Laptop Bridge

Today, I was trying to update my friend's Blu-Ray player online but it was a couple rooms away from his router. The player had no wireless connection, only an ethernet jack on the back. My friend has wireless, but he doesn't have a wireless bridge...

I had my laptop with me and an extra cat-6 cable. The thought crossed my mind that I might be able to use my laptop as a wireless bridge. I turned to my good firend, Mr. Google, and 5 minutes later I had a solution.

It turns out it's quite easy to bridge your wirless and wired (or any) network connections together... Just highlight the two networks and right click then select bridge connections. Presto!

I hope this is helpful!

Pre-fix

I'm about to get my fix... my Pre-fix.... I'm in line right now!

It's so shiny....

Ok, so I've talked to you about Chrome before, but now, I think is the time to make the switch... and that's a lot sooner than I expected. There are few things to complain about, and I can't think of any off the top of my head. I recommend you take the plunge into the most amazing web browsing experience you've ever had.

PS - It's out of Beta.

No technology for 24 hours

We had an assignment in class to go without communication technology for 24 hours. For many people this is easy, for me it's impossible. I would literally have to quit my job and drop out of school to accomplish this task...

This girl in my class on the other hand... She made a point of raising her hand and telling the teacher that she accomplished this assignment by simply waiting for a time period when she couldn't use her cellphone or the internet (while she was at work) and did the assignment at that time.

How the fuck is that constructive? Not only was that not in the spirit of the assignment, it was completely uninteresting to the rest of the class. To add to this obnoxious story of "I didn't use the technology when I couldn't use it...." she repeated the story 3 times. This is mostly the professor's fault for saying he didn't understand several times...

And now I'm going to try to pay attention again...

What? I'm serious... kinda.

Firefox Forever?

Ok, so I'm a huge Firefox fan. In the beginning, it was hard to convince me that Firefox was a good idea. This was because I know well that the majority of folks out there are using IE. As a web developer, I see the importance of making sure the majority of people are able to view my content properly. Well, one day, someone tried to convince me to get Firefox and I figured, what the hell, it couldn't hurt. Well, I was hooked. I've got several favorite extensions and I love tabbed browsing. Well, the newer versions of IE have most of those things... but I'm still a big fan of Firefox. I mean, come on, it's won so much of the market share, there has to be a reason. It's just better on so many levels.

Today, I'm here to tell you that Firefox is no longer my default browser. I know. I'm shocked too.

As all of you loyal readers know, I'm a Google fan-boy. I am to Google as this guy is to Mac. I use Google to stay in touch with the world and keep myself organized.

Still, when I read that Google had come out with its own browser, I was skeptical. Why would Google develop a browser when there was already an amazing powerhouse (Firefox) available.

Well, skepticism aside, I was curious... I downloaded my copy of Chrome minutes after reading about it. And the fact that it took me MINUTES says something... (I downloaded every other Google application that I've ever used within seconds)

So, what's the result?

Fast. It's so fast. I didn't know the internet could move so fast!
And as for my extensions I have to download and install and configure on every computer I use with Firefox... Those features are standard. And they work well...

This is just the first release, and it's already holding its own against Firefox... I'm excited to see what the future holds for this exciting new browser.

GET IT!