Google Chrome is faster on really old computers.

Google Chrome really gets Firefox in performance while using an old computer. If you are using a computer like me, that is about idk about 6 years old. You need Google Chrome because Firefox crashes on slower computers and Google Chrome just seems stable on old computers like this Inspiron E1405. Firefox is amazing on faster computers because you don't need the fastest browser if you computer is very fast. So if you have a computer that is 4 years old or older, use Google Chrome. Thank you for reading my blog and have a nice day.

Learning programming with Rubymonk.

Rubymonk is a website that teaches you the programming language Ruby. I think programming is extremely important, so I started learning how to program with Rubymonk. If you are curious on what this website is go to www.Rubymonk.com. This website is really cool because it has lessons with built in web problems so it can be an interactive learning experience. I spent about 2 and an a half hours on this website, because it is kind of addicting. Just use the hints and the support tab so you don't have to die off learning programming. Thank you for reading my blog and have a nice day.

Thinking about playing Animals Crossing.

Animals Crossing is a game that I had played for years. If you have a Nintendo DS and never heard of this game, you are kind of out of sync. Animals Crossing was the best game ever when it first came out. I still think that Animals Crossing for DS is like the best game ever. I found no games that beat Animals Crossing Wild World in any other way. You can buy it for $20 dollars online and it's very worth it. If you really like the game, you will have to buy another card and build another town. The more DS cards you have the more cities you have. Thank you for reading my blog and have a nice day.

Getting into Skyrim again.

I just started playing Skyrim again yesterday. I didn't play for a while because, I was to low of level to get the elder scroll. I am now level 16 in Skyrim, I gained about 2 or 3 levels so I can continue questing when I am level 25 or higher. I joined the Thieves guild in Riften. Being a part of the Thieves guild, I can earn more money and it gives me something to do. All I want to do right now is to collect gear and level, and also get some healing potions. I will have to say again that Skyrim is my favorite game on Xbox 360 right now. Thank you for reading my blog and have a nice day.

I am starting to read more.

Some people are like me. People like me don't read as often as we should and now I am starting to read more. I think I didn't wanna read when I was little, because the fictional stories were to kiddish to me. I really like the books that are practical and influential. I like the books the grown-ups write, and I don't like the kids books as much as the grown-up books. Reading is very important and you collect a lot of information when your read. If you don't read you lose out on another source of education. It takes a long time to write a book and you can read a book in a week. If you keep reading you are just going to collect years of experience in a year. Thank you for reading my blog and have a nice day.  

Always buy from a trusted seller.

Always buy from a trusted seller because some people may carry counterfeits to make more money of of you. People sell counterfeit stuff, and its hard to believe but its true. Always buy your things from a very good seller with lots of good reviews. I always trust Amazon.com for all my electronics and things. If you are buying this on Amazon, try to buy from the seller Amazon LLC so you don't get counterfeit items. Counterfeit items such as counterfeit batteries may or may not harm your device. Thank you for reading my blog and have a nice day.

Install an Antivirus on Mac.

If you don't have an Antivirus installed on the Mac, you should get a free one at least. The latest Mac Trojan is Flashback. This Trojan infected over 600,000 Macs around the world. If you didn't upgrade your software on your mac recently, you should right now. Also install an Antivirus like Avast. Avast is an Antivirus that I would trust on my Mac or PC. Even though the PC version of the Antivirus is better on the PC, it's a good starter up Antivirus for Mac. Its better to have something than nothing. If you don't have an Antivirus, an unknown virus or something might attack your computer next month. Anything can happen and why take the chance. Thank you for reading my blog and have a nice day.

Print your favorite pictures.

If you are trying to start a photography of some sort, you will have to start making a portfolio and some poster sized pictures that are in a frame. If you are just showing your customers a digital portfolio or what you have done for the past years. It's not good enough. People will treat you more seriously rather than just showing your photos on a digital computer. I honestly think that photos printed out looks better than photos just being on the computer for my opinion. It shows that you care about your work and cherish your work. Some people say that you don't have to spend money to learn. This is true for a lot of times but sometimes you just have to spend money to learn what things mean to you. I don't regret spending $47 dollars of my money on a 20*30 metallic print because it looks great. If you have a image you took that you really love, print and frame the picture in your house. Thank you for reading my blog and have a nice day.

