I'm so busy at times I find myself posting on this blog as the last thing on my "to-do" list. I feel like I only post when I'm not busy. I think I forced myself to not be busy in order to post today. heh. Well with my adjustment to working so early in the morning, 7 am (with a wake-up call of 5:30 am) it's been difficult to find time to blog. At least on this blog I find my daily devotion to be beneficially with my daily walk with God.
There's one thing I've noticed myself sacrifice in my life since the start of the new year. It's playing video games. I have 3 video game systems the Wii, Playstation 3, and the Xbox 360. I do give 200 mins a week playing NBA 2K10. But other than that, that's it. Do I want to play video games? I actually do. But there's just no time for me to do so nowadays. I arrive home from work noticing myself continuing devotional bible studies on my own, tuning in to a Laker game, and practicing web designing/programming standards. ''
The glory days of video games are about over for me. Obtaining knowledge of the word of God and the web is in. Except for tonight ... I force myself to slouch on the coach and write this blog.
At the same time, I hope I don't leave this blog or write twice a month. I hope to write more frequently at least twice a week. Perhaps I'll add it to my to-do list on my iCal.
This is by far the longest time I've been on a PC at home. 4+ hours. My tank of a machine, Mac Pro is in the shop because of repairs. Specifically due to firewire ports. I've been maxing out the Mac lately I think I've burned it out. Using multiple firewire ports at the same time, while editing video, sound, browsing the web, chatting, and checking e-mail. Of course, when a strain of that magnitude happens, you gotta wonder that computers weren't as powerful and couldn't multi-task as they can today.
Well it's been another week in the bag. Time to say hello to a 3 day weekend! Bought a pair of new shoes today, heading out to a debut Saturday evening. Urggh I'll miss the Saturday Night NBA All Star festivities! I'll just have to catch the Shannon Brown dunks when I get home or see what I can grab on NBA.com. It's all good though, much more love to a old friend of mine. Sunday it's church and God's time, and Monday, is wide open. Probably a day to relax and play with my new Asus Netbook! Thank you Newegg!
Received some new books today. I love Greg Laurie’s clarification and his doctrine to how God should be approached. Of course, the primary word is from the bible as it should. Also, considering I’m a web geek, I got some books on improving the way I build websites. Elements that are the gift of God that I use for everyday commission unto His glory! Thank you Amazon.com!
I'm really looking forward to bringing my skills and experience towards a company that has been established for some time and has been looking to grow from this ever-growing technological phenomenon that's call the "The Internet." LiveOffice is a service that offers services. We offer unlimited e-mail hosting storage and cloud solutions. I'm excited and committed to establishing myself as a person to provide solutions to our clients and my team as projects get heavy. I have to honestly say that I over-estimated the job market and how we are still "recovering" from a recession that has affected many people both losing and looking for jobs.
There is no question that if you're thinking about quitting your paying job right now, don't quit! Unless it's of a life or death situation. We're also approaching the holiday season, so unless you're applying for a job as a retailer or cashier, you may have to wait until January. Business is tough and direct hires are the way to go. Third-party recruiters are squandering their time and money for companies who need the right people. Paid recruiters are desperately seeking your availability whether you get hired or not because they are offering their services (which is you) to attend these interviews.
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My article today involve 2 companies that have fought over computer supremacy over the past couple years. Microsoft and Apple! The one thing that intrigues me about my blog entry today is that new operating systems have been released recently that I have yet to take a part in purchasing.
Recently a month or two ago, Apple Snow Leopard (OS Version 10.6) became available for the hardcore "APPLE FANS." Freeing up some hard drive space, visual appeal for using stacks, future graphic acceleration within a year or two, and quicker application start-up times are a few of the "enhancements" and "refinements" Apple has been able to do. But when you really think about it, why couldn't this be done through a service pack or update of some sort instead of spewing up $30 for it? And the bad part about it as it's just about common on any new release of an OS is that some of your applications won't be compatible with it. For me that would be Pro Tools, Call of Duty 2 (yes, the only game on my Mac), DiVX (that's huge for multimedia gurus), SMC Fan Control, Firefox (make sure to upgrade to 3.5), GoToMeeting, HP Deskjet Printers (that's huge for me, anyways I'm thinking of purchasing an all-in-one soon), and the list goes on. For some it would be Adobe CS3 (that's big for designers). Well that's some of the bad, so let's get on with some of the good that Apple has been stirring up.
