Facebook: Download your entire history!
Try this out:
- Log in to your Facebook account.
- Click on Account
- Click on Account Settings
- Click on "Learn More" next to "Download your information"
- Click on the "Download" button
You will receive an email with a link to a ZIP file which contains all the information you have put on Facebook: every link, every status update, every picture since you started on Facebook.
I guess this is quite handy. But it is also rather scary how easy it is to create a profile about you in such an easy way.
Warning: You will very likely cringe at some of the stuff you have posted since starting on facebook!
Linux vs. Windows: by a Microsoft Windows user
The PC (Laptop) setup I am using is as follows:
- Compal FL92 Chassis (15" Screen)
- Intel Core 2 Duo T8100 2.1 GHz CPU
- 2GB RAM
- 160GB Hard drive
- Nvidia GeForce 8600M GT
- Atheros AR5007EG Wireless Network Adapter
- Microsoft Windows Vista SP1
Free Games – Gametap Revisited
I wrote an article in early 2008 about GameTap.com to let people know about this free game platform. I didn't realise how popular this article was going to be, it gets large percentage of the hits on my site. I decided it was time to do a follow up article.
Firstly, the paid for service from GameTap does not seem like a good deal to me at all. It is $50 for a years access to all their titles. If this included games from the past 2 years, then I would say this wasn't a bad deal...but this is not the case. Some of the titles available to the premium subscriber are:
- Civilization IV
- Puzzle Quest
- Fallout 2
- Supreme Commander
- Farcry (Great game, but old)
- Race Driver: GRID (This game is actually pretty recent, and brilliant!)
If these games get you excited, then maybe the $50 is cheap to be able to play all tese titles (there are a load more too!)
Sceenshot from GameTap
But, if free games are your thing, then check out the list below. As with my previous article, I won't list ALL the games available on GameTap, so you can have a surprise when you see some of your old favourites. Some of the new games that I have noticed are:
- Soul Reaver 2
- Street Fighter 2: The New Challengers (This game contributed much to my wasted youth!)
- Final Fight
- Karate Champ
- King of Fighters 96
- Joust, Burger Time, Defender (Great NES games)
To get access to these, head over to GameTap.com.
New Browser on the block – Google Chrome
I downloaded the Google Chrome browser (beta) tonight, the big secret project that Google has been working on for years. I am a huge Google fan, not just for searching, but the applications and services are in daily use by me: Google Mail (there isn't an online email that comes close to this! Hotmail feels archaic in comparison.), Calendar (this just works, and collaboration is brilliant.), Docs (all the basic functionality you need in a basic Word Processor), Google Earth (Spent hours playing with this), Google Maps (great service, works better than any other route planner I have used).
Now we have Chrome, and surprise surprise, I love it! As with all Google products, it is clean, quick and does exactly what is required of it...with a few extras thrown in! Switching between IE, Firefox and Chrome, you notice just how uncluttered Chrome is. Ironically enough, this is probably because I have the Google toolbar on IE and Firefox, but not on Chrome (it isn't compatible!). The thing is you don't really need the toolbar with this browser.
This isn't going to be an extensive review, I am just going to mention a few things about it, and hopefully you will download it soon and test it out for yourself. When installing it, it seamlessly imports your settings from your default browser. The first thing you notice is the lack of pretty much anything. See the screen shot below. The front page is a summary type page showing your most visited pages visually (at a glance, so you can see whether there is an update), a search input for your history and list of your most recent bookmarks.
A big departure from the norm is the way tabs are shown. Tabs run along the top of the application, so it feels like each tab is its own browser. Additionally there is the ability to go incognito (the incognito tab). Let’s face it, this is so you can browse porn without any trace of it for your other half to find! No trace is kept when in this mode, no cookies or history.
I still need to spend a lot more time with this browser before deciding whether it will become my default browser. I am interested to see how the community responds with plugins for this browser, and also how Google intend to integrate their other services and apps. The way I see it, I use Google as my primary search engine, and my primary email provider (as well as all the other apps I use of theirs!)...so if Google have an innovative approach to integration of their other products, I think this will definitely become my default browser.