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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!

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.

Have you heard about the new blogging craze? Camera Tossing! It actually sounds a little weird. But you'd be amazed at some of the pictures that people have come up with after tossing their camera into the air while it's taking a photo.
I just browsed the Internet with search words "camera tossing" and saw tons of great artwork people have created. And I don't use the word "created" loosely. Some of these people have clearly thrown their cameras into the air knowing ahead of time what will probably come out as the finished product. Click the link above to check out images of camera tossing. You'll be pleasantly surprised!

People that hack websites have way too much spare time on their hands, and have not a care in the world for other people's property or for the damage they cause.

Most hackers consider what they do noble or honorable. As a matter of fact, they think it is their duty to hack websites and expose weaknesses to code. Yet, what they do reaks havoc and damages so many others in the process. They have probably never thought of creating a site of their own to hack so that we non-hacking people don't have to deal with their uncool deeds.

Hackers consider themselves cool, yet what they do is only considered cool in their world, their cyberworld.

True hackers are supposed to have ethics and supposedly care enough about those they hack that they do no harm. Hackers that cross that fine line and do harm, at least in dictionary terms, are considered crackers and care only about themselves. As far as I am concerned, they are the detritus of society. They are hacks.

The Internet is the place to find just about anything. But it is fast becoming an amalgamation of smoke and mirrors.

Websites are being built one after another. Most of them have nothing original about them. They are nothing by mimic-sites. With the creation of Google's Adsense, webmasters, or should I say glorified spammers, create web sites using content from other sites in order to draw traffic their way and earn money off of clicks and impressions. As more and more sites are created, the Internet slowly becomes a cesspool of the same stuff.
The only way to kill off the mimic-sites is to frequent the sites where the original content is created. To do otherwise by creating laws to stop these sites would infringe on freedoms. Sites with original content may one day be obsolete.

Luckily, creative people are out in the world making sites with original content. But it is only a matter of time before get-rich-quick marketers mirror those sites.

Keep the Internet GREEN! Go for original!