The All Mighty Google

Here I go again (Whitesnake playing in my head) with another blog post.  This week we have focused on the all mighty Google search engine and its associate, Gmail.  I have had a Gmail account for quite some time, but really only used it when I had to.  I really like the fact that I can consolidate all of my other accounts into this one area.  I have had this feature set up on my Mac for a long time, and have found it to be very, very useful.  If you would like more information on how to do this take a look here.  Another thing that I found useful was Boomerang.  It’s a sort of addon for Chrome that will allow you to compose an email, but schedule it to be sent a later time/date.  This will be very useful for sending out reminders to parents, or meeting reminders.  I might even start using it to send myself reminders, this hadn’t really occurred to me until just now.  If you would like to know how to set up Boomerang have a peek here.  Finally, I really liked the ability to be able to “unsend” an email.  I know we have all had that moment of “oh crap, I sent that without the attachment”, or some other reason why we would like to have a redo.  This seems like it should be a must for most people.  More information on how to set this up can be found here.  What tools have you find for Chrome and/or Gmail? 

Here we go again...

Well, I have officially begun my second blog post.  I have started several blogs over my career, but I don’t seem to be able to stick with them for very long.  I have never really been much of a blogger, not really sure why.  Maybe it’s part of my ADD.

My wife disagrees with me that I have ADD, she thinks it’s just a lack of focus.  Here’s an example:

I will begin to clean our living room, I will pick something up to put it away in one of my daughter’s rooms.  Once I’m in their room I will pick something up for my other daughter’s room.  While I am in her room I might pick up a cup and take it to the kitchen.  I will decide to wash that cup and then several more after it.  Then I realize that I need a dish towel to dry those cups, so I head down to the laundry room.  Down there I see that I need to wash some towels.  After all of this I may finally get back to the living room.

There may also be a little bit of OCD thrown into the mix as well.

Now, back to my original point of why I don’t blog.  Who knows?  My wife may be right, but don’t tell her I said that, it may just be a lack of focus.  I also think part of the problem is that I have never been much of a creative writer.  I always dreaded being given a creative writing assignment.  Now, if you gave me a research topic, I could whip that paper out in nothing flat.

 So, I ask that all of you please bear with me.  That is, if there is anyone out there even reading this. 

To Chrome or not to Chrome?

Changing is a very difficult thing for me to do.  I have been using Firefox since its release back in late 2004.  I can see many similarities between Firefox and Chrome.  I can not say the same for the other 2 main competitors out there, Safari and Internet Explorer.  One of the main things that I like about these 2 browsers is that they are both very stable.  I have far fewer issues with either of them failing to load a webpage.  One of the biggest advantages I can see is if a site crashes on one of your tabs, other open tabs will not be affected.  Another major advantage is that Chrome is more easily usable on mobile devices as shown in the video at the bottom.  However, to be honest, I don't really see that many differences between the 2 browsers.  If there are any that I am missing please let me know.  For those of you that would like to try Google Chrome for yourself just click here: Chrome Download.