Jeremy's Notes

In early September I started looking for a messenger bag for college. A few weeks earlier I happen to catch an episode of Tekzilla on Revision3 and a viewer happen to write-in and ask about a good place online to buy great messenger bags. They mentioned the Timbuk2 company out of San Fransico, CA and how they’ve been creating great bags for a while now. Since I needed a new bag and price really didn’t matter all that much, I checked out the  Timbuk2 website – timbuk2.com. I knew that I needed a bag that could handle carrying both a 15.4″ laptop and several textbooks. Those requirements led me to the Timbuk2 Commuter 2.0 laptop messenger bag. Read more…

I found the theme that I am going to base the wiki off of. It is the Mozilla wiki theme – Cavendish.

It is very well designed and will definitly meet my needs for note publishing. You can find @ http://mediawiki2u.com/2008/04/mediawiki-theme-cavendish/.

The Project

I am currently in the process of designing a note publishing system using a wiki-based app. My goal is to design a system to allow me to easily organize, reference and share the notes that I take when I’m at school. I believe a wiki is probably the best system for this, because wiki’s are designed to archive information and allow easy referencing between different subjects – wikipedia.org Read more…

Weather Watcher Live

• Interface: Very simple and easy to setup. It initially shows up on the status bar at the bottom of the Firefox window, but after glancing at the settings, I discovered that you can place it on several other parts of the window. I chose the bookmark bar, simply because I like everything to be at the top of my screen.
• Information Displayed: You can add several different stations to Weather Watcher. I added two stations that are both within 5 miles of my house, one at the local high school and the other at the municipal air port. All of the icons display information when you hover over them with your mouse. The globe icon displays the current Doppler image. The other icons/the weather status icons display the forecast information. You can change the update time for all the information. I currently have mine set to 3 minute updates.
• Why did I choose this? Weather Watcher Live has a very simple and easy to understand interface with a good amount of customization. Highly Recommended!

Chatzilla

• I dont have too much to write about this, but as far as I can see, it’s basically a simple replacement for having a full time IRC application, like mIRC. Basically from what I can see, if you’re not big into IRC chatting and you don’t feel the need to have your own dedicated app, this is a good choice for you. A lot of software developers use IRC chat rooms as a means for supporting their users. If you’re like me and you download lots of different applications, this is good for you, so you can just click on the IRC support channel link and the chat room will open immediately.
• Why did I choose this? Chatzilla is by-far the most supported and downloaded IRC add-on. It allows a good deal of color and font modification to the chat windows. Recommended for the IRC novice, but not a replacement for mIRC or any other dedicated IRC application.

I have used Google Chrome as my full-time  browser for at at least the last six months.  Lately, as my interest in getting into web design again has peaked, so has my disappointment with Chrome. My whole issues revolves around the fact that Firefox does an awesome job at display all the resources of a web site. Also, while Chrome may have a far superior basic interface, I feel like at the moment, you cant do enough with it. Firefox on the other hand gives you access to thousands of community driven plug-ins that give the browser unlimited potential. I don’t feel like Chrome offers quite the same experience. I feel that is definitely not as straight-forward. Read more…

I have finally updated to  WP 2.8.4 and added the LifeStream plugin!

Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!

Wow I fortunately found out today from Gizmodo/Destructoid that my 360 can read DivX files! I am certainly glad I did a little research on that, because I was just on the verge of buying a $70 DVD player to read the files and other ones too. Pays to show how research is completely worth it.

BTW:

The DivX Author is one program that is completely worth it! Ive converted and combined several movies that I own into one DVD and it actually looks pretty decent on my HDTV. (Toshiba 26” Regza…)

Over the years I have used a few different services and companies to host my web sites, but recently I have come along one that I think I will stick with for a very long time. This company is called Dreamhost.com.

This company is probably the best one I have every dealt with. I’ll start off by saying they have one of the best pricing ever. Using the coupon code JMAC50OFF will reduce the price of one year of their hosting service by $50 and also includes a FREE one year domain registration for any .com, .net, or .org domain.

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I have been using Firefox for probably the last 3.5 years and so far it seems to be great. It was love at first site. The tabbing feature, the custom addons, the custom themes… Need I say more? I especially like Firefox 3, I think the new default theme is great! I havent changed from it yet. Oh btw I guess before you read on I’ll put the specific version of my Firefox, to leave out any confusion on if these tricks will work for you. I am using Firefox v3.0.1 (the way you check that is by going to help -> about Moz. Firefox).

Here are a few Tips and Tricks for making your internet browsing experience more enjoyable:

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