Looks like the debugger is missing, and there’s no CSS or HTML editing, though you can “run” blocks of CSS (and JavaScript of course).

I love that Chrome uses Safari’s WebKit engine. I love that the version it uses is more advanced than that which Safari uses, so you not only get to use fancy CSS3-esque features like box-shadow: and border-radius:, but it features the improved Web Inspector.

But I find it rather silly to show rounded corners and drop shadows if you have this problem (Safari also shown for comparison):

Safari 3.0	Chrome 1.0

Remember, Chrome and Safari use the same layout engine. This bug only shows up when you use box-shadow: and border-radius: together .. in Chrome.

When IE & FireFox can’t show either the shadows or rounded corners, they at least fail gracefully.

If anyone has found a way to make Chrome behave, I’d love to hear about it. I’d like to be able to recommend people to a Windows browser (other than the awkward-on-that-platform Safari) in which to view my work with optimal presentation.

The idea is that you can type something like ‘esv gal 5 1’ or ‘wiki cumberland valley’ and be taken to the appropriate page, bypassing several pages you’d normally have to navigate through, like search results.

I was having trouble today with the next-to-last one on that list: the “I’m Feeling Lucky” search. But it looks like they fixed it while I was writing this post. Unless I clicked the actual “I’m Feeling Lucky” button on their front page, Google was just taking me to a search results page, even if I pasted in the google.com url I was redirected to for a split second.

I save a lot of time using these shortcuts. If you don’t use them already, why don’t you start now?

Twitter users near Greenville, Spartanburg, or Anderson, SC should subscribe to it.

And in case you want to subscribe some other way (RSS, email, etc.), or make your own customized version, you can visit the actual Yahoo! Pipe.

It seems to work quite nicely; we’re apparently having a Freeze Watch tonight. Who knew?

So let’s do a price comparison of some music old and new:

I should point out that I’m motivated by three factors here: price, convenience, and audio quality. iTunes and Amazon MP3 are convenient, but a used CD still wins out in price and audio quality. Amazon’s 256KB/s encoding beats iTunes’ 128KB/s, and when iTunes does offer 256KB/s DRM-free downloads, they’re always more expensive than Amazon’s.

And I much prefer having physical media waiting in my closet in case I run over or otherwise destroy my iPod. That said, for any quick impulse purchases I do allow myself, I think I’ll go to Amazon before buying from iTunes.

#mydiv {
    background: url(wonderful.png);
    _background: url(wonderful.gif); /* IE rule overrides */
}

In IE7, however, Microsoft fixed that bug, and now the parser treats _named properties as unique, in accordance with CSS 2.1. The result being that you can still use the underscore hack to target IE6 only with a rule, which is useful for when you’re working around some other bug that was fixed in IE7.

But what if you need to hack your CSS in IE7? You can use a period (.) instead of an underscore to prefix your property names. This method can be used to target both IE7 and IE6, or just IE7 with some creative jiggling:

/* targeting IE7 only */
#mydiv {
    margin-top: 10px;
    .margin-top: 20px; /* affects both IE6 & IE7 */
    _margin-top: 10px; /* reapply first rule to IE6 */
}

The period doesn’t validate, unfortunately. But neither does the underscore, for that matter, even though it’s allowed under the W3C spec. And your best bet for future-proofing is still conditional comments. But for the moment — which means until some future version of IE changes it — this seems like a relatively clean way to work around the layout issues still present in IE7.

I just missed a call, and a moment later I received an email with the spoken text of the message in the subject line. Very cool.

(I still entered Engadget’s iPhone giveaway anyway.)

More cool stuff coming soon. Like repairing the layout on non-front pages, IE compatibility, and some small software projects. (Oooh.)

Well, it’s never been the most reliable thing in the world, and it’s not very fast, either, but the last time I changed my mobile plan I added Cingular’s unlimited data package for $20/month (a steal in my opinion). Previously I have racked up large charges when I am traveling and without the Net.

That all changed and became Very Inconvenient last week when my internal Bluetooth adapter failed, and no amount of cajoling, PRAM zapping, or PMU resetting would fix it. Fortunately, I had a Belkin USB Bluetooth adapter lying around, and merely needed to find the box it was packed in.

But I was still annoyed at the dropped connections (to the phone) and low speeds that I was getting from Cingular. I’d been threatening to get a Verizon BroadbandAccess card for a while. So on Wednesday, after wasting time trying to do my laundry at a laundromat and not being able to work while it spun, I decided it was Time.

I ran around to nearly every wireless store in Easley (Cingular, Alltel, Nextel, Sprint, SunCom, and several independent dealers. Nobody had a card that I could buy and use today, until - right as I was wishing there was a real Verizon store in Easley - one appeared in front of me that I’d forgotten about.

They had a PC5740 card that they sold me for $99 with a $59.99/month plan. Not too shabby. Pity it didn’t work with my Powerbook when I got out to the car.

Leaving my laundry churning in the laundromat (an arguably unwise thing to do), I drove to the nearest free Wi-Fi 10 minutes away in Jennifer’s driveway to find that EVDOinfo.com had already anticipated my exact plight. They had instructions for making the PC5740 work with a Mac, but it was a hack, and most of the card’s features wouldn’t be enabled. They insisted that the Kyocera KPC650 was the only card that a Powerbook user should have.

They were right. Apparently, Verizon has just recently released Mac software drivers for the KPC650 only. Apple had written even better drivers for the PC5220, but that card is no longer supported by anyone.

So I returned the PC5740 and had them order me a KPC650, which they kindly offered to FedEx to me overnight. When it arrived the next day and I installed the VZAccess software, I was a little disappointed that it didn’t have a slick little Menu Extra like Apple’s implementation, so I hacked together a quick Applescript-driven Butler menu (using GUI Scripting).

Apple’s PC5220 Driver

My Butler-made menu

I’ve been getting decent speeds with the NationalAccess network in Easley, but apparently BroadbandAccess is coming to Greenville next year.

My NationalAccess speeds (Easley)

My BroadbandAccess speeds (Baltimore)

The VZAccess software is alright, but the installer created a Broadband/NationalAccess location, and switches to it whenever you click Connect. I’d rather all of my connectivity devices be available in my Automatic location. So far I haven’t been brave enough to try changing it around.

The NationalAccess speeds end up being fast enough for me to share over Airport to Jennifer’s Powerbook, which will be nice after she moves out of her house next month. We’ll be canceling her cable internet, which means we won’t be able to leech off of it from her parents’ house anymore.