About four days a week I go to the co-op and pick up food over the lunch hour. And every time I’m standing at the checkout they ask me if I’d like to ‘round up my bill for charity’ and every time I say yes, not because it makes me feel good to give to charity but because I would feel like an asshole saying ‘no’. Today, my bill was $8.02 and they asked me to ‘round up for charity’ and for the first time in 5 months I said ‘no’ and for the first time I actually did feel good about myself.
The dream of parking my moped amongst a line of big motorcycles = realized (Taken with Instagram at The Joint)
What is this?! (Taken with Instagram at Washington Avenue Bridge)
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On a good day I love the challenge of building a web page that renders in everything, if that challenge didn’t exist I wouldn’t have a job. On bad days I think ‘screw ‘em’ if they want to use an out of date browser then they get what they deserve. There are so many amazing things we can do in web nowadays and those old browsers tie our hands and force us to dumb down the code or use patches and it’s ugly. I like clean, simple code. Anyways. I’m really making this post to keep track of where I browser test.
1. Litmus
I love litmus, it’s worth every penny. Amazing for html emails and OK for websites.
Pros: Beautiful Interface, quick clear results
Cons: It doesn’t have the older browsers, it test on: Chrome 18 (mac/windows) FF 12 (mac/windows) IE 6,7,8,9 (windows) Opera 11.6 (windows) Iphone, Safari 5 (mac)
2. Netrenderer
Pros: It’s free, it has every version of explorer you could wish for
Cons: It cuts off the bottom of the site (is IE rendering my code that way or is your screenshot cut off?! I need to know!)
3. Browsershots
Pros: It’s free to a point*, it has every version of everything you could ever want to test (and browsers no one would ever waste their time testing)
Cons: You get 120 free screenshots/day then you have to pay. You’d be surprised how easy that is to do. Then it’s $30/month. That’s OK by me, it’s nice to have access to EVERYTHING. It has a gross interface and it’s time consuming to choose your browsers each time (I suspect you can pick your preferences but I haven’t looked into it)
And there you have it, my go-to sites. I should also mention:
I’m intrigued by browsercam but I’ve never tried it.
I tried spoon.net. I work on a mac so I had to use virtual PC. By the time I got everything set up and tried a dozen times to get FF 3.5 to open it told me I had used up my free 2 minutes and had to pay. Since I work on mac I gave up. I love the idea, when they go to mac I will revisit.
I have to wonder, am I missing any good ones (specifically free good ones that have old versions of FF and Safari)?
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April errr May showers…
I really wish I could leave comments on everyone’s posts.
Taken with instagram
Cryptocartographer: Your Scooter is Fucking Mass Ugly -
It’s like cryptocartographer can see into my mind.
Mopeds are sexy, tiny motorized two-wheel sex machines that smear sex appeal up and down any street. They are always owned by cool people who understand irony but also understand that riding on a moped is fun. I like to ride mine because it is a smile factory. Smile factories can never be…
The answer has been no for too many days in a row.
The hospital in which my grandma is living her last few days allowed us to bring her cat in to visit her. - Imgur
awww… so sweet.
What Secret Could Ruin Your Life if It Came Out? -
I hate when I come across this stuff at work, it becomes downright impossible to work.