Archive for the ‘Web Apps’ Category
How To Try Gmail For iPad From Your Mac or PC
Read about Gmail’s version for the iPad? Curious to try it yourself? Don’t have an iPad? No worries.
All you need to do is to change the user-agent string of your browser to be the same as the iPad Safari:
Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; U; CPU OS 3_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.4 Mobile/7B334b Safari/531.21.10
I’ve done it with Safari on my Mac with the developers tools enabled (after enabling the developers tools, go to Develop->User Agent menu and pick other). If you have other browser/OS, just google “[your browser] change user agent string”, pick the best result and follow the instructions.
Once you done with changing the user agent string, surf to gmail.com and enjoy. The iPad UI is less useful on a non touch screen, but it’s interesting to play with and see Gmail in two columns.
Obviously, this trick will work with most (all?) other iPad web apps.
Launching Lite Apps – the fastest way to tweet or email from the iPhone
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Maybe It’s OK That Wordpress Kill Your CPU
Jeff Atwood writes about WordPress performance. Quite astonishing – it appears to be that if your blog is medium sized (or bigger) you must install WP-Cache in order it will survive traffic peaks and doesn’t kill your server.
When I read it, my first though was: “too bad they though that fancy control panel is more important the performance.”, but then I though of something else – maybe avoiding performance issues and dealing with other stuff before that, that’s more user targeted thinking of features: most Wordpress users are small bloggers (like me (-:) and therefore they need better UI experience than caching, while the big fish can handle the extra hassle of installing WP-Cache or paying for a dedicated server.
Think of that next time you decide which feature to implement first. Remmeber – listen to your users, not your engineers
Arik
Zooomr? Wait for Mark III!
I recommend you reading Raoul Pop’s review of Zooomr, as it is more extensive and comprehensive.
While browsing Alex King’s blog I’ve stumbled upon a post mentioning that Zooomr is giving away pro account to any blogger who will blog about them, and add a photo from Zooomr to that post. While Flickr pro account costs 25$ receiving something similar for free sounded inviting.