Thursday, April 06, 2006

Back to the standards

Bah! I'm back to Internet Explorer. Why? Maxthon sucks. It's too slow. Opera doesn't open a lot of pages I need to visit and won't feature some of the Rich Text editors embedded in sites (like Joomla) that I need. I am on a Program Diet. After years of gluttonous consumption downloading and installing (and filling up my registry and slowing down my computer) every program imaginable I have decided to lose the extra weight. My goal is to get One program for each function. I don't think that's really possible. I'm also trying to do it for free as much as it can be done. Now I have some software titles on hand that are paid for and will be using those, naturally.

Media/MP3 - Winamp (free from AOL)
Media/Pics - Picasa (free from Google)
Media/Movies - Nero (also to burn discs)
Office Suite - Office 2003 (from Microsoft - Open Office just doesn't do it for me)
Graphics Editor - Macromedia Fireworks (I don't understand Adobe software).
PDF Maker - Adobe Acrobat 7.0 (No other PDF maker comes close)
Antivirus - Norton System Works (yeah, it slows down the system, but it works)
AntiSpyware - Windows Defender (Microsoft gets serious)
Browser - IE - (Really, customised it can be good)

And that's it. For now. My computer has been stripped of it's consuming ways and made a Producing machine. Much better.

Sunday, April 02, 2006

Maxthon Browser

Maxthon Browser – Tabbed Internet browser software
Twice Maxthon Browser's Third Party add-on plug-in "Blog This" has killed my post and I am now even less enthused to type out evrything again so this time I am going to copy this post before hitting "Publish". You don't know what I'm talking about? Oh. Well that's cuz everything was lost into the e-ther.
I was running on about how Maxthon Browser may be the best of both worlds for my love of Opera's functionality and universal acceptance of Internet Explorer. However, if Maxthon keeps acting up I'm gonna leave it behind and go back to my two browser system.. See... I'm trying to get down to just one of evrything. One Browser. One Media Player. One Office Suite. One Anti-spy. One Anti-Virus. Simplicity.
OK... Copy and Publish... cross fingers.