davidkaneda:

A lot of my friends, colleagues, and flat-out heros have released some excellent books recently. I’ve mentioned a few of them, but I think it would be fun to run a giveaway and help spread some of this fine knowledge around the community. Here are the books I am giving away:

1. Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and Javascript, Jonathan Stark
   An excellent introduction to creating web applications on the iPhone. I’ve watched this book grow over the past few months and I can say with confidence that it’s ready to become a definitive reference for creating iPhone web apps. In addition to covering the basics, the book also includes a full chapter on jQTouch, my jQuery plugin for iPhone development.
2. Designing With Web Standards, Jeffrey Zeldman
   For anyone getting into web development, Zeldman’s DWWS continues to serve as the ultimate introduction to web standards and best practices. I’ve trained a fair amount of budding designers, and this book is always first on my “required reading” list. Now in it’s third edition, the book continues to stay fresh and relevant.
3. Mobile Design and Development, Brian Fling
   Brian’s a good friend of mine and colleague at pinch/zoom. His presentations on mobile design are beautiful, informative, and comprehensive. This book promises to be a wealth of insight into mobile design practices and industry trends.
4. Crush It, Gary Vaynerchuk
   For anyone who hasn’t had the benefit of seeing Gary speak live, he is the creator of Wine Library TV and one of the most inspirational speakers on social media around. Crush It is not just about doing what you love and making great money while doing it, but shows just how accessible success is in today’s web culture.
5. Rework, 37Signals
   Readers of this blog will note: 37Signals is one of my favorite companies around—it is an overwhelming business success built on principles like communicating clearly and charging for value. Their previous book, Getting Real, remains the authoritative guide on building web apps. This one, set to release early next year, will speak purely to business management—and will doubtlessly be full of exceptional advice.

To participate, just leave a reply below with the number corresponding to the book you want most, a quick note about what type of content you’d like to see more of on this blog, and your Twitter username. I’ll select winners randomly at the end of the week. Also, make sure you’re following me on Twitter so I can DM the details to the winners.

So, which book would you like?

I actually prefer to use PwnageTool, but Mike has a fantastic round-up of Jailbreak apps and tweaks that make jailbreaking worthwhile.

More SSB Goodness with Instapaper.

If you read my last two tips, on accessing 1Password and Transmission remotely, you’d know that I’m a big fan of SSBs, Site-Specific Browsers.

In those tips I mentioned using Prism on Windows, which works fine, but today I discovered that my favorite Windows browser, Chrome, actually supports SSBs out of the box, and because it uses the Webkit engine, in my opinion, it looks a bit nicer.  In particular, 1Password seemed to have issues with the numbers in the table on the left lining up properly, but renders just fine with Chrome.

And if you already have Chrome installed, why not, right?

And with Chrome it’s reeeeeeeeeeellllly easy.  Just navigate to the page you want to make an SSB out of and click the little page icon in the upper-right-hand corner.  You’ll see “Create application shortcuts…”:

Click that and you’ll get a pop-up:

And you’re done!

Interesting…looks similar to Cloud.app.  I like the Custom Domain name idea for short URLs though.

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Oh, just kidding!  We still have all your data!  This whole thing seems verrrry fishy.