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i was chatting with my boss at Portero, and he found it amusing that the iPod app has such a prominent place on my iPhone. he said he'd rather have easy access to his calendar than his music. it's interesting to see how everyone arranges their apps to suit their own preferences. after playing with my phone a while, these are the apps that have made the cut and the ordering that works for me. i plan to write more on the apps later, so check back!

what does your phone look like?

the home screen

these are my go-to apps. they're generally grouped by row. notable players include transportation and task management apps.

more iPhone screenshots after the jump.

One of the most amazing and annoying things in Drupal 6 is the menu system. Thanks to a bunch of JavaScript magick, you can drag menu items around to reorder them, create submenus, and so forth. Unfortunately, once you've moved a menu item it no longer alphabetizes itself. If you want things to alphabetize themselves again, you are left with two options:

You can manually alphabetize the menu or submenu every time you change things or add a new menu item, forever and ever and ever. If you're not too keen on that idea, you can edit each of the menu items and reset their weight to 0, which makes them alphabetize again.

Neither option is ideal, so I created a third: this bookmarklet will set the weight of all menu items to 0 in one fell swoop. It also works for resetting block sort order, if you wanted to do that for some reason.

grab the bookmarklet after the jump.

I've been using Google's "Edit Search Results" since I blogged about it yesterday, and I have a couple further observations.

Read about Google's social search experiment after the jump.

I Googled something a minute ago and noticed that my SERP looked a little different:

In particular, check out those three grey icons. They appear next to every result on the page, but there isn't any noticeable indication why they're there. So I clicked one :)

The link turned green, which was fun. But the most exciting thing was that it moved to the top of the page—with a nice, slick animation. Apparently Google is letting me customize the results of my search.

Check out Google's editable search result experiment after the jump.

if you don't listen to CSS, you should. here's a taste to get you started:

now go download their latest single. for free.

Every once in a while someone asks me what cool software they should install on their computer. Invariably, I say something like "check out the OS X tag on my blog."

Apparently I've been lying to everyone, because I looked at the software categories on my blog the other day and realized that I haven't been posting much there at all. So I decided to do something about it:

Introducing Technophobe, the future home of my tech rants and recommendations. I've started out with a really sweet Mac menu extra called Jumpcut.

More features, more reviews, more hotness coming soon. Check back for a regular dose of nifty applications. Subscribe to the site feeds. Enjoy :)

in case you're wondering, i'm a huge nerd. there's a good chance you've already noticed, but if not, you should check out this amazing tag cloud. it's a visualization of my online bookmarking and browsing habits—courtesy of wordle:

also, if you're not already using del.icio.us, you should be.

we're going to set a world record! download firefox 3 on it's release date to do your part (that's tuesday the 17th, if you haven't been paying attention)

i've been using firefox 3 on os x for a while, and i have to say it's amazing. doesn't crash (as often). doesn't have memory leaks. it's way faster. and it feels like a native mac app now. i imagine all you windows users will see similar coolness, but i can't speak from experience there...

i'm digging this song. ada covers maps by the yeah yeah yeahs. nice, mellow, and really rad.

dan from todaywasawesome just asked me to help him with a weighted randomization function in php. i thought my solution was cool, if a bit simplistic. like everything else i want to keep around, i'm posting it in my blag. enjoy!