Google Chrome

Posted by: Sean | Posted on: April 16th, 2009 | 0 Comments

Over the past few weeks i have started to use Google Chrome as my main internet browser, i decided to start using it more because it is really fast to open. Although i really like Firefox i will be using Chrome for the next while for the bulk of my browsing. 

I will however still be using Firefox because i use it a lot when editing websites because of all the great plugins that i have that make problem solving with websites a breeze. I will never go back and use Microsoft's Internet Explorer and have not used it in about 2 years now. 

I found that when watching some of the high definition videos in firefox it made the video jump when you try to play it when the video is still finishing off downloading. In chrome however i found that it plays seamlessly, i would assume this has to do with the fact that because Firefox uses so much memory compared to other applications, when you try to run a HD video it just becomes a little too much and since Chrome uses less memory it dosent find it as such a struggle to play the HD videos.

There are a few other reasons i switched to chrome, i like how much screen space i now have with this browser, i can see a lot more of the page which is great :D

There is one other time when i use all of my internet browsers, (Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer), i use them when i want to check to make sure that my website is displaying right in all the different browsers, because chances are when you are designing and using the one browser to check if it is looking ok, by time you come to finally check it when you are finished you will most likely find something that has broken in one of the different browsers because the code differs slightly from browser to browser.

Wireless Keyboard And Mouse

Posted by: Sean | Posted on: March 1st, 2009 | 0 Comments

Last month i finally got around to buying a wireless keyboard & mouse, up until then i had never bought a keyboard & mouse i just used the basic one that came with the computer.  I am glad i finally bought one though, they have so many extra buttons that you can customize, it really helps to increase getting things done while on the computer.

This keyboard allows you to control your media player with the few buttons along the top of the keyboard, there is also 5 customizable buttons that you get to program, this too helps speed up things, it saves having to go looking for a program in the start menu. The 5 i have mine programmed to are:

• Filezilla
• Textpad
• Dreamweaver
• Photoshop
• Google Chrome

There is also buttons along the side that open up folders such as 'My Music', 'My Documents' and 'My Pictures' and also a few programs like Firefox and iTunes. Also on the mouse there is a few extra features  there is two extra button's on the side of the mouse i just set these to copy and paste.

The only bad thing to do with this set is the size of the receiver, it is huge, there is no reason for it to be that big, other than that i have no problems with it.

I was surprised that Microsoft allowed you to set the media controls to control another media player other than there own 'Windows Media Player' which i hate!