Apple's decision to release new Macbooks and iMacs was pretty awesome. The one thing that intrigued me the most was their 27" iMac display screen. They were advertising how the uni-body was revolutionary and all, but geez, the body type looks pretty much like their last model. It's really an awesome display that is very glossy and appealing to many who are into visualizing photos and imagery. The starting price for those don't seem pretty bad either at $1699. If you go beyond the $1699 price point, you can indulge yourself into settling with quad-core iMac. Very nice if you're getting into some serious video editing and high-res graphic images. Buying an iMac now includes a newly designed "Magic" mouse that Apple has made. I was saying, "Awesome, my Logitech wireless mouse just broke so now I can grab this one!" As appealing as it is and the how use of the scroll is utilized (with no scroll wheel) is tremendously unique. But it's priced at a horrendous $70! Will it work with my Macbook Pro? Yes. My Mac Pro desktop? No. The use of bluetooth devices still really hasn't really took off because of its limitations to personal computing, distance, bandwidth, you name it. Not even a wired Magic mouse is available, so way-to-go on Apple's part. The use of a built-in SD card slot was good for newbies but for those who purchased 7-in-1 card readers can say, "wonderful..." I might take up on the mouse later, but the I can't take any iMacs because of it's incapability to upgrade hard drives internally and maximize usage of memory of more than 4 GBs. That's why I stick to my trusty Mac Pro. But this year it's been annoyingly loud due to an increase of fan noise. How am I suppose to upgrade now? Upgrading will result in more heat being produced thus revving up those fans a bit faster and a bit louder.
One thing that Apple has not invested their time in is really getting into the netbook trend. I think their missing out on a very good thing. Geeks have purchased windows netbooks and either added the Leopard OS (Version 10.5) or partitioned the hard drive only to run Leopard on the laptops. Modded netbooks work perfectly fine in Leopard for even doing basic photo edits on Adobe Photoshop. But you see their thinnest laptop of the world, the Macbook Air priced at $1499 and their Macbook (1.08 inch thin) at $999 both having the same wide-size screen at 13.3". For a typical a Windows netbook installed with Windows XP or 7 is priced at an average $299-$349 and is still lowering its prices almost monthly.
With the release of Microsoft's Windows 7, it retires Vista. Vista, the worse functional operating system Microsoft has ever made. With Windows 7, we have a clean eye candy interface that appeals to the audience without the crazy bloated software and mishaps Microsoft made with Vista. Actually, it is Vista. Just, like Apple, Microsoft "refined" it's OS. I've tested the Windows 7 OS for nearly 3 months and I gotta say it's worked pretty well for me thus far. I've installed a RC version onto my Macbook Pro thanks to Boot Camp but only experienced 2 freezes over the course of using it. So let's not get too carried away here. Many of the laptops that have Windows 7 pre-installed now offer 7 or 8 hour battery life from a full charge. Apple now offers this on their Macbook Pro (starting at $1299) lineup so we can at least expect longer battery life to be a commodity in today's laptops. So what does Windows 7 computers offer that Vista did not? Well. Nothing. If you want to include the use of snap, live taskbar previews, and homegroup then I guess those can be considered "new features." As for everything else, applications and programs now work with a more robust system with a visual appealing style. But tell me something Microsoft, why not sell it at a cheaper rate for those who suffered the Vista crashes and why do you guys still over 6 or 7 different versions of the OS?
Both operating systems now rely on the success of 3rd party web 2.0 companies. Such as digg, flickr, facebook, YouTube, and many online blogging applications. We see it Internet Explorer 8, iPhoto, iMovie, and more.
One thing still stands. Project managers and business folks are more inclined to use Windows and designers and multimedia folks would love to use Apple computers. The typical PC gamer will get a Windows computer. At least the PC user have known what to get for the last 20 years or so with gaming, and that's a Windows PC. With mobile phones, we see businesses still purchasing company Blackberrys while the partnership of iPhone and AT&T have been deteriorating. With games and utilities being so popular with the iPhone, other cell phone manufacturers have much to catch on.
So what is a person like me to get? Windows 7? Snow Leopard (when it works) for me? Well, I'd get BOTH. Evolutionary tech is something that I've always been into. It's what keeps me in the market, it's what enhances my skills in the professional world, as well as gets me going as a hobbyist and strategist.
I know I left out A LOT of things that approve or contradict the 2 companies, but I'll leave that to the critics that get paid for this. Anyways, it'll be a interesting holiday shopping season heading into Christmas! But I gotta say, if people just want to browse and interact with people like many folks do, you just need a $399 laptop or desktop. And that's what many folks will end up getting. A Windows PC.
Twitter was down last week. Facebook was slow last week. YouTube was infected also. 45 million users on Twitter +(plus) DDoS attacks =(equals) Geezus! Get read social media, you are being used in all different types of ways both networking and hacking purposes. Twitter could not even handle the Opera collapsing the services of Twitter. It's almost apocalyptic.
People are beginning to not handle living without these social media utilities. We all want to reach out to people (yes in a good way), follow everyone's status, and feel important to the online society we helped invent.
An embarrassing matter of the fact is, how many people are on these social media utilities at the same time! It seems to cause the web 2.0 world to blow up! As we know throughout the years, Microsoft Windows and Internet Explorer have paved a way for malicious activity and hackers in modifying the behavior of our computers. Well social media, now it's your turn. With about 99% of popular social services being free and their API being available to everyone, we as the users must be cautious. Cautious of these web applications being thwarted. Sadly, sometimes it's comedy.
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I know I mentioned about Netbooks in a previous blog entry. But I am so diggin' this netbook by Acer. It's only $299 but why am I so tempted to get one when I already have 2 laptops and 2 desktops?
It feels conconvient to just have this one when doing minor tasks such as surfuing the web and e-mailing. It's also good to watch movies within your USB thumbdrives or network them through a router.
