Update, bought the iPhone Scale, or iScale as some might call it!
It's good if you're not going to be measuring anything past 10ths of grams, and if it's anything extremely important I wouldn't trust it on 10ths of grams either. It's perfect for herbs, spices, and food items though that are weighed in grams, ounces, and pounds.
The fake look a like box it comes in is fantastic. It has a plastic mold to hold the iphone scale and instructions to put on top of it when it's sealed in its plastic container. It looks exactly like a new iphone!
The iPhone scale is an extremely slick way to hide your digital pocket scale. The high quality scale has similar dimensions to the iPhone, as well as looks like it from the outside. However, upon taking off the lid you have your average pocket scale capable of weighing in four modes:
- 1000g
- 35.274oz
- 32.154ozt
- 643.1dwt
To top out the stealthiness of the iPhone scale, you can put it in a seemingly brand new box. An iPhone built to look like a scale is one thing, but putting it in a brand new iPhone box takes the sneakiness up to a whole new level.
The scale itself is made by a seasoned company - Weighmax. They've been making quality digital scales for over 10 years. The
iPhone scale is one of their most popular selling scales.
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Mass visiting multiple links on a certain web page is something I do often. When browsing websites like Reddit I often middle click the links ahead of time so that they open in a new tab which can be reviewed later. With this extension you can open, download, or even copy the URLs to the clipboard.
To use this simple extension, simply highlight every URL you want to open on the page. Next Multi Links will execute the action you have chosen in the settings area. I just checked open in new tab, it can do many things. If there are multiple files on a page which requiring downloading you could highlight them and switch the action to download. This will begin to download the highlighted files all at once.
There are a variety of plugins that do similar things, but this one is compatible with all versions of Firefox. This includes the nightly builds if you're hungry for the newest and best software available.
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I recently switched to Google Chrome and had just enough time to use it to download the beta copy of Opera 10.5. The Opera development team did a fantastic job with the user interface of the new build, but that's just half of the good news. It's also now faster than Google Chrome making it the fastest browser in the world.
The new interface of Opera looks and feels like Google Chrome, which to me is excellent. There are no more bulky tool bars, no bar on the bottom, simply two bars. One of them is for the tabs and the exit buttons, the other is for the navigation buttons and the address bar. The progress bar is built in to the address bar instead of on the bottom of the window.
A lot of time was spent integrating Opera in to Windows 7, but the outcome looks amazing. It utilizes Aero's Glass flawlessly and looks a lot better than it does on Windows XP. The options men, book marks, widgets, and other things are located under one button in the top left corner. Windows 7 users can hover over opera in the task bar to see a preview of each tab. Hovering over that will give you a bigger picture of the browser window. You can also utilize Opera's speed dial which can be used by right clicking Opera in the task bar and clicking your web site of choice.
Another new feature seen previously on other competing browsers is private browsing mode. It's slightly more advanced than the Chrome and Firefox private modes. You can open a separate tab that's private rather than putting the whole browser or window in private mode. You can also make a new window as well.
The speed of the new 10.5 build is incredible, making Opera the fastest browser in the world; easily. I opened the same comment threads in Google's Chrome and Opera and the new 10.5 build consistently loaded pages at double the rate of Chrome. When Chrome first came out I was amazed at how fast it parsed Javascript and loaded websites. After trying Opera I'm just outright amazed at its ability to parse web sites at lighting fast speeds. It loads even the longest Reddit and Digg threads in a second or less! Want to know the best part about it? Opera now supports Adblock!
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Back when Google Chrome first came out I was amazed at how fast it parsed Javascript but deterred from using it due to lack of mainly extensions. I've now decided to take the plunge for a few different reasons. My favorite two plugins Adblock plus, and Autopager. Autopager is an extension that we first saw on Firfox that automatically starts loading the second page of websites containing multiple page. It inserts it right below the first page, saving you time and effort when scrolling through large amounts of data. It works for a variety of sites including most major ones that you use every day.
Along with the speed Chrome provides, there was one other feature that I liked about it. If it loads a corrupt plugin or a plugin that crashes like flash tends to do, it does not bring down your whole browser. Instead it pops up a messaging telling you a plugin has failed.
I think installing and removing plugins is also much easier to do in Google Chrome compared to most other browsers. When hitting the install link, there is no question that times down, download time seems to be relatively slow, most of the time it's instant. However, the best feature is the fact that you don't have to shut down your browser to add or remove programs. This drove me crazy because I use music streaming from Pandora, so I'd have to shut down my music and change songs every time I installed or removed a plugin. That last part did change when Pandora began resuming songs from where you left off, which was a much needed feature.
Finally, the user interface is a lot better in Chrome. There is much less clutter on the browser itself, allowing maxium room to see the website. The pugin admin panel and the downloader, as well as a few other things open in new tabs as opposed to seperate windows, which I also find awesome. This stops the browser from having more than one window open in almost all circumstances.
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From reddit to blogs to reputable news websites everyone has been predicting the failure of Apple's iPad. I've even read ridiculous things such as the iPad is a step towards all personal computers being locked down in the future. I think these people are vastly missing the point of who the iPad market is intended for. Many people only use their web browser on their computer and don't have a need to learn anything more. They don't want to deal with spyware, they don't want to deal with viruses, and they especially don't want to deal with upgrading system drivers. So why shouldn't they buy an easy to use computer that has only basic tasks like web browsing and email? They would spend a lot less money having people fix their PC and probably enjoy using It a lot more. No more pop up dialog boxes, no more setting up wireless internet and creating networks. Just a simple easy to use interface requiring no user input to run smoothly. Think of how popular Macs are for being simple and easy to use, this is just a step above that.
Another argument that is common is that it has a lack of flash support. Flash is designed for desktop PCs most of the time. You're not going to have the same user experience as you would on a desktop or laptop because this is a touch screen. For the most part applications would have to be redesigned in order to have a pleasant user experience. Another reason for not having flash is Apple doesn't want to support a dying standard. Html 5 is definitely the future and Adobe Silverlight and the likes aren't going to last that much longer. As well as not being designed for phones, flash is often resource intensive and also freezes. I rather a blue box on an iPad than a frozen device.
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