Category: Web work

These days, most of my work is very related to the online world. Building web sites, reviewing web applications, integrating with web services, coordinating people who are far away from each other, etc. Whenever I find a new tool or service or an innovative, interesting idea about working online, I share it in this category.

Am I Responsive? Preview!

Am I Responsive? – this is a brilliant tool!  You can type the URL you are interested in, click “Go!” button and see the preview of the URL on four different screen sizes – large desktop, medium desktop, tablet, and smartphone.  No waiting in queue, no screenshots – all is live, scrollable and instant.  There is also a bookmarklet which you can add to your browser and then preview any page with a single click.  You can even rearrange the preview screens by dragging them around.  And on top of all of that, even the localhost URLs work – the killer feature for any web developer!

Upgrading to Skype 4.3 on Linux

Today Skype failed to log me in on one of my Fedora Linux laptops.  That, I guess, is a part of the force upgrade to Skype 4.3.  While doing so, I came across two issues:

  1. Download Skype page is broken in Google Chrome.  After choosing the Linux distribution nothing happens.  Switching to Firefox helps.
  2. The new, upgraded Skype crashes about 2 seconds after a successful login.  When started from the command line, a simple Aborted message is displayed.  Nothing more.  (Maybe because I have core dumps disabled).  After a bit of Googling around, all you need to do is rename your ~/.Skype/ folder into something else and restart Skype.  This will lose your history, some settings, and edited contact names.  But the Skype will work and your contacs will still show up in correct groups.

No “thank you” to you, Microsoft.  Huge thank you to you, Google.  Once again you saved the day.