No Brainer

I have so many browsers on my computer! I use Explorer sometimes, Opera mostly though. At other times, especially when I’m blogging, I use Flock. I’m using it right now!

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Explorer is good because it’s pretty fast at loading some pages. It’s also pretty simple when not loaded to the hilt with the bells and whistles from 3rd-party companies. I hate those things. They usually make the browser work much slower.

Opera on the other hand, works relatively fast, but the latest version seems to have some sort of memory leak somewhere and bogs down, becomes inoperable at times because it is doing something in the background. I had a similar problem with it a few years ago and downloaded the next version and it was fixed. I hope the next update fixes this problem. Opera is my main email software, too! So I cannot do without it.

Flock, however, is a browser I’m beginning to use more and more these days. It loads pretty fast, loads pages pretty quickly, runs without locking up, has tabs (although they do not open when double-clicking the bar like Opera) and has quite a few features built in for blogging.

One of my favorite features is the blogging editor. I can highlight some text and blog it straight to my site to read later for reference. I can also upload photos straight to Flickr and Facebook if I want without having to log into those sites first. It also allows me to drag and drop those photos into my blog articles as I am writing.

The sidebar option is one of the best features in the browser. They are conveniently positioned to the top left where I can quickly click them and open whatever I need to access; Blog Editor, Photo Uploads, Favorites, Facebook and Flickr friends, Feeds and more.

I think Flock is a good mix of Explorer and Opera, the two best browsers out there.

I usually enjoy using the Internet, but there are times when I just can’t stand it! And right now is one of those times!

The Internet brings a plethora of things to our home, good and bad. But the bad stuff is not what I hate so much right now. Of course, don’t get me wrong, I do hate the bad stuff. But right now, what I hate so much is the fact that the Internet isn’t working!

I don’t know why, but sometimes I cannot get any Internet. I have tried solving this issue, but never found a remedy! I’ve called my ISP and asked them tons of questions, at which time they asked me equally if not more questions. In the end, neither of us ever found the answer we were looking for. I’ve even had them call NTT to ask them if they were experiencing problems on their end. Once they found a problem and resolved it. But since then, they’ve said there were no problems on their end or mine and have never helped resolve my problem.

I’m actually writing this post using Windows Live Writer so that when Internet does come back for me, I will have this written and ready to post. So if you can read this, then Internet came back long enough to post this. Which can also mean, you may be able to read this, but I still can’t because the page won’t load on my end! Sometimes uploading is okay, but downloading information just doesn’t work!

Have you ever had problems with your Internet? Ever experience downtime, either short or long, called your ISP and phone company and found the answer to your problem? If so, then let me know. I’d love to hear how you resolved the issue. Maybe I can use the answer to your problem to solve mine! So then I can get back to doing something I enjoy like surfing the Internet and actually reading and seeing stuff instead of twiddling my fingers waiting for the bytes to come pouring into my computer!