I’m Now using Chrome
Well, I’ve decided to make the move. I have switched from Firefox to Google Chrome. I’ve always had Chrome on my system, as someone who does websites, you have several. On my system, I have IE, Chrome, Opera, Firefox, & Safari. In years gone by, that was a requirement, as you needed to check how your sites looked in different browsers. Going into 2012, that’s less of an issue. For the most part they don’t have the egregiously different displays that they used to. Still, old habits die hard. Recently, I’ve started having slowdown problems with Firefox. It was’t awful, but I was still dealing with some long standing issues hanging around the browser for awhile. Sometimes it would just stall out, and when you quit, it’s...
Read MoreSteve Jobs RIP
Steve Jobs died today. Here’s some news on it. It certainly adds weight as to why he didn’t make an appearance at the iPhone 4S presser yesterday. I didn’t write either of these two remarks, but I echo them exactly. Thanks to Chris F for these.. “For a man I never met, Steve Jobs had an undeniable and unmeasurable impact on my life, my career, and my daily affairs. Rest in peace.” “Saw the Steve Jobs news when I loaded up apple.com on my iPad to get info on the iPhone 4S and iOS5. That says so much about his impact.” This one below is mine, though. The filename of the image on apple.com of Steve Jobs’ RIP msg was “t_hero.jpg“. Tells you what someone there thinks of...
Read MoreFix the Add-on Bar Location in Firefox 4 Beta 8
I’ve been using the Firefox 4 beta builds for awhile now, and previous to an hour ago, I haven’t had any problems with them. Beta 8 though posed a new one. Apparently in Beta 7, they removed the “status bar”, and replaced it with the “Add-on Bar”. Which doesn’t bother me so much, although it did take some time to train my eyes to look up top for where a link is going when I hover over it. That used to be on the bottom. But Beta 8 really screwed things up. They changed it so that the icons that have always been on the lower right of the browser were now on the lower left. They’ve been on the right side since this code was in it’s ancient days Netscape Communicator. BAH! Look at what I mean. It...
Read MoreHow to change the play count number in iTunes
It’s been awhile since I posted some sort of tech/computer thing on this blog, but when I was using this little tip myself today, I thought I’d share it. I can’t remember how I happened upon this, but I wanted to pass on the info. NOTE: This is for Windows. I have no idea how you’d do this on a Mac. One thing I’ve noticed about iTunes is that not everything is easily changeable. For instance the play counts. There’s been times where I’ve accidentally deleted an album with playcounts, and wanted to get back what I had. Or I’ve imported a new version of an album, and I wanted to transfer over my playcounts, but you can’t do that in iTunes itself without resorting to playing the track the number of times...
Read MoreGoodbye Compuserve
Just read this morning that as of yesterday, Compuserve Classic ceased to be. That’s a major milestone for a service that had been around for a very long time. Now I didn’t realize the old Compuserve still was operational, that was a surprise. Anyway, Compuserve and I go way back. When I got my first modem in 1986 (a 1200 bps card for my Apple //e computer), the first place I dialed was Compuserve. As I recall, I ran up quite the bill that first month – something like $400. I was addicted to online stuff immediately. As time went on, I was a member of the Sci-Fi forums, and when I got hired a few years later by Apogee, the gaming forums, too. I was all over the place there. And yeah, if you’re a Compuserve old timer, you pronounce...
Read MoreF-Secure Anti Virus Question
I’ve been looking at using this as my anti virus software. However, my research tells me that it doesn’t get along well at all with Zone Alarm Firewall. So much so that it will refuse to install as long as ZA is installed. I also found out that ZA itself won’t install if FS is installed, either. Anyone reading this using F-Secure 2006 or 2007? If so, what are you doing for a firewall solution if you can’t use it and ZA, short of using F-A’s own firewall software in their higher up package? Anyone?
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