Kevin Littleton

I love being able to explore new avenues of thought. I love trying new foods and talking to new people. 

I love to explore nature. And I love listening to new music. 

Put that into a big bag and hug it. I do. 

Not that I don't like the rain. I love it and look forward to it. Soon I will be out in the thick of it. 

I need to consume my music much more visually. I would like to buy more concerts and have them running during the day and night instead of the bullshit that is television. 

Television sucks your brain dry. But I do like the rain. Happy, happy. 

I was in love once with a music streaming service until it fell into the hands of Apple Corporation and sold out for not even that much.

Perhaps you have not heard of lala.com but that is OK because it does not even matter anymore. I wonder why I must tell this tale of sadness but maybe due to the fact that I'm finishing up finals week and floating around in a perpetual state of bliss that I want to get this one thing off my chest. 

lala.com (not capitalized because of their awesomeness) was a service that I fell in love with. There were many reasons as to why I fell so hard but the biggest was probably the fact I had a netbook. lala.com is a music service that lets you buy music for dirt cheap but you can only listen to it when on their website. At 10 cents a song who wouldn't take advantage? We're all connected to the internet 99% of the time anyway so what could be the downfall? The other neat thing was the fact that you could let lala scan a folder on your hardrive and upload all your music to their site so you could listen to it anywhere, on any computer with speakers.

Doesn't this sound good? For someone that uses a netbook most of the and likes to move around a lot it's genius. They even had an iPhone app on the way. 

Apple bought the company simply for the engineers and for a ridiculous price. I couldn't have been more upset. What was to become of my beloved lala.com? Of course I'm sure the iPhone app is now no more. The reason for this being that Apple wants to dig their big toe into the cloud music arena with iTunes. 

I do not want to go to iTunes.com and stream my music. Why? Because I much rather type in lala.com and not be bogged down with iTunes and Quicktime ads. I love the underdog but when the underdog is no more and now a major corporation I get sad, very sad. 

Jolicloud is a lightweight netbook operating system. It's totally free and installs in minutes. Once installed you are able to boot up your computer with a choice of either Windows (or whatever you have on your netbook before) or Jolicloud. 

Jolicloud is sort of in the same vein as the Google Chrome OS but rather than only having web apps to power your system, Jolicloud is able to run native clients or programs. 

I am on my netbook full time with a backup laptop of ancient qualities (I think it was built by the Mayans). So, I'm considering making Jolicloud my default or main operating system. I don't miss much from Windows XP. Most of my time spent on the computer is on the internet anyway. I already used a lot of online applications to do my day to day work and I don't use Photoshop or anything heavy. 

Jolicloud is simple, lightweight and fast. I had some strange bugs going on with Google Chrome under Windows XP but they disappear under Jolicloud. Apps are a breeze to install and the library is pretty solid. Of course not everything is there but some substitutes are actually pretty nice and fun to play around with. 

Jolicloud makes my netbook feel young again. I'm going to give it a few days and see if I can make the switch. 

If you have a netbook you should definitely play around with Jolicloud.

There are a lot of reasons why I love Google's Chrome browser. I like anything Google so it already earns bonus points but other than that fact it's blazing fast and light. It's a perfect for my netbook which I'm using full time. 

Firefox on the other hand has a special place in my life. I love it too. It was my first browser after IE and when I discovered it I also discovered that I was a geek. I never looked back and have enjoyed my life as a geek ever since. 

There are only two reasons why I am on uneven about what browser I should double click on when I start my computer in the morning. Firefox does three things that Chrome will not:

I have a feeling that now that Chrome Extensions are out two of those will be cleared up at some point. Until then I guess I will have to teeter todder on the fence and open up Firefox when the need arises. My god, life is just so difficult.