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So I downloaded Google’s new beta browser “Chrome” and all I have to say is “Wow!”

It’s far better than I thought it would be and more.

It’s streamlined, fast, and extremely inutitive. You need to download a copy RIGHT NOW and play with it. I’m using it type this blog entry, I’m so in love with it.

Sure Chrome isn’t as customizable as Firefox or Safari (yet), but it’s version 1 beta. And if I know Google, the company will dramatically improve the browser with every revision. Just look at Gmail, which is the greatest thing since sliced bread when it comes to personal email programs, as far as I’m concerned.

What makes me love Chrome so much, you ask? The answer is simple: simplicity.

The interface makes it a pleasure to use, because it uses tabs that actually look like folder tabs at the top. The browser window is also startingly clutter-free. Its interface is far superior to the safari interface I used to rave about, as well.

So get to downloadin’ foos, and learn what I already know: Chrome Rawks!!1

[UPDATE]: I just made Chrome my default browser on my laptop, knocking Firefox out of that spot. Not because it’s an overall better browser at this point, but simply because it’s easier to use. And I hate having to to actually think while surfing the net.

Now if Google could just do something with that ugly Microsoft-looking Chrome icon, it would be nearly perfect…

So I’m watching the 1980 Superman II movie on TV starring Christopher Reeves, as he battles three latex-suited clownz from his home planet. Jeezis, the action and special effects sucked. Even worse, the acting sucked too!

How did they get funding for this movie and how was it allowed to be released for public viewing in theaters? It’s a far cry from even the painful-to-watch 2006 Superman Returns, starring the stiff-acting Brandon Routh, Kate Bosworth and Kevin Spacey.

All I have to say is: “KNEEL before Zod!!1″ lol.

That is all…

Remember when Apple instantly became a household name by airing the infamous “1984″ commercial during Super Bowl XVIII? The premise was that Microsoft had effectively become Big Brother and Apple was out to set the legions of PC lemmings free of Microsoft’s grip by offering truly user-friendly computers. To reinforce the point, a rather buxom female athlete slings a sledgehammer into a giant television screen, effectively short-circuiting Big Brother’s control.

Well, fast forward nearly a quarter century and Apple’s 1984 vision has finally come to light. People are flocking to Apple computers (as well as iPods and iPhones) like they’re going out of style and abandoning more mundane PCs like rats from a sinking ship.

Ironically, Steve Jobs & Co. almost didn’t pull the trigger on that original 1984 commercial. Company stakeholders so universally panned it during pre-screenings that Jobs seriously considered pulling the commercial altogether. But the commercial time had been bought and Apple aired the commercial just once during the Super Bowl’s third quarter.

But that’s all it took. The commercial was so sensational and profound, it’s been hailed as the greatest television commercial ever, and the rest, as they say, is history. But did that fateful turn of events truly help liberate computer users from Big Brother’s grip after all these years?

Apple, it seems, has become the new Microsoft and is starting to tick off users royally. Case in point: the new iPhone 3G. It’s the perfect phone for anyone wanting to surf the mobile web, due to its oversized touch-screen LCD and superior OSX operating system. But the Jesus phone 2.0 still has a ways to go in the user-friendliness department.

The biggest, yet simplest, example is in the phone’s inability to cut-and-paste text. That’s pure rediculousness in this day and age, but Apple says its not an important function, nor is it high on the company’s to-do-list. The iPhone faithful blindly agree.

Another obvious example Apple is becoming too big for its britches is with the company’s new MobileMe “push email” service. Apple brags that it’s just as good as Research In Motion’s legendary Blackberry push email service, but if you believe that then Dick Cheney has an oil field in Iraq he’d like to sell you.

First of all, MobileMe’s so-called push email capability doesn’t really push anything. It just periodically checks in with email servers during regular intervals. Second, MobileMe doesn’t even work half the time, with subscribers still complaining to this day about regular outages.

So what does Apple do? It chalks it up to planned downtime and says, “We So Sowee,” before calling it a day. That might have flew had it not been for the leaked internal memo from Steve Jobs himself, acknowledging MobileMe(ss) was perhaps released too early. Do you think!?

The proverbial icing on the cake happened last week, when Apple went on to acknowledge it pre-programmed a backdoor into every new iPhone allowing Apple to deactivate any software the company deemed too dangerous or unfit for owners to use.

