it has created over the last week or so, allow me to fill you in. The DiggBar is a new feature of Digg.com, a social news Web site, that puts a tool bar of sorts on top of any page on the Web. This bar…

I’m all for advertising on the Web. But lately it seems that the content to ad ratio isn’t in favor of us readers. So, Arc90 is taking matters into their own hands. They’ve created a simple bookmarklet (or a small piece of JavaScript that you run by clicking on a bookmark in your browser) called Readability. In…

Nearly every browser has "hidden" preferences. Options that you can set by running a command, editing a file, or changing an entry here or there. The Safari 4 Beta, which has only been out for a few days, is no different. Caius, of Random Genius, recently published some of these hidden preferences including: A way…

[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] I remember one of my favorite activities while in the fourth grade was playing Oregon Trail – on a Macintosh – whenever possible. It forced you to make choices, to read, to do math, to learn a little about geography and the limits of what humans can be asked to do. Oregon…

Dean J. Robinson, the developer behind what is easily the best iPhone web application for Twitter, recently gave us a glimpse of what we should expect from the next version of Hahlo. He lists ten things we should know about the next version – and here are three that I’m really looking forward to. Better…

Fluid, the site-specific browser that I use for things like Google Reader, Brightkite, Gmail, and also named one of The Best of 2008 on this site, has been updated to version 0.9.5. Reading the changelog you can see that this is a fairly large release when you weigh it against previous versions. You can also…

It is only mid-November but I’m confident in my choices for this years "Best of 2008 as told by Colin Devroe". This isn’t a list based on popularity, consensus, or a set of rules. They are simply works that I feel should be awarded with the recognition of being the best that I’ve personally found this…

So you use Windows. I’m ok with that I guess. Oh, you also browse the Internet with Internet Explorer? Version 6? Well, I just can’t live with that. In fact, I doubt you and I would get along at parties. But, such as it is you are here, reading something on my site, and so…

Google’s Chrome, the new Web browser by Google, has been getting a lot of attention because of its simple approach to browsing the Web.  But there is more here than meets the eye. It is all about the approach. The new application has its flaws, for sure, but what it gets wrong it makes up…

Even though I don’t like Spotlight’s window in Leopard as much as I did the one in Tiger, I still use Spotlight extensively to launch applications, find files and directories, and search through documents, email messages, instant messages, and much more. However, more and more data is being stored "in the cloud" and so Spotlight…

So it has begun, the next-generation in mobile computing.  Did you miss it?  On Friday, officially, Apple released its updates for both iTunes and the iPhone making it possible for those who owned iPhones, or who purchased the brand-new iPhone 3G on Friday, to install 3rd party applications on the iPhone. The most notable take-away…

FriendFeed, of which I’m a member, recently launched an iPhone-friendly version of their site.  Notably, however, they’ve done it in such a way that I much prefer to some of the ways other sites have done it.  They detect the iPhone’s mobile browser and automatically format it for you, rather than requiring you to remember…

It is a race that has an end at 0.00.  Well, not really.  But you’d have to think that the speed at which a browser can render a certain amount of HTML, JavaScript, and CSS (the bits that make up every Web page on the Internet) has to have a floor.  Meaning, at some point…

I don’t know how many applications you have installed on your computer but I have enough where there is an update to one of them at least once per week and often times more. Due to this barrage of updates yesterday’s release of Firefox 3.0 may just seem like another run-of-the-mill update to one of…

[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] When Apple released the latest update for Mac OS X Leopard, with the version number of 10.5.3, they updated the way that Spaces worked.  As John Gruber pointed out, Spaces now can better focus on "task separation" rather than "application separation". Here is a quick overview and history for you.  Spaces is a…

These are not predictions.  I have no inside information. I just have needs, wants, and aspirations.  And I’m hoping that this year’s WWDC, Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference happening on Monday in San Francisco, as I’ve hoped so many times in the past will help me fill some of them. I’m going to start with something…

[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] I’m writing this under the more than likely false assumption that the directors of WingFest 2008 will actually read it. That the people responsible for the event that took place this past May in Moosic, Pennsylvania on Montage Mountain are savvy enough to open a Web browser and search the Internet using…

I am not even sure how I came across this site.  A few days ago I found myself browsing Dan Phiffer’s Web site and I have to say, it is probably one of the more innovative sites I’ve seen in a while. There are some drawbacks, however: After visiting the site numerous times you kinda…

I am not well versed in CSS.  I can get around.  I can make a site look pretty good in Safari and horrible in Internet Explorer (look at this site in IE for a great example).  But I’m a hacker at best.  I fiddle with CSS until something looks right, I don’t follow conventions or…

Timeframe is "Click-draggable. Range-makeable. A better calendar.", and is open-source.  It is thoroughly impressive, a great implementation, and works best in Safari! Timeframe demo The demonstration (pictured) is by far the best calendar "widget" I’ve seen in a browser.  One of my favorite things is the date range tools which is where Timeframe strived to…

My friend Jon Christopher compares using Safari 3.1 and Firefox 3 Beta 4 as his primary browser and as a browser for developers to use to build their sites. He once again confirms that Firebug, a plugin for Firefox that aids developers in debugging their code, is the main reason many developers use it as…

[ad#Adsense: Horiz 468] I’m sure everyone reading this, especially those of you that use Gmail, is aware that IMAP is now available through both Gmail and most Google Apps accounts*. My Google Apps account became IMAP-enabled on Friday, November 2nd, 2007. Once I saw this I quickly moved into action to setup IMAP on my…

While I await a new build of Camino that works a little better on Leopard I thought it a good opportunity to take Safari 3 for a spin. After using it since my upgrade from Tiger to Leopard I’ve found that Safari 3 is almost as good as Camino and in some ways even better.…

Before I begin gushing about the iPhone I have to mention, especially for those of you that do not have one yet, that you can win one of two free 8Gb iPhones that we’re giving away over at Viddler just for doing simple MeToday videos. Each video you do (one per day per person) is…

So everyone is sick of hearing about the iPhone right? Well, everyone except those of us that are planning on getting one. Recently though I’ve seen some people saying that they don’t know why I am getting an iPhone, why I’m willing to pay so much money, why I’m getting the first version, and some…

One of the most difficult things about building a software product is dealing with feature requests. They come from everywhere. At Viddler we’ve got a forum specifically for jotting down feature ideas, because we all realize that people will have really great ideas on how Viddler could be of use to them. Then, and I…

For those reading this that may not know what Google Gears does allow me to give a little bit of background on the situation and explain how, in general, web applications work. Web applications are different then the applications you run on your computer in two very specific and obvious ways. First, they are run…