Today I found the task manager...
And memory info...
and dev tools...
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Day 7!!
I finally realized I could find keyboard shortcuts for Pg Up, Pg Dn, Home, End, etc... Made my life a whole lot easier.
I didn't use this much yesterday because I finally had some work to do. I haven't yet tried to figure out how to do web development on the Cr-48 so I had to return to the ol' Windows.
I'm doing a job that "requires" Expression Web. There's not much getting around that. Also had to use Skype yesterday.
I didn't use this much yesterday because I finally had some work to do. I haven't yet tried to figure out how to do web development on the Cr-48 so I had to return to the ol' Windows.
I'm doing a job that "requires" Expression Web. There's not much getting around that. Also had to use Skype yesterday.
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Day 5
Where did day 4 go? Who knows.
I had the chance to show off the Cr-48 to some classmates today. Interesting experience, having one of these in a room full of CSCI majors. I feared for its safety and left shortly after.
No real complaints today. Last night I realized you could have multiple windows, so now I'm playing around with that.
I just noticed that there's an update to be had. I'll get that later tonight and hope nothing breaks.
I had the chance to show off the Cr-48 to some classmates today. Interesting experience, having one of these in a room full of CSCI majors. I feared for its safety and left shortly after.
No real complaints today. Last night I realized you could have multiple windows, so now I'm playing around with that.
I just noticed that there's an update to be had. I'll get that later tonight and hope nothing breaks.
Sunday, December 12, 2010
Day 3
This webcam would be so much more awesome if I could actually use it without having to log into some website first... Can't I just take a picture?
On that subject, why can't I use Skype?? There's no Skype web app for the Cr-48. No way to use it. Lame.
New topic: battery!
It's pretty amazing. I currently have 62% remaining and 5 hours and 20 minutes left to go. LOVE IT.
On that subject, why can't I use Skype?? There's no Skype web app for the Cr-48. No way to use it. Lame.
New topic: battery!
It's pretty amazing. I currently have 62% remaining and 5 hours and 20 minutes left to go. LOVE IT.
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Day 2
First of all, this thing is definitely a bit hot right now and I've only had it on my lap for 15 minutes.
Anyway, today I took the Cr-48 on a trip to the outside world. I went to Best Buy to pick up a few things and carried this around with me to reference things I'd seen online. I activated the free 100 MB of Verizon Wireless 3G on the way to the store (while riding, not driving). I didn't have any trouble with it. I got great signal throughout the ride and in the store.
I love how easy this thing is to carry around, even with one hand, while navigating a busy Best Buy.
I still haven't had much time to try out apps/extensions/stuff but I hope to next week some time.
Two other people have logged into Google on it and no problems so far.
So far, I'm still loving it. :)
Anyway, today I took the Cr-48 on a trip to the outside world. I went to Best Buy to pick up a few things and carried this around with me to reference things I'd seen online. I activated the free 100 MB of Verizon Wireless 3G on the way to the store (while riding, not driving). I didn't have any trouble with it. I got great signal throughout the ride and in the store.
I love how easy this thing is to carry around, even with one hand, while navigating a busy Best Buy.
I still haven't had much time to try out apps/extensions/stuff but I hope to next week some time.
Two other people have logged into Google on it and no problems so far.
So far, I'm still loving it. :)
Friday, December 10, 2010
Uh, Google?
I know you said these things would give no leg burn, but my Cr-48 is getting a tad warm.
It's nothing compared to the fire of my old laptop. It would be comforting if I were sitting outside typing this, though.
Just saying.
It's nothing compared to the fire of my old laptop. It would be comforting if I were sitting outside typing this, though.
Just saying.
Day One, Part 3
Now I'll get into more detailed thoughts.
Keep in mind that the computer I used before this was an Acer Aspire that refused to awaken from sleep and kinda sucked in general.