The best game on Wii for my opinion.

The only game that I really really enjoy is Mario Kart. Mario Kart is basically a game that allows you to be a goofy character and you race with go karts and a arsenal of crude weaponry. This game is great for multilayer and is a great party game to entertain guest for hours on end. If you are buying a Wii for the first time, buy this game first! Thank you for reading my blog and have a nice day.   

I fixed an old computer no one is using.

My family discarded this laptop because it was slow. Now it's fast because I updated the service pack to service pack 3 in XP and I installed antivirus software that removed 5 viruses. Now this computer is running fast enough to watch 1080P video with no problem. The antivirus software that I am using, is Avast Free, and Malwarebytes Free. These are the essential free antiviruses that you can get and install your your PC. If you never installed a antivirus software, I bet you 5 dollars that you have at least 1 virus or something. Install the antivirus programs from CNET because its a trusted source for downloads.

Also download CCleaner so you can get rid of caches that is just filling up your hard drive space with crap. Just clean out the cache and you computer will run a lot faster if you have an older computer. The computer that I am using right now is an Inspiron E1405 that my older sister passed on to my sister and my sister passed it on to my mom. My mom got a new computer so she discarded this in a bag and never got used ever sense. I can use this when I am on the go and need a computer to do things. Also defrag you drive with your windows utility so it makes it a little more faster also. Thank you for reading my blog and have a nice day.

Install the BetterPrivacy add-on on Firefox.

If you don't have Firefox for this add-on, I feel bad for you. This add-on drastically improved my Flash Player media performance. I used to wait two minutes for a 1080P video to buffer and sometimes it didn't even buffer. This add-on is the second best add-on in my opinion because it gets rid of lots of LSOs.Wikipedia has a page on these objects. Here's the information about LSOs "Link. LSO stands for Local shared object. It's practically cache from the Flash Player that doesn't get deleted from your Firefox cookie settings. On the (Wikipedia Page on LSOs) is has been said that "local shared objects can be used by web sites to collect information on how people navigate those web sites even if people believe that they have restricted the data collection.

If you install this add-on and your computer is more than 2 years old or even a year old computer, you will have lots of LSO's that add-on can remove for you. I have a promise that it will be safe and will increase your Flash Player performance by a lot if you don't have the latest computer specs. Download BetterPrivacy so you can protect your data and get better performance. Thank you for reading my blog and have a nice day. Personally I think its safe because its just getting rid of super cookies that most people never heard about, because people think they remove all the important cookies from their browser settings. Another name for LSO is flash cookies.

The best browser in my opinion.

What's your favorite browser? Is it Firefox, Chrome, Opera, or even a third party browser? They have lots of Chrome fans and Firefox fans. I am personally using Firefox 24/7, and it's the most reliable browser I have ever used. Firefox only crashed only about 5 times without my consent, and it doesn't really bog down your memory or anything.

I really love all the privacy and cache settings in the Firefox preferences. All the other browsers I have used, has settings to clear cache and history but not when you are closing your browser. If you change the Firefox settings, you can clear cache and history when you close the browser. Also Chrome is a toddler from Google trying to steal all your data and maybe sell off all your personal data one day to the government.

I don't hate Google, but I really don't trust them as I should. Google keeps all your information for a long period of time. I estimate about a year or more, or they just keep forever. Also Google Chrome is a memory hog for everything, it takes lots of CPU power especially if you don't have new computer.

Just use Firefox! I trusted it for year and I will trust for the rest of my life.

Thank you for reading my blog and have a nice day. 

I used a very old lens on my camera.

