Jak’s Life 2.0

PC World has compiled a list of the weirdest things in Google Earth/Maps. This list is pretty cool and worth a look, and yes the list includes the above picture of a car on the side of the building. See the entire list at PC World’s post.

The two companies that I’ve heard a lot about and love are Facebook and Google, both of which who have received A’s. This is the way the folks at Read/Write Web see Google and it’s competitors which I agree with, except that I don’t see Ask.com which I have recently taken a likening to.

As you can see there is a lot of competition for Google but Google sure can take them and continue to be the leading search engine. As for Facebook I can see a whole lot of great improvements and to see them all I’d recomend taking a look at this post from Read/Write Web.

As I promised in my “Great Firefox Theme” post I’ve compiled my rants about all of my Firefox extensions.

• First up is Adblock Plus, This allows you to disable ads on every page, it works very well except that it prevents photobucket from working properly but that’s not the end of the world, you can easily disable the plugin from it’s handy dandy icon on your toolbar.
• Next is Configuration Mania, this add-on allows the user to use a GUI to adjust some of the most commonly adjusted setting in the “about:config” page
• dAmn XPCOM - this allows you to use deviantART’s chat features, it’s much faster than using their java applet
• Digg This - Every good Digg.com user needs to be able to submit a page quickly from their browser’s contextual menu, this add-on allows you to do just that.
• Greasemonkey - this little but extremely powerful add-on is extremely useful, much like Firefox add-ons users are able to write little scripts that run in Greasmonkey, this is different, there are millions of users writing little tid bits of code that can be run by the powerful little add-on. These codes are able to say reorder the digg comment system, or simply rid Myspace of ads.
• VideoDownloader - This does exactly as it’s name suggests, it allows users to easily download Youtube, Metacafe, iFilm, etc.
• Last but certainly not least is the Web Developer add-on, it adds a contextual menu and/or a toolbar with tons and tons of useful web developer tools, this add-on is so great I can’t explain, you just simply have to try it.

Well I certainly don’t use a lot of add-ons mainly to keep Firefox’s memory usage to a minimum as I only have a 1gb stick of ram in my mac :[, thanks for reading ~JAK

Well today Google debuted their popular windows application, Google Desktop for Mac OS X. So far I have liked it it’s fast, much like quicksilver and spotlight. Although the interface is clean, as if it was an Apple application, or even slicker. There was a few things that caught my eye other than the slick search interface, I wasn’t sure where in the world everything was being installed and what exactly was being installed. Daring Fireball, well, dared to find out and their results can be found here. My next question was how well does it work and how well is it integrated into my system, wel apparently according to Daring Fireball it’s got it’s little hands in your system but is inert. It is also very fast and efficient for the minimal amount of searching I actually do outside of Quicksilver.

I advise taking a look at this site, it’s got a great list of search modifiers and a detailed explination of what each one does.

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