Thursday, November 1, 2012

LONG WINDED LOT ABOUT NOTHING..

Working on a series of videos (music videos) for  sometime in the future, although I don't quite know when.. The kaleidoscope effect is being heavily utilized again (although I said no more using this effect)  I started doing some GIF files to try this time as well as a few other pictures..

I have downloaded and installed around five or six browsers to try.. Does this mean Firefox days are numbered?? No, I don't think so.. I want to try a few more FF variants as well as Chrome variations (dragon and a few others)  and I think there is one that is related closely to the dreaded IE browser.. Two that I wish were still active in support are Netscape and Flock.. Neither are supported but both are still able to be downloaded and used.. Flock was heavily into social sites like Facebook Twitter Bebo  and a host of others.. Netscape was great and was closely associated with AOL which would make most people cringe...

Also a few programs I got are music associated.. Before, about a year ago I was after a mp3 splitter to do a four plus hour radio show and cut it down into hour long segments for easier to listen to.. Today I wanted to be able to put songs together so I got a few audio joiner type of programs to kick the tires of..  And a few video programs and a couple graphics altering programs one of which looks to be a 3D program on the likes of Blender which I've never gotten to start.. I mean I can get the program to start but can't figure out how to use it, an initial idea to go from vector a  or vector 1..  Animation and an idea for something would be nice..  A character of some sort..  Cat   dog    something else???  Don't even have a clue..

The previous three paragraphs were written last night during the onslaught of tricksters treating and the lot.. After opening the browsers I shut down the computer and after thinking about it for a while I came up with the conclusion that when I was looking for THAT browser the new "IT" browser to  be faster than fast and stable and work like none other I realized something.. I got Waterfox and started calling it the next best browser and it is just SO GREAT.. But as I said it has the same hiccup   that the Firefox family does which is to say at startup it goes to where the "homepage" just about loads and it crashes, or stops working and then it gets over its self and moves forward, all the FF family browsers do this.. Why??     If I knew that, or maybe it is just this computer.. Firefox, Aurora, Waterfox and the just acquired Seamonkey and Flashpeak slimboat and SRware  are all the same.. and that they are built with the Firefox footprint makes them all work the same way.. Dragon (Comodo dragon) and the other two family of Chrome are built that way.. So why keep them?.. In the case of the Chrome based browsers they might be good as an alternative, I like to use a browser set to do a single thing, but that is starting to be questionable.. I thought last night that having four browsers might be a good thing, get rid of the clutter in other words.. As far as the other audio programs I want to at least try them.. But I think I do just want to have two, Wavepad and Audacity, with one of the new "joiner" programs added as well.. Two picture viewing programs Picasa and Faststone,  Two graphics programs  PdN, and Adobe photoshop (?)..

Speaking of the homepage ; There have been changes since a year ago.. Last year my homepage was (?).. I'm not sure I had a true homepage.. Maybe Yahoo was but it pissed me off.. The popup that they use (the advert that renders links unusable) has made Yahoo fall out of favor and I looked for and got I-Google as my homepage and from about the first part of November through the remainder of the year I was working on that to make it MY homepage.. It was an obsessive situation with literally every moment I was on the computer spent building the page.. They use gadgets and I was getting so many, placing them.. Trying them, getting many of sport, news and weather gadgets and jusdt after the first of this year when I had it all set, perfect!!  they had a little note at the top of the page "I-GOOGLE DISCONTINUING AFTER NOVEMBER 1st 2013"   and all I could think was well that's just.. Actually through all the thinking that this was the ultimate I couldn't help but think this really isn't what I wanted either.. Being tied to a single homepage isn't me.. So what to do??  I started to dismantle the homepage and looked for a new idea.. The latest and to me greatest idea was the Opera Speed dial.. If only this could be in the Firefox browser, and then I looked and they have an addon that is a speed dial type of thing.. PERFECT and that became my "homepage" which is to say I now have a few hundred homepages.. Not being tied to one anymore..  I tried Yahoo the other day and it still sucks so it has fallen almost to the point of deletion from the speed dial settings..


Badge Henry  (long winded  entry)

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