My dad said that some guy has a 70-200mm for sale. It wasn't really a 70-200mm lens, it was a 80-200mm lens of a aperture of 5 and higher. The lens really wasn't that sharp, and it didn't really meet my standards, but I was really mesmerized that a lens from the 1980's worked on my camera. The lens had an EF mount and I called Canon support and they said that I can use it on my DSLR. I tried it and everything worked, from the auto-focus to the aperture, it work fine but it wasn't sharp. It is nice to know that you can use old EF lenses with your camera. Also I was about to use the flash, but I didn't because online people said that the old flashes has very high voltage. Thank you for reading my blog and have a nice day.

Get more RAM in your computer.

If you have 4GB of ram or less you need more RAM! I used to have 4GB of ram in my imac, and I was sick and tired of waiting for things to get done. Also lots of applications didn't really like that I only had 4GB of ram for my editing software. So I upgraded the ram to 12GB by adding 8GB of RAM to my system. Ive seen a very significant performance and reliability increase by adding my RAM. I think the new standard should be 8GB and that would be enough for everything you need to do. If you only write books on your computer and browse the internet, you should just stick with the 4GB's or RAM in your computer. If you have 2GB or less you will need to upgrade it to at least 4GB of ram. Thank you for reading my blog and have a nice day.

Learn how to edit by watching tutorials on YouTube.

YouTube has the best tutorials ever! The reason why YouTube has the best tutorials ever, because YouTube has really basic tutorials that tells you how to use an editing program from scratch. Learning the basics is really not a bad thing. If you don't know the basics of life, you wouldn't be living right now. The basics is the base of you learning curve. If you don't know the basics, you don't know the programs enough to understand and learn from tutorials.

Also if you are following a tutorial, you have to do the tutorial. If you don't do the tutorial you don't learn, because if you don't do it you don't learn it. You have to learn from doing and listening, you can't follow along while your not paying attention. Thank you for reading my blog and have a nice day.

Taking many photos helps your skill.

I took 850 photos yesterday, and I learned a lot. Little things like; taking the same photo while switching the shutter speed. Just have a big enough memory card, and if your camera shoots raw, make your JPEG size small so you get more out of your card. I also learned that you have to make sure, when you are shooting outside that you try to keep lots of the details in the sky. Also don't bring your tripod when you are wanting to take tons of photos. A tripod really slows you down while you are trying to take hundreds of photos. If you need a tripod though use it. If you don't get the horizon level enough in your photo, just fix it in Adobe Photoshop or Lightroom and you can fix it under ten seconds after you learn how to fix the horizon. They have tutorials on YouTube on how to level the horizon while using Photoshop or Lightroom.

Get a lens with image stabilization; I find this really helpful when you are using your max focal length of your lens without a tripod. I would find that I would buy the more expense lens with the image stabilization if you are going to shoot outside a lot without a tripod.

Always format your card after your done downloading all your photos and video to your computer. If you don't format your card every-time you put it in your camera; you are just risking your data for no good apparent reason. Every-time you shoot format it in your camera, so it can get all the data of the card before shooting some more shots. Also this improves the performance of the card by tons if you are a sports photographer. You should always format your card when you get a new card, check your camera's menu and see the format option. This will delete all your photos so make sure that you downloaded them to your computer first. Thank you for reading my blog and have a nice day.

 

Get the editing software.

Please get the editing software that professionals use. You can get the student edition of the software that cost lots cheaper. I know many people say to you, oh you don't need these "professional" editing tools. I say you get them even if you are new to them. Getting good editing software really opens your mind up to many many possibilities. You can do everything with Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom, and both are different so you can compare the two programs side by side that's better for your workflow. I know that you can make time-lapses very easily with Adobe Lightroom, but it doesn't mean that Photoshop can't do it. I recommend to buy the Adobe collection that meets your needs. Like Adobe Production Premium is heading towards that film-makers out there. Adobe design Premium are heading towards the Web Developers and photo editors. I can't tell you how much things you can learn from these programs, just trust me and buy the darn products when you have the chance. 

Taking photos feels great.

