45 Things: My Internet Experience

by Maria on June 12, 2008

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1. I use Firefox 3 Release Candidate 2. I’ve only opened Internet Explorer twice since I’ve had this computer.

2. My homepage is iGoogle, as pictured in the screenshot.

3. I use the following add-ons for Firefox:

  • StumbleUpon
  • Taboo – Taboo allows you to bookmark pages by clicking a button, and cycle through them by screenshots later. I went through withdrawals when I upgraded Firefox and they hadn’t updated yet. Luckily it didn’t take them long.
  • Adblock Plus – If you don’t have it you’re crazy. It blocks ads. On all pages. On all sites.
  • BBCode – Transforms my text by right clicking with BBCode/HTML/XHTML.
  • Down Them All - Easy downloading tool.
  • Toolbar Buttons - I use it for the ‘open new tab, and undo close tab’.

4. My bookmarks toolbar is my best friend. Currently bookmarked are:

  • Gmail
  • My bank.
  • Paypal.
  • immoralmatriarch.com
  • My wordpress dashboard for immoralmatriarch.com
  • MySpace
  • Plurk – Better than twitter. It’s like…twitter on crystal meth. Give it a chance, explore it, learn how to work it, and you’ll probably never go back. And if you’re going, use this link so I get credit for inviting you. I have a gold star – I’d like a red. *winks*
  • Twitter
  • iminlikewithyou.com – If there’s a more addictive site for games anywhere let me know. I kick ass @ Gemmers [Like Super Collapse with other players] and love Blockles [like Tetris with other players that can fuck your game up, and vice versa] and Draw My Thing. If you join, add me.
  • Facebook – I fucking hate Facebook. *lol* I’m just a social networking whore.
  • Blogher – I peruse their blog roll quite often.
  • Cre8buzz – I’m not very active, but I’ve found some great blogs there.
  • Jango – Online radio. Not as interactive as last.fm, but the music selection is much better
  • last.fm
  • Pandora – the music player is too big, and you can’t fast forward as often as I’d like, but the usability is great.
  • Statcounter
  • Technorati Blog Reactions
  • Toonlet – thanks to CamiKaos for turning me on to it.
  • Wufoo – it’s what I use for the contact and password request forms.
  • Youtube
  • Vimeo
  • Picnik – I use it to edit all my photos when I’m too lazy to mess with Photoshop.
  • Photobucket
  • Blogcatalog
  • Flixster – I love Flixster. I love movies, so of course I love Flixster
  • Wakoopa – Social software sharing community. I’ve found some great stuff here.
  • Virb*
  • msnbc.com
  • perezhilton.com
  • theybf.com
  • animecrazy.net – I’m a nerd, yes.
  • The alphabetizer – I’m also a dork
  • immoralmc.blogspot.com – I just like to look @ how pretty it was.*sigh*
  • Some other shit that isn’t important…

5. I use Disby and I love it dearly. My Yahoo!, GTalk, AIM, and MSN instant messenger accounts are all connected to it so I can chat to all my contacts with one program, usually in a tabbed window. I also have Facebook, Twitter and MySpace linked to it too so that I’m notified whenever I get a comment or message. Also, Yahoo! and Gmail are there, and I can send emails directly from the application. There are many other cool things about it as well, but you’ll just have to download it to see.

I plan on using a huge chunk of my future student loans to buy a MacBook Pro in the future. Because I’m an idiot. This was a super boring post, eh?

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1 Zoeyjane
@Zoeyjane
June 12, 2008 at 11:10 pm

my bf works at an apple store… i might get a deal. just puttin that out there.

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2 Missy June 12, 2008 at 11:53 pm

Digsby looks great! I’m going to give it a try. Thanks for the link.

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3 Maggie's Mind June 13, 2008 at 12:55 am

You are *such* a busy, busy woman! I will have to check some of those out, especially the newer Firefox. Cool.

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4 Huckdoll June 13, 2008 at 2:26 am

All you do on Facecrack is cattle prod your friends anyway, bitch. Get ready for the super poke! beat down next time I log in, lol.

