Note to self. I really should read the change logs or new feature lists for applications properly when new versions come out.
Firefox is still the best browser out there, we all know that, but some of the little features and touches that these guys add are quite simply amazing.
Everyone using Firefox 2 should know that you can drag your tabs to re-organise where they are listed from left to right which is a powerful feature in itself. From an organisational point of view though I quite often work with an Active Collab tab first, my SideJob account open next and maybe my delicious account after with whatever I am reading thereafter. Occasionally I need to move these around if I start browsing something and then get down to work which and this feature is handy and a time saver.
(I couldn’t resist, while I am on a roll I thought I’d post again….)
It would appear, and rightly so, that Google has remembered its informal corporate motto, “Don’t be evil.” – well with a little help from the blogspere at least. It seems that someone’s 20% turned into helping us all with tips (read prime advertising) at the top of certain search results on Google. Specifically targeting searches for software or services that Google has a competing product they handily suggested their software above the number 1 search result.
One post in the months of November and December and we are already 9 days into January with nothing of note! Well I promise it’s nothing personal and to those who are still sticking around, I salute you.
Sometimes something you enjoy has to take a back seat when work gets a bit on top and at the moment I am juggling working 11 or 12 hour days with having a social life. It doesn’t quite fit together too well but it needs to be done.
Its akin to pulling out your finger nails with pliers but finally I have done it. When your computer takes 5 mins from boot to get to a point where you can use it and you have to click ok three times through errors you know its time to reformat your hard disk.
USB2 had turned back into USB1, I was getting read / write errors all the time and little messages about software I had never heard of. Sick to the back teeth of searching for adware or virus scanning I had to give in. Trouble is I had about 20 DVD’s of backups (general non vital stuff) to do first, but with a Saturday and Sunday spare I wrote off my weekend!!
