September 5th, 2008
With modern day computing...haha, I'm sorry that sentence is just hilarious to me. Let's try this again and not sound like tard (that will be hard).
The internet is pretty awesome, everything you can possibly need is there. The problem is I hate revisiting websites over and over hoping for updates. I want the information to come to me! With that being said, RSS is key to me continuing reading your content. No RSS? Well, you better hope that I revisit my bookmark, but chances are I won't, so invest into a feed of any sort.
RSS is the only way I keep up to date with comics, blogs, and all sorts of nothingness. Of course, I use Google Reader. If you aren't using it, start using it because you will think, "Why wasn't I using this before?!"
I just really get bummed out when I find an amazing comic that has no feed, it's a major bummer. I definitely not being joining your newsletter, mainly because I never read newsletters, I hate junk like that in my inbox.
The only reason I made this post was to say that I finally got around to fixing Hmmburger's awesomely horrible RSS feed. It's a work in progress, but the feed now is better than ever. No more blocks of text, I finally formatted it! YES! So subscribe to the feed.
September 4th, 2008
Last Thursday was pretty amazing, if you don't live in Phoenix you may not know that last Thursday's storm was pure awesome. As pure as you could get.
There was awesome rain, lightning and all sorts of crazy awesomeness that occurred. So I did what any person should do and take the camera outside and snap some pictures. I took some pictures, but most sucked mainly because taking pictures of lightning is pretty hard.
I am not going to bore you with the details. The main thing I want you to know is that the winds were recorded at 75mph here and where I live we had lost power for a day, on top of that we had no air conditioning for three days. Pretty sweet!
Here are three pictures that I really liked and two sweet little gifs I made. I wanted to make more, but the picture quality was pretty bad.
Not as cool as the next :/
September 2nd, 2008
What!? A Google Browser?!!?! No way!
Google Chrome is a new web browser from Google that is based on Webkit (a rendering engine blah blah blah) and uses Gears. Oh yeah, it's also open source.
Since everyone that has a keyboard is talking about it, I thought, "Why not?" So, I had to jump on the hype wagon cause we all know that everything that Google makes is gold. EVERYTHING. Also, it will stay in Beta for an unknown period of time.
First off, I loaded it and it was fast! Then each tab I opened was just as fast. It felt like I was surfing the internets at full force. It was pretty neat. Then again, what do you expect when each tab gets its own process.
Another neat thing that I really found to be awesome was the awesome greeting page. It was like a, "Hey Vince, I already prepared some sites you like because you visit these all the time." That made me happy, it was nice but totally not a thing I would use often. Then again, we will see if I use it.
As a designer, it's nice to see that many sites look real pretty but that is thanks to the Webkit rendering engine. That makes it easier to develop for.
I really don't know what else to say about Chrome. I am excited about it, I can dig it, but how will the public react to this? I guess we will see in the next few weeks to see if it is really adopted. As for me, I think I might toy around with this a bit more because it is quite fast and feels like how a browser should feel. Give me Firebug for this and I will be happy.
Interested? Download it!
