Sunday, September 7, 2008

Chrome?

I'm a bit disappointed in Google. Chrome's beta is only for Windows for now, and their excuse is that they started development for Windows first (if they were going to make it multi-platformed, you'd think they would have released all three at once)

But I tried it on Windows, and it looks... Simplistic at best. I haven't seen much performance increase, though since I was on Windows I guess I kept looking for the speediness of my Mac. It also has its own little GUI, but the address bar was pretty neat in being able to fetch website names before you even go to the site. I still like Firefox's "Awesome Bar", which displays the titles of the pages instead of just the URL.

Safari is great for the Mac with it being so integrated with the rest of the computer, I like that when I download DMG (disk image) files it automagically mounts them so I don't have to do it, and it also extracts archives and deletes the original archive for me. Just a nice time saver =] I don't like how it switches tabs though, you have to hold Cmd + Shift + ] (Cmd + }) which is annoying since I have to use both hands just to switch through my tabs (in Firefox it's Ctrl+Tab).

Saturday, September 6, 2008

Crack.

Heroes is crack. Seriously.

We started watching it last night because I had downloaded I think 11 episodes... and after the first one we couldn't stop watching it.

Jake, my mom and I all ended up staying up until 5 or 6 in the morning watching those 11 episodes... And more are downloading =]

Anyways, back to my usual geekiness... I just installed the beta for the new version of Mac, Mac OS X Snow Leopard, and so far... I see no difference other than the 64-bit kernel and that it's WAY slower. Whatever performance advancements they were supposed to make haven't been seen yet.

School has been...

... School-like. Homework, teachers, losing sleep .___. (well, that part is more my fault...)

Most of my teachers let me use my macbook in class =] It's great for notes, and I found an app called Schoolhouse that does a ton of great planning and grade stuff =]