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Firebug for Safari

May 22nd, 2008 SkyHorse

One of the reasons I was still using Firefox on my mac for the past year was FireBug.
By coincidence I found the Web Inspector tool more or less at the same time Firefox started to crash constantly which just made my transition to Safari even easier.
To activate Web Inspector run the following command in a terminal:
defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitDeveloperExtras -bool true

You will then have a new option called “Inspect Element” when you right click on a page, et voila, a much better looking Firebug and actually much more useful, but still having all those nice things such as request and response headers, download times, sizes and even helpful hints on how to improve your website speed!:

Now if I could just find a way to switch tabs with Apple + 1 , 2 , 3….

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The Microsoft iPod

March 28th, 2008 SkyHorse

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The new macbook: oh no, sorry, its a Vaio

March 25th, 2008 SkyHorse

sony vaio
macbook

Spot the differences…

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The state of Online Advertising 2.0 – part 1: Microhoo?

February 2nd, 2008 SkyHorse

Microhoo!So after Yahoo stocks hit an almost all time low, Microsoft did what they do best: snap the competition up. And what a catch they had this time! Yahoo, founded in the very early 90s (saw its first million page views in 1994) by two Stanford grads, is now one of the top contenders in the “new media advertising industry” heavyweight championship, industry which is estimated to be worth £1.3 Billion ($2.5 Billion USD) at present in the UK alone with an additional £8 billion ($17 billion) in the US in the end of 2006.

So what is Microsoft really buying into?

Yahoo has survived and strived by being able to keep up with the Joneses (aka Google) even if they didn’t really innovate. Microsoft on the other hand right now is simply an “also-ran” on Web 2.0. What Yahoo enjoyed simplyfing (web mail, directory index, online games) Microsoft enjoyed ‘businessfying’ (remember HoTMaiL before Microsoft?). And with their platform-agnostic approach it’s no surprise Mac users have much higher affinity to Yahoo products and services than anyone else’s. Yahoo is the Apple of web 2.0, lifestyle included. Just look at their acquisitions: Photo-sharing with Flickr, del.icio.us social bookmarking, blogging site MyBlogLog, BuzzTracker, Rivals.com, Upcoming.org, video editing JumpCut, Blo.gs, Bix.com.

But Yahoo isn’t just a lifestyle brand. It was also gearing up to online advertising in a big way, and has been doing so for a while with even more acquisitions that started with Overture in 2003 and followed by TeRespondo (brazilian ad network), AdInterax and more recently RightMedia and BlueLithium.

So, who’s left?

There’s Google, AOL and possibly WPP. Really that’s it. Everyone else left in the online advertising space is a horde of small and medium size players either filling a niche spot or waiting to become the “next big thing”. But some other contenders may have not emerged yet. If say an E-bay or Amazon decided to buy some of these small fish, they could certainly come into the game. One interesting ‘fish’ that hasn’t made any significant move in this space is Apple. Apple cannot be sleeping, but what are they waiting for?

Apple Ads?

They have been selling iPods and iPhones like hotcakes and now have significant cash reserves ($15.4 billion). With analysts predicting they will grow 23% a year for the next five years everyone is saying they must take it out of Reno and invest it somewhere in the next 12 months. Where exactly is leaving people divided.

To be continued… “The state of Online Advertising – part 2″

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Mac annoyance #1: Mighty Mouse scroll stops working

November 21st, 2007 SkyHorse

Mighty MouseThis is a typical Apple story. They took the ordinary mouse, removed the wires and created perhaps the most usable mouse in the world. And there was much rejoice… for a while. Yes, because maintenance as everyone knows will make or break your mouse no matter how well designed it was. And that’s when you, ladies and gentlemen, come across the Apple consumer’s frustration that you should and indeed cannot take any of their products apart and their mouse, mighty or not, is no exception.

The issue in question here is their “scroll” ball on top of the mouse, neatly designed to never be removed again. After a few months of usage you will surely start banging it in frustration because it simply stops working.
Youtube videos will show you that you can take the mouse apart, if you want to have to use super-glue to put it back together and risk cutting the delicate internal circuits in the process.
But as my mother always says: small solutions for big problems, so I ventured into finding how to deal with it. And I found it: simply turn it off, rub the mouse against your trousers (with the scroll facing down, of course!) for a minute or so, and voilà: it works as good as new.
If only Apple had written this in the manual…

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