All last night and this morning, I woke up at six-seven a.m. to work on my computer, trying to fix it, trying to reboot it, and to no avail. It makes me sad. I managed to scavenge some information from my dying computer. It was done for anyway. Yet I can't really leave from it. you know? it would seem harsh if I did. I've spent so much time on that computer. So much time away from something else I could've done. Really, its the reason why I've succeeded and why I am the (hopefully) better person now, although I highly doubt it.
My computer is now a Dimension 8200, rather than a Dimension 2400. Its the same thing, except the computer I am using now has about 75GB. LOL thats more than 3 times the memory I put up with with my old computer. My old computer had an astounding 22.2GB of memory. Whats even more amazing is how, after downloading all the necessities such as microsoft 2007, adobe, flash, and all the "common files", I was left with 8 GB. I made do with those 8 GB so efficiently, let me tell you. But even after all the hate I'm giving to my old computer, it in the end got the job done.
My new computer functions just like the 2400 (it is a dimension.. duh), but it makes an annoying buzzing that occurs. constantly. oh well. a computer is a computer.
I also downloaded google chrome last night, read all the specifics about it in their little comic book, and 'they' convinced me to download their product. Whats amazing about this is how google is dominating everything. Literally. They own the blog, youtube, they have Google: News, Finance, Maps, Images, Search Engine, Email, Shopping, Groups, Books, Scholar (for scholar articles relating to research, etc), Calender, Photo (like photobucket.. but better), SITES, DOCS, READER. Its a hell of a lot.
The last three, however, are more important than the rest (although the calender and photo have similar signficance). Want to guess why?
These apps will revolutionize integrated computers; computers connected to the internet.
SITES: Lets you create your own site. I am not kidding. It is much like blogs where people have their own "blogs", but enhanced to let the person have their own creativity and let it grow to however they wish it be... of course with google's tag on it. key concept: its free. its easy too. easy enough for the average person to use it and understand it.
heres my site I just started and made within 30 seconds.
DOCS: If everybody picks up on this, bye bye Microsoft 2007+. It contains "Powerpoint, Word, Excel, and Forms. To put it succinctly, google just eliminated the point of a "personal desktop". This means the average person can move anywhere with a computer that contains internet access, and disregarding the computer's probable lack of word/ ppt/ excel, will be able to perform these tasks regardless. The only thing saving microsoft now is how they make their products standard when buying a new computer. Also, I don't know about you guys, but I used to email myself documents, wksts, etc so I could pull it out during school, from my mom's labtop, and so on. It made my information mobile. I did not always have a USB drive handy, so emailing myself the files were the next best thing. DOCS allows you to upload everything online, in a very neat format.
READER: helps you keep track of your favorite websites, eliminating the need for you to go to your computer and rely on the "favorites and caches" you store. Basically, you log websites into it, and it constantly checks if there is any new content, pretty cool huh? Plus, since its all in one site, one format, you can view everything at once!
Google is making this effort to truly revolutionize what we know of computers today. What your desktop will be in the probable near future is just a shell to access the online web, mass, blob, of information and applications.
And its not only Google doing this, but really all the other major technology companies are getting into this as well. I wonder who will win the race.
I think I'll place my bets on Google :)
.. and then theres the whole 'facebook' debacle. hmm..
I think this is enough for now :D