Pssst…Adobe Photoshop Express blows Picnik out of the water. Pass it on.

You’ve got a lot of shit on your tool bar girl – I have 7 tabs. But the only thing I have that you don’t is the Feedburner subscriber stat thinger.

Firefox…is where it’s at.

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5 Nissa June 13, 2008 at 4:43 am

There is no other browser. Firefox rox.

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6 CableGirl June 13, 2008 at 6:30 am

Holy crap woman!  You have a lot of bookmarks.

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7 Xbox4NappyRash June 13, 2008 at 6:31 am

I can’t believe I’m going to say this to a bird, but thanks for some of those tips….

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8 Nickoal June 13, 2008 at 6:50 am

Never used firefox before, but I love my Safari!! I’ve heard of *most* of those, but certainly not all, but my favourite was The alphabetizer - I think I shall use it often! Thanks lady…

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9 ohmommy
@OHmommy
June 13, 2008 at 6:57 am

I just learned about Firefox last month from Huckdoll.  I wished I would have known about it earlier…. it has instant spell check.

THAT would have saved me a lot while blogging hopping on a Saturday night with vino!

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10 Peter Parkour June 13, 2008 at 8:11 am

Not boring, informative.  Thanks. ;)

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11 the other maria :) June 13, 2008 at 9:50 am

thanks for posting all these links!

I know it’s shameful to admit, but I’m very much tech- and internet-retarded, so I find them especially helpful!

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12 Kim June 13, 2008 at 9:52 am

Never used Firefox.. will check it out when I get home for the laptop..

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13 Kori June 13, 2008 at 9:54 am

I still don’t much like the plurk thing.  Because I don’t understand how it works. At. All.

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14 Captain Steve June 13, 2008 at 10:29 am

On my old computer I used Firefox because I had XP.  Now I have Vista (DAMN  Y?OU MICROSOFT!) and Explorer does most everything Firefox does now.  So I have Firefox, because I downloaded it, but I use Explorer.  Part of me wants to switch just to spite “the man” and the other part is too lazy.  What is this Plurk?

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15 Mrs. Kitty June 13, 2008 at 10:58 am

Duuuuuuuude that is a lot of stuff you have there.  I will be checking out some of it.  I have a MacBook Pro and I don’t know about 1/2 the stuff it can do.  But I LOVE it.

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16 Mika June 13, 2008 at 11:22 am

Adblock Plus is the shit. I couldn’t surf the internet without it!

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17 Sybil Law June 13, 2008 at 1:26 pm

Um, i signed up for Plurk, and the thing crashed while i was doing it, and the damn thing won’t ever let me sign in!

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18 Groovy Mom June 13, 2008 at 1:37 pm

I thought EVERYONE used Firefox.  Amazing how many people still have switched.

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19 Gypsy June 13, 2008 at 1:49 pm

Dammit, no Disby for Mac.

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20 anglophilefootballfanatic June 13, 2008 at 4:03 pm

Plurk reminded me of a ticker tape.  It just kept going and going.  I can’t like it. 
 
And, you’re on Facebook?  Really?  Just kidding.

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21 Avery June 13, 2008 at 4:45 pm

I didn’t think there were that many sites on the whole interweb.  Wow.

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22 the planet of janet June 13, 2008 at 6:09 pm

impressive list.

but plurk still makes me feel like the unpopular kid in junior high. sigh.

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23 Miss June 13, 2008 at 6:14 pm

I love that toon thing!! I’m checking it out now.

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24 amy June 13, 2008 at 8:32 pm

I really am an Internet dumbass!! I know about none of this…

But I do like me some Super Collapse so I’ll have to check out that game. And I’m going to get around to Plurking, as soon as I catch up on my sleep.

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25 Shamelessly Sassy June 13, 2008 at 10:40 pm

I should try digsby. Right now, I use pidgin.  Also, I am a bookmarks whore.  I bookmark all of my fav sites. 

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