I just wanted to take some time to talk about some new web technologies I've been getting into. I officially set my default browser to Chrome yesterday. There are a ton of things about it that I love but the final feature was the drag and drop feature for Gmail, which always you to drag files from your desktop to the attachments section. Google has implemented this by taking advantage of HTML 5 functionality. Right now only Chrome 4, and Firefox 3.6 are supported. One thing that annoys is Chrome doesn't support the CSS @font-face tag, I know it's nothing big but just a pet peeve of mine. The other thing that drove me to Chrome for using it on the development side is an extension called Speed Tracer for testing website performance and I'm loving it.

If you are using a Mac you need to start using Cloud. It is similar to DropBox in some ways, but way simpler to use. Basically it is a place to store documents, archives, music and videos. You can simply drag a file to the toolbar icon and it will automatically upload the file and put a shortened url in your clip board. It even gets easier you can set it to automatically upload screen shots, and you can use a hot key to upload whatever files you have selected. It will also shorten and save your bookmarks get for Twitter and Facebook posts. Something that is helpful is it will track the amount of clicks each link gets, which means you can track, which posts people find more interesting. Oh yea it does have an API, so when I dive into that more I'll write about it.

Finally (and I'm sure everyone is tried of hearing about it) is the iPad, I've made my mind up to get it. I find it funny so many people can't say why they want it or how it's going to "revolutionize the web as we know it", so I figured I'd list my reasons realizing that me getting it is a little overkill since I'll have the entire line of Apple products.

- I have tons of ebooks and I HATE reading them in Acrobat reader, I just need to hold something...

- The iBook Store not only am I code junky, I'm nerd book junk...

- Note taking - Now strangely I feel I have to write notes down rather them type them. Plus I love to doodle. With the iPad Stylus and WritePad I can do that and save it to one place.

- Time/Task Management - maybe instead of heavy note taking I just want to delegate my task. With HiTask already on the iPad I'm all set. That is until we(Polarfin) release Kahewt.

- Blogging - I'm hoping this motivate me to blog more often because I often find myself on the go and thinking of something to write about but I have to wait till I get home. I was going to build an iPhone app but the screen is so small it's almost pointless. However for the iPad I think it would be awesome.

- My age old excuse... I'll find something to develop on it.

Well there you have it my delusional reasoning for my future purchase. One thing I haven't seen but I'm hoping to see it soon is an iPad app for Cloud. Maybe something I can look into their API to whip something up.

Appcelerator has released the newest version for Titanium, version 1.0! If you don't know what Appcelerator is you can check out a post I wrote on polarfin or check out their website.

Along with this new version they have also released new training as well. If you visit the Appcelerator University you can sign up to hold a meet up and get free t-shirts. Once you sign up you can get a presentation to show at the meet up, an material to go over. They suggest doing a one hour introduction to get everyone familiar with the the tools.

Next they suggest having you build an app from the ground up. Their Kitchen sink app will help familiarize you with a bunch of the tools and API's they use.