One of the things that is hard to get used to is the keyboard changes. The caps lock button is now a search button. I'm so used to using ctrl + t to open a new tab and search from the address bar that I'm finding it hard to use the new dedicated search button. Also, this is silly but the backspace button is a lot farther away than my old computer. So that's rough.
I love having back, forward, refresh buttons. No more hunting down two buttons at a time! I only need the one. My old computer had some wack volume buttons, too. These are much nicer.
The touch pad is hard to get used to. The whole thing is clickable and it doesn't respond when there are more than one finger trying to move at the same time on it. I've grown to love it, though. I like how two-finger scrolling works much better on the Cr-48 than my old computer. Right clicking (which is achieved by clicking with two fingers at once) is still a bit tricky. Maybe tomorrow I'll get the hang of it.
I miss the following buttons: home, end, pg up, pg down. I liked being able to get back to the top of FB, Twitter, etc... after scrolling for pages and pages. Hope I find a way around that soon.
I tried using Hulu because I'd heard it didn't work out so well. Sure doesn't. It loads very slowly and the video is jerky. Audio is fine.
I am in the process of trying out all the apps available in the Chrome store.
If anyone has something they'd like me to try on the Cr-48, let me know!
Keep in mind that the computer I used before this was an Acer Aspire that refused to awaken from sleep and kinda sucked in general.
One of the things that is hard to get used to is the keyboard changes. The caps lock button is now a search button. I'm so used to using ctrl + t to open a new tab and search from the address bar that I'm finding it hard to use the new dedicated search button. Also, this is silly but the backspace button is a lot farther away than my old computer. So that's rough.
I love having back, forward, refresh buttons. No more hunting down two buttons at a time! I only need the one. My old computer had some wack volume buttons, too. These are much nicer.
The touch pad is hard to get used to. The whole thing is clickable and it doesn't respond when there are more than one finger trying to move at the same time on it. I've grown to love it, though. I like how two-finger scrolling works much better on the Cr-48 than my old computer. Right clicking (which is achieved by clicking with two fingers at once) is still a bit tricky. Maybe tomorrow I'll get the hang of it.
I miss the following buttons: home, end, pg up, pg down. I liked being able to get back to the top of FB, Twitter, etc... after scrolling for pages and pages. Hope I find a way around that soon.
I tried using Hulu because I'd heard it didn't work out so well. Sure doesn't. It loads very slowly and the video is jerky. Audio is fine.
I am in the process of trying out all the apps available in the Chrome store.
If anyone has something they'd like me to try on the Cr-48, let me know!
Day One, Part 2
I've never been so excited about owning a piece of technology IN MY LIFE (sidenote: I tried to hit the Caps Lock button just now, but Cr-48 definitely doesn't have one of those).
My poor cat ran and hid when I screamed and jumped and hyperventilated while opening the box.
I was in awe as I plugged it in and hit the power button delicately (because that's how the paperwork told me to hit it). I spazzed out as it started up and gave me instructions on how to use it.
My new Google account picture is quite insane. My hair's all tousled and I'm still in my PJs and I couldn't be bothered to fix either of these things before taking a new account pic.
After doing that much, I shut the lid and walked off to study for a software engineering exam that I had to take in an hour. Sad.
When I got home, I spent another hour or so playing around on the Cr-48 before I had to buckle down and write a 6-10 page paper about ethics for another final exam.
By the way, Google, it kinda sucks for me that you sent me this right in the middle of final exam week. I can't concentrate on anything that isn't the computer in my hands. :)
So the first real task I attempted on the Cr-48 was to write this ethics paper. I am a frequent user of Google Docs but hadn't really used it to do something this important before. I'm more used to formatting my papers in Microsoft Word and it's easier in Word to see what my paper will look like before printing.
I ran into a couple of problems while trying to write this paper in the cloud. First of all, there were several times in this 3 hour period that Google Docs would stop allowing me to type and give me this error: "Trying to reach Google.com". The first time I waited for it to work again, but it never did. I reloaded the page and lost a couple of my latest sentences.