The announcement came on the heels of the NetShare app fiasco, where Apple brass repeatedly pulled the $10 phone-as-modem app off of Apple’s online app store without any reason. If you don’t know what Phone-as-modem capability is, it allows your phone to serve as a broadband modem connection for your laptop.

Numerous iPhone users dared to openly complain and demanded the app be restored. Meanwhile, Mac lemmings defended Apple’s decision with the most idiotic of reasons, from breach of contract agreements with AT&T to Apple knows best.

JAYZUS CHRAST!!1 I think I know a better reason why Apple pulled the NetShare app: it’s called $$$.

So here we are today: Apple is now the truly hot computer company, launching innovative hardware and software seemingly every other day. But in order to stay in the black and appease company stockholders, Apple has become the Microsoft monster it once despised.

Even worse, Mac fanatics who once embraced “Think Different” don’t embrace anything anymore, except all the talking points constantly beamed out of Steve Jobs’ Reality Distortion Field.

Lucky for you, this Mac fanatic hasn’t gotten caught up in all the hype. Apple is a great company and builds great products, but they also have a responsibility to their customers, not just to the Board of Directors.

So until Apple becomes the cool Apple of old instead of the corporate sell out that it has become, I guess I’ll have to keep wielding my own 90-lb. sledgehammer around.

So Google users suffered sporadic email outages on Monday and subsequently took to the Internet to voice their belly-achin’.

All I have to say is, “Wake up STOOPID peoplez!”

Gmail is F-R-E-E, so quit your bitchin’! And definitely don’t blog on Twitter about your insignificant little problems like these knuckleheads did, because Twitter doesn’t have the greatest of track records itself.

The real problem here is that Gmail has become so ubiquitous and handy — while still maintaining a free price tag — that users have become dependent AND spoiled. Could you imagine a world where you had to rely on AOL mail or Outlook instead? Not me, because everything else SUCKS in comparison.

So if you hate Gmail so much, Mr. or Mrs. Twitterman, give up your email account and leave the server space for the rest of us.

So I have this female friend who wanted computer-buying advice recently. Let’s just call her Jonnie (not her real name but pretty damm close).

She chases me down to grill me about buying a new laptop for school. She wants it to be cheap (but, of course), be able to burn CDs (like, duh), and have wireless networking capability at home (no problemo).

So Jonnie asks what should she buy. I tell her an HP laptop. Any HP laptop, so as long as it’s new and NOT from Best Buy — or should we call the place, Worst Buy, because of their world-famous incompetent customer service?

Regardless, I tell her repeatedly NOT to buy from Worst Buy because her laptop will will eventually need technical support, and Worst Buy is useless for that unless you’re willing to re-mortgage your home to pay them for it.

Then she tells me, “Well, I already spoke to a salesman there and he recommended a…” Speak no further!

“DO NOT BUY FROM WORST BUY!” I tell her again. She says OK, and asks where she should buy from? I tell her any place that sells HP laptops. Wal-Mart, Staples, Circuit City, online retailers, local grocery stores, crack dealer around the corner. ANYWHERE BUT WORST BUY!

Then I tell her NOT to buy a Linksys router because, you guessed it, their technical support sucks. Jonnie chimes in, “but the (Worst) Buy salesguy recommended…” Speak no further, dammit!

I tell her to buy a Belkin router instead, which even Geico cavemen can set up. Jonnie says OK.

Two weeks later, I see Jonnie again. First she tells me she bought the HP laptop from WORST BUY. Then she tells me she bought the LINKSYS router. Then she says she CAN’T get her new router to work. DOH!

I ask her did she even bother listening to a word I said? She replies, yes, but… (then gives me some femininely lame excuse). Then she adds that if she needs technical support “that’s what I have YOU for!”

HELLZ NO WOMAN!!1

You didn’t listen to my advice the first time around. What’s gonna make you pay attention the next time!?

If I wanted to give advice to a woman just to have her ignore me, I’ll go talk to my wife!

OOOOOOOOHHHHH, that made me SO MAAAADDDD!!!1

Weminz is da debil!

Welcome to my blog. If you know who I am (or even if you don’t), then you know I’m a gadget freak and constantly surf the intArwebs on my Blackberry for cool new information to spam my friends with.

Well, now that I have this blog, they can just grab my blog’s cool little RSS feed and get updated automatically, because I’m lazy like that. Woohoo!!1

So once again, welcome to my blog and tell all your friends about it, so they can get in on all the nonsense too!