Firefox Why Can’t I Let You Go?

Oh why Opera why can’t I use you so?

I’m starting to get a little annoyed at how I really like Opera and Firefox, recent reasons i haven’t been able to switch to Opera is the fact Firefox has its build in spell checker which I love because my spelling is a mess a lot of the time.

so that’s the first problem I have second is del.icio.us I love my plugins for it as I loose a lot of my bookmarks well to put it another way Firefox looses my bookmarks all the time, so in Opera I don’t have that plugin.

Opera the refreshing feature is fabulous my favourite feature if your posting on forums it is a life saver you can just enable it to refresh every 1 minute or something and then just flick your screen over to see if theirs anything new.

The sidebar with notes, mail etc… its a amazing feature saves so much time, your on a site want to jot some notes down while reading no need to open up notepad you have a pad next to your browser!

Blogging Where Shall I Write A Draft?

Normally when I go to write a post for my blog I will open up Open Office or MS Office, but this got me thinking I have a full text editor on my blog and I also have the Google toolbar so why should i need to even use and word processor.
So this post is just a trial to see how well Google and Wordpress work together alternative of using OO, but already Google spell checker is messing up my work its adding all kind of crap to my posts, don’t know what was happening their but i think i have sorted out that issue with clicking loads of buttons randomly.

So now I’m going to check this one last time with Google spell checker and copy it into MS Word.

Well one good thing is that it detected that i wasn’t using any capital ‘i’.

But from this expirience of using Wordpress + Google toolbar Vs a word processor is that when in wordpress it will allow me to add pictures which I can’t really do in a word processor for obvious reasons, and i can’t copy over bullet points without having problems when viewing in Internet Explorer.

Google Desktop

Well I’ve been playing around with Google Desktop now for the past couple of weeks to see what its like as it looked very interesting, normally I would be very picky with something like this but its completely customizable, I have the google search (for my computer) which indexes all my files (brilliant) scratch pad really handy if you haven’t got notepad running or Opera, Email this is the best one of all it will make a email bold if I haven’t read it theirs no need to click send and receive all the time or go to your inbox to check its just on the right side of the screen I love it!

GdRSS Reader if you read a couple of blogs this isn’t too bad but not something I’m bothered about having but you know if you like to keep up with all your blogs it’s a life saver.

There is loads of other brilliant gadgets out their from clocks to virtual plant pots, give it a go Google Desktop

Beginners Guide To XAMPP.

XAMPP is made by Apache Friends (http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html). It allows you to setup your http server with ease. If you have tried setting up Apache on your desktop PC it can be very hard to configure especially for Windows machines, XAMPP allows you do basic setup all you need in one setup file.

It will offer to install Apache, PHP, MySQL and Perl instead of installing them separately.

So I’m going to talk you through the installation to check your doing it all right so we are going to download XAMPP i downloaded XAMPP Windows 1.5.4a you can download it here (http://www.apachefriends.org/download.php?xampp-win32-1.5.4a-installer.exe).

So i went throught the installation before hand this is my results

Choose language

Install destination (C:\program files)

Waiting for install…

Finish

Popup “install XAMPP Servers (Apache, MySQL or Filezilla FTP) as service?” Yes

Popup “install Apache 2 as service?” Yes

Popup “Apache 2 service was installed successfully! (ports: 80 +443)” Ok

Popup “Install MySQL as service?” Yes

Popup “MySQL service was installed successfully! (port: 3306)” Ok

Popup “Install Filezilla FTP service?” Yes

How Our Computing Lives Are Changing!

As we can see from the major search engine Google things like MS Office and Open Office, may be a think of the past if you look at docs.google.com you will see that you can now create documents and spreadsheets online.

The document creator you might be able to see that it works like a lot of word processors, right click your get the usual options like copy and paste you have tool bars with fonts on them.

So what plus sides are their from Google Docs & Spreadsheets?

Well think about it imagine doing some of your work as home then no need to carry and flash drives or laptops you can just log on to Google and get your documents your created earlier!

So maybe this could be the way to the future?

No more laptops, no more flash drives just Google.