first time blogger
This my first time blogging from my new browser choice, Safari. I had resisted using Safari for the longest time. I was using Camino, which was even chosen by MacAddict as the browser of choice for Mac OS X users. I, of course, concurred with MacAddict’s careful research and study and continued my blissful use of Camino. Of course, with visits from Talkback (Camino’s lovely error reporting program) becoming more and more frequent, I was beginning to pull away from my previously beloved browser. The last straw was when I was trying to collect banking data from various bank websites. I went to wamu.com and tried to look at their new account pages. I got obnoxious error pages that I simply could not get around. I retried the same site with Safari and it worked wonderfully, so I switched.
Initially, I didn’t like Safari because there was something about its look and feel that I just found really unpleasant. It wasn’t that the browser was particularly poorly designed, but simply that I didn’t like it. I do have to say that the brushed aluminum look that has been applied to every single iApp has grown a little uh…how shall I say…overjudiciously applied. Its quite nice, and looked good when it was featured in iTunes, but that is quite enough if I may say so myself, even if it does make for a very clean look. I finally figured out what it was I didn’t like about the appearance of the browser, and I know why I couldn’t figure out what it was. Its such an insignificant thing, visually speaking, that I would never have guessed it was the problem. In the beta versions of Safari, there was a button on the far right for bug reporting. That button was the niggling problem that made me dislike the appearance of the browser. Pretty sad, huh? Well anyway, onto what I really came to blog about.
I set up my aunt’s airport wireless network today. She has never used her Airport Base Station before and had only attempted setup once about two weeks ago. To give you an idea of how sad this is, she has an original Graphite base station (the first generation). She bought it when it first became available, because she thought the idea was really cool, but didn’t take it out of the box until two weeks ago. I love my aunt, but that’s a long time to have a tech gadget and not do anything with it. I discovered that on the graphite station, the status lights lit up different colors, which is really cool. Each one can cycle through red, orange and green like a traffic light. Maybe this isn’t exciting to you, but I found it extremely interesting, especially since they were discarded in favor of basic white LED’s for the snow base station. As far as I can tell, no more information was conveyed by the extra colors, they just looked cool. And quite frankly, I think no Apple product is truly complete without a dash of “looks cool”.
School starts soon. Being as it is that I am a senior, this means school + college apps. Nothing like applications to get anyone excited. Last year around this time, Jesse and I blogged that we wouldn’t be blogging as often and as a result, our hits went down. So instead of saying that, I am going to say instead that blogging will keep up (at least for me) at its current pace or better, if I can muster it. Even though I am already overcommitted at school, being as this is a prior commitment, I’ll do my very best to keep up.
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