The second, third, tenth time this happened I selected all, copied, pasted into an email draft everything that I had written to prevent the loss of new material. All good. However, why is this happening in the first place? I've never had this problem when using Google Docs with any other computer/browser/OS.
Aside from that, writing a paper in Google Docs wasn't that difficult. Being able to see the print preview would have been more helpful if it didn't take so long to show the preview. I liked being able to write everything and see it all together without page breaks. Not too shabby.
For more interesting info, see next post. :)
My poor cat ran and hid when I screamed and jumped and hyperventilated while opening the box.
I was in awe as I plugged it in and hit the power button delicately (because that's how the paperwork told me to hit it). I spazzed out as it started up and gave me instructions on how to use it.
My new Google account picture is quite insane. My hair's all tousled and I'm still in my PJs and I couldn't be bothered to fix either of these things before taking a new account pic.
After doing that much, I shut the lid and walked off to study for a software engineering exam that I had to take in an hour. Sad.
When I got home, I spent another hour or so playing around on the Cr-48 before I had to buckle down and write a 6-10 page paper about ethics for another final exam.
By the way, Google, it kinda sucks for me that you sent me this right in the middle of final exam week. I can't concentrate on anything that isn't the computer in my hands. :)
So the first real task I attempted on the Cr-48 was to write this ethics paper. I am a frequent user of Google Docs but hadn't really used it to do something this important before. I'm more used to formatting my papers in Microsoft Word and it's easier in Word to see what my paper will look like before printing.
I ran into a couple of problems while trying to write this paper in the cloud. First of all, there were several times in this 3 hour period that Google Docs would stop allowing me to type and give me this error: "Trying to reach Google.com". The first time I waited for it to work again, but it never did. I reloaded the page and lost a couple of my latest sentences.
The second, third, tenth time this happened I selected all, copied, pasted into an email draft everything that I had written to prevent the loss of new material. All good. However, why is this happening in the first place? I've never had this problem when using Google Docs with any other computer/browser/OS.
Aside from that, writing a paper in Google Docs wasn't that difficult. Being able to see the print preview would have been more helpful if it didn't take so long to show the preview. I liked being able to write everything and see it all together without page breaks. Not too shabby.
For more interesting info, see next post. :)
Day One
I have had my Cr-48 for approximately 10 hours. Ten amazing hours.
It all started around ten this morning. I opened my door to see a UPS man on the other side with a large box. I signed for the package and brought it inside, wondering which Christmas present I'd bought for someone else had arrived.
Little did I know, this box was better than that... This box contained a Christmas miracle. My very own Cr-48 Google Chrome OS notebook.
It is beautiful. It is soft. I want to take it with me everywhere (and so far I have).
How I ended up with one of these, I am unsure. Last week I filled out a quiz on Facebook about living on the web. I was under the impression that I was typing my address and phone number in to receive a Chrome sticker in the mail. I have heard rumor that this is one way people receive their Cr-48.
Two days ago, I filled out an application to join the pilot program. I figured I was one of thousands and there's no way they'd pick me. Guess I got lucky!
It all started around ten this morning. I opened my door to see a UPS man on the other side with a large box. I signed for the package and brought it inside, wondering which Christmas present I'd bought for someone else had arrived.
Little did I know, this box was better than that... This box contained a Christmas miracle. My very own Cr-48 Google Chrome OS notebook.
It is beautiful. It is soft. I want to take it with me everywhere (and so far I have).
How I ended up with one of these, I am unsure. Last week I filled out a quiz on Facebook about living on the web. I was under the impression that I was typing my address and phone number in to receive a Chrome sticker in the mail. I have heard rumor that this is one way people receive their Cr-48.
Two days ago, I filled out an application to join the pilot program. I figured I was one of thousands and there's no way they'd pick me. Guess I got lucky!
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