So the iPad has launched, and you do not have one. This quick little trick will let you view iPad formatted websites in your browser just as though you had one. You only need 3 things. The first is Firefox. The second is the “User Agent Switcher” plugin for firefox. This will allow you to switch your browsers user agent, so you can view alternative views of web pages specifically for a device with that user agent profile. Lastly, you will need the user agent line of text located below.
Mozilla/5.0(iPad; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.4 Mobile/7B314 Safari/531.21.10
Install the User Agent plugin and create a new user agent profile. Paste in this code and switch to that profile. Next try and go to a website and see which one loks diferent. The website that made me want to try this was for GMAIL. Google just released a very slick looking new iPad formatted website specificly for that device. by going to gmail, it auto detects and thinks I am now using an iPad and displays the page as so. I would honestly love a view format like this for the web version of Gmail. It would be nice if they offered a view like this for web. In the meantime, I may just use an iPad user agent.
I was slightly disappointed as it did not look exactly as it the picture, but it was very cool none the less.
Check it out, test some sites and let me know how it goes. Did you find a cool website? Share it here!
Google just released some updates to Google Analytics and boy are they useful. Having used Google Analytics from private beta, I realized there was one feature missing which could be very useful in reporting - and it was released today. Have you ever ran a campaign for your website or started some marketing promotion and wonder why there was a huge traffic spike 3 months down the line? Google Analytics Annotations can solve that. You can now create custom labels and annotate throughout your accumulating web traffic data. This is very useful right off the bat, lets take a closer look.
If you are playing around with Chromium OS and made your USB drive bootable, you may come across an issue. Here is a scenario - You just put Chromium OS on your bootable USB drive. You are now done with your experiment and now want to go about using your USB drive for other storage, but come across a problem. Your drive is not usable and shows an inaccurate file size of the disk. Here is how to solve that problem.
Ok, so last night I was able to boot up my Gateway netbook into Chrome OS and here is what I found. This guide will help you get set up in under 15 minutes. There are 6 steps to do this and if you are very eager to get Chrome os on your computer to play with, then this is a great tutorial to experiment with.
I am sure you are all aware of the current “buzz” coming from Google. The new Chrome OS is just about ready and the anticipation is building. Basically Google has been working up a very new way of using the computer and running applications you use every day. The idea is that now a days the average user uses the computer to get online. They basically click the power button and wait in anticipation to double click their browser and open it. Google says that why need all this extra fluff if 90% of the time, you are just looking to get online. Take a look at this video for a good overview.
I have a download link to get Chrome OS at the end of this article.
Hi im Tim and I love to do experiments and take adventures online. Professionally I am a Digital Media Producer out of Boston, MA and design, develop and produce interactive media.