Say NO to Microsoft

Well, I've been doing a little research. Turns out, it's not just me that doesn't care for Microsoft. I found a cool page that talks about how the dominate about every technology market you can think of:

Just Say No to Microsoft

Plus, why get a PC when you can get a Mac Mini for $550? Or, CompUSA is having a special right now, you can get a Mac Mini, plus a keyboard and mouse, and a 17" LCD monitor all for $700. Yeah. It's pretty sweet.

See the Mac Mini

Keep up with the revolution! (Against Microsoft you know :)

iTunes

Hey, are you still using Windows Media Player? Yeah yeah; I know. They just came out with Media Player 10 and all but, have you seen iTunes? They have it for PC's now! It's about a bazillion times better! It's a lot easier to create play-lists. You can create a smart play-list: All you do is enter the artist or album, and it creates a play-list with everything you specified in it! So, all I have to do to create a play-list for Boston, is select "New Smart Play-list", type in Boston, and that's it! It takes anything and everything by Boston and puts it in a play-list! It's pretty sweet. It has a cool visualizer too. You can also burn MP3 CD's. I haven't tried that yet so I don't know how it works. Plus, it has the spiffy Apple style interface. It's better than any of the skins for WMP (Windows Media Player).

Also, if you had a bunch of music on your computer with WMP, like I did, all you do is start up iTunes and it automaticly imports all your .wma files into MPEG-4 (Apple) format. Seeing as I had sooo much music, it took quite awhile to import everything but, hey! It's better than having to copy everything all over again!

So, take my word for it. Leave WMP in the dust:

Download iTunes

Firefox Google Toolbar

Okay, so I was doing some news browsing the other day and I found a article about the new Google Toolbar 3.0. The article was asking why they haven't come out with a toolbar for Firefox. I'll tell you why: It doesn't need it! The only reason Internet Explorer needs it is because it doesn't have any built in search box, and, if you don't have SP2, it doesn't block pop-ups! I was looking on browsehappy.com and they say that IE is very unsafe. I don't use it unless I have to. I use Firefox all the time. I tried Opera for awhile but it's kind of annoying. Being stuck in tabbed browsing. Firefox hides the tab bar if you only have one page open. It's pretty cool.

So, if you're still using old Internet Explorer, join the rest of us:
Get Firefox

YANB - Yet Another New Blog

Well, it probably won't be updated very often but, I've started another blog. It's a blog of pictures I've taken with my digital camera. You can look at it here. There is currently only one post but, hey! You have to start somewhere, right?

Blogging

Well, hmm. I haven't really been keeping up with this blog very well have I? I don't have an excuse this time; I haven't been busy at all. It seems these past few weeks my social life has died. Everything I was involved in ended for the summer. Plus, there's nobody in my age in this neighborhood. Oh well.

There is one thing to report though: I now am the proud owner of a digital camera! It's an HP Photosmart M307. 3.2 megapixels, 15X total zoom, yeah. It's pretty sweet. It's definitely not the cream of the crop but, I don't need that. I got it in a special at Radio Shack. Here's all the stuff that came in the box:

• HP Photosmart M307 camera
• HP Photosmart 7760 photo printer
• 2 ink cartridges
• 20 sheets of photo paper
• 64 MB Secure Digital memory stick
• USB cable
• All the driver and image management software

All for only $200! I was ecstatic! Actually, I still am. :)

Well, that's all for now. I'll try to post more!