Google Chrome Is The Fastest Browser On Earth

Google Chrome is the fastest browser on Earth, baby! Don’t believe me? Check out this video and be amazed. This is truly nuts.

Whoh.

Peace, JbB

Watching TV While Takin’ Care Of Business

I’m sick today, so I’m chillin’ in bed today on my laptop. I wanna’ be productive but I also wanna’ watch TV. Our “TV” is driven completely by the internet though. In the living room, we use a media center computer connected to a TV. We watch TV and movies from Hulu (through the program Hulu Desktop) and from Netflix (through the program like Boxee).

I have a media center computer in the bed room connected to our bed room TV, but it’s lacking a decent video card, so when me or my girl wanna’ watch TV in the bed room, we watch from our laptops.

That’s what I was doing last night and today, while sick. But since I wanna’ do some stuff done online, via my laptop, then I can’t watch TV. Or can I? I decided I can do both by simply putting Hulu Desktop in the top half of the screen and putting everything else (Google Chrome) in the bottom half. And it surprising works out great. Normally, when in the living room working from my laptop, I’d have something on Hulu Desktop on the TV and look back and forth between the laptop screen and the TV. Well I’m doin’ now the same thing, lookin’ towards the bottom half of the screen and the top half of the screen. And what’s funny is that the size of the TV window is about the same size as the living room TV’s point of view size when sitting on the couch.

It’s a really great experience. I’m diggin’ it. talk about bein’ productive while veggin’ out.

Peace, JbB

HP Pavilion DV6 Volume Control Problem Solved

The Neonote, my HP Pavilion DV6-1359WM, has a volume control touch pad area located at the top. It stopped working for some reason recently. But it’s not a driver issue or a setting or any of that junk. There’s a real easy fix for it. Here’s how ya do it.

1. Shut down your laptop.
2. Unplug the power.
3. Remove the battery.
4. Push and hold down the power button for 30 seconds.
5. Reinstall the battery.
6. Plug power back in.
7. Cross your fingers.
8. Boot

And that should be it. A real nice ‘n’ easy fix.

Peace, JbB

Google Chrome Full Screen Goodness

Ok, here’s an awesome thing to do. With Google Chrome (my browser of choice, baby), hit your “F11″ key to go into full screen mode. Good, good… that’s full screen, nothin’ new to some people. But, did yo know you can use full screen mode and switch between different browser tabs, all without exiting full screen? Yeah, it’s tight, here’s how ya do it.

Go into full screen and simply hit “Ctrl + Tab”. And bam… you set.

Right now I’m writing this via the Wordpress admin area, while I got Pandora playin’ in another tab (among a few others). Here’s what it looks like.

Look at that full screen goodness. Those are full screen snapshots, not cropped or anything. What’s nice is that, if you got Windows Vista or Windows 7, you can hit the “Start” +  ”Tab” key to go back and forth to different programs without exiting full screen mode. And if you wanna’ create a new tab, just hit “Ctrl” + “T”, as in “Control… Tab! Now!” and you got yourself a groovy ‘nother tab.

I don’t know how to close a tab via command key. Hmm… “Alt” + F4″ is the command key to close a window, so I wonder what “Ctrl” + F4″ does? Yep… figured it out. “Ctrl” + F4″ to close a tab. Nice.

Few more commands at ya, that you outta’ know just because. “Backspace” to go back a page. “Shift” + “Backspace” to move go forward a page.

“F5″ to refresh a page.

“Spacebar” to page down. “Shift” + “Spacebar” to page up.

Google Chrome and full screen… it’s that easy.

Peace, JbB