Taking photos is very good for my well being. When I take photos, I feel like I am doing the right thing for the city of Milwaukee. My parents give me so much ideas about taking photos of things like historical and interesting homes, mansions, cemeteries, and Harley Davidson objects. I feel like I progressed a lot sense I got my camera during Christmas. Lots of things takes lots of time to learn, and I want to use my time wisely. As you should also use you time wisely with your passion, or an adventurous hobby. Spend your free time and money on things you love to do. Nobody can stop you, only your spouse can stop you. I would imagine that traveling would really open your mind up to many extraordinary things that regular people don't think about or take for granted.

Don't spend all your life doing same thing you hate. All that matters is your time, money, and happiness. If you not happy, you not living life right and I advise you to be happy and to be joyful by other people. So the happiness can spread all around like melted Swiss Cheese on a sandwich. Do the things you want to do and want to do great. Thank you for reading my blog and have a nice day.    

Editing lots of photos I took.

I took about 250 pictures around my neighborhood. This is my first time taking pictures of other houses, and it's very interesting on how your images will turn out of Photoshop, when you are shooting RAW. I live in Milwaukee, and my neighborhood has historic houses from the 1800's to etc. I am in the editing process now, and I am just learning how to do good things with Adobe Photoshop because I just started editing photos a little while ago. I got some really nice photos, and I also think that I can make an HDR in our neighborhood, or more than one. Keep taking Photos and feel good while taking them, it really changes the mood of the image by your mental stage while your taking your photos. Thank you for reading my blog and have a nice day.

Taking Photos from my balcony

I never thought that I could take so many good photos from my balcony. That's right I got my own balcony. I am high enough on my balcony to see lots of birds, butterflies, and many more that nature still has to give us. I am using the Canon 5D Mark II with a 24-105mm lens, and this lens makes me sad because I have to crop and lose tons of quality instead having a bigger focal length like a 70-200mm lens. 

I have also learned that every-time you take photos and download them onto your computer, you should always format your card before you take pictures again. This brings down the risk of corrupted errors and others things that can risk that photos you are about the take. So always format your card to delete the photos and video off the card. The Canon 5D Mark II is a spectacular camera for shooting birds, even if you use manual focus. Usually birds stay in one play for quite a long time, and you have plenty of time to use your manual focus on your lens. I really think that if I get the 70-200mm lens, the focus issues will be less apparent to the photo. So get a good lens at least 70-200mm, and get a DSLR with a big memory card to get some great stunning photos. Thank you for reading my blog and have a nice day. 

Put healthy food inside your sweet home.

I really miss having so much healthy vegetables, fruits, and oatmeal around the house. It just really saddens me that all I have to eat today, is a cheesy pizza and not hearty oatmeal. Most people don't know that fact when you eat more healthy food, the more quality of person you are. When you eat healthy food you feel empowered that you can do anything. Eating healthy food to me is an assurance that you can do anything and everything that's right for you and others. That's why I have to convince my parents to buy more healthy food, so we can act healthy on a regular basis. Thank you for reading my blog and have a nice day.

I should use Photoshop more often.

You can do a whole bunch of things with Photoshop. If you don't have a photo to edit with, you should just take one off Google images. I think Adobe programs are very educational, because it takes a long time to learn programs. I recommend that you start as soon as you can so you can be more into editing video and photos in the future. A lot of things takes times, especially learning how to make programs manipulate you footage or photos. I recommend you play with the Adobe programs that associate your skills you want. I am going to work with Premiere Pro, Photoshop, and After Effects. These are the programs that I want to be associated with. Thank you for reading my blog and have a nice day.

Fixed my headphone jack problem with my imac 27 inch.

Who would ever think that you headphone jack would act up? Mine did for a while. You should guys should try this, unplug some of your devices you don't use all the time, because all those things connected to your computer take power. In my case I unplugged my USB card reader and the Magic Jack device. Then all of a sudden, the headphone worked properly. I used to have to plug it half way and then put in my headphones into the computer. Now I just have to put my headphones in the computer normally. Thank you for reading my blog and have a nice day.