Horrible, Unusable, Ridiculous, Completely Idiotic, Waste of Space
Today, while testing out Windows 7, I felt that it would be beneficial to put some stuff on my desktop. I have 2 montiors and might aswell keep some stuff on there to use it up. I go, look at the pre-given gadgets, and what do I find? An RSS Gadget. Not just any RSS Gadget, the only RSS Gadget that comes installed with Windows 7. And not only the only RSS Gadget installed with Windows 7, a RSS Gadget installed with Windows 7 that it tied to the horrible, unusable, ridiculous, completely idiotic, waste of space we call Internet Explorer. So I decide, well I don’t want to use the RSS Gadget installed with Windows 7 that is tied to the horrible unusable, ridiculous, completely idiotic, waste of space we call Internet Explorer, so I decided to search online for RSS Gadgets. All I found were RSS gadgets that linked to specific blogs, none of which I really wanted to read. (more…)
Janurary, Month Review.
January, The second month of http://chacha102.com. Let’s see first how it went for us, and then highlight some posts, and then I’ll point out some cool articles I just recently found.
Stats
Total Views: 1,507
Busiest Day: 119, Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
Busiest Day in January: 87, January 23rd, 2009 (When I posted “Anyone use Twitter Favorites?“)
Average Views per Day: 38
Preceding Months Views: 354
Current Months Views: 1,153
Percent Increase: 325.70%
Overall, more views, probably because I post more and some people actually know about the site. But, in order to increase the awareness that I do infact have a blog, I will begin posting these stories to Twitter. I have been forgetting to do that, but it is probably my biggest outlet, with 400+ followers. Just a note: Everything is also fed through Friendfeed, and into my FF Twitter account: http://twitter.com/tandmnews
Next up, Posts. (more…)
Google Chrome, 2.0'd
A lot of people I know use Google Chrome. Whether it is becasue they want to use the latest stuff, they like the UI, or they are Google Fanboys, a good chunk of them rely on the new browser. Well, not to be outdone by not-so-tech-savy-people, I’ve decided that I am going to be MORE bleeding edge, and brag to them about features that they don’t have. I know, I’m mean. So, in order to do this, I decided to try the… wait for it:
Google Chrome Alpha Release Channel
I know, its a really long name. Oh wells.
Google Releases updates through channels. Everyone is subscribed to a channel, and Google Update listens to that channel to see if there is an update that needs to be applied. You can change your Google Chrome channel by reading this. You can choose either, Alpha, Beta, or Stable, Stable being the public release version. Each one gives you different, more advanced, more buggy features. (I.E: Alpha is buggier than Beta, which is buggier than Stable.)
So what is new in Google Chrome 2.0?
Less Apps, More Focus
So, in reformatting my new computer, I have decided to not use as many applications. One thing I found is that my computer built up a lot of junk over time. That made is very annoying to use, because I had so many applications. Well, this time I am going to install very few applications. I am going to see if I can go ALL Feburary with the same applications that I started with. Here are my guidelines:
Shareable Desktop
Wouldn’t it be cool if whatever one of your computers you worked at you had the same files, all ready for you to use on any of your computers? Well, I have found a way to make Dropbox be my Desktop, so anything I put on it is synced with the web, along with my other computers. The best part about this is that it isn’t cloud computing alone. You always have a copy of the files on your hard drive, so if Dropbox goes down, you don’t. Here’s how we do it. (more…)
