The Cooling Effect
19th July 2005, Tuesday
One more from now I would be all gear up for my "nihon ryoko"...but 31 days from then today, I just gotta stick to my daily routine as once again back to work after the 3 days sabbatical...
For the last few days our island has been enveloped within a state of cooling atmosphere due to the monsoon rain and storm much unlike the humidity my dear friend is suffering from in Osaka...
Well we had been abused by a long overdued arid weather for like months now (since the start of the Lunar New Year), so we are much thankful for this nice barrage of rain and especially strong, cool breeze...We must also be thankful we aren't at the brunt of mother's nature twist of fate like in certain parts of Taiwan, been tormented by bad weather due to typhoon... well I am expecting no less from my forthcoming trip as I had experienced last year the typhoon Japan can be receiving as well...
One very interesting article from C/Net regarding the top 10 downloads in the past 10 years..
Well with the world now so much connected with the internet, such freewares are well been adored and appreciated by users worldwide, which is why the likes of ICQ, Winamp, Winzip, Firefox, Acrobat Reader etc. have been so popularly use.
Looking through the list, surely shows advant garde softwares to bring so much joy and convenience over the years...
Well I have used like 7 of the 10 featured and sort of able to relate to my own history of dabbling in the cyberspace:
I think it all started in 1998 or 1999 when my household finally got a Pacific Internet Dial-up subscription plan.
At 56kps that time, it was well enough to maintain my random web surfing and occasional downloading of mp3s (which is well legal back then).
Of course with the explosion of mp3s back then, I like many would download free players like Winamp as well as Sonique both which are well adequate and loaded with a library of downloadable skins to lighten up the environment a bit.
Chatting was like the "in" for a few years at that time with "Internet Relay Chat" been the most popular. There were also chatrooms where I met some of my closer friends now (the DJ Su fanclub days). But ICQ has to be the most important tool to own as it enables every mothers' sons in your list to get a clue of your status (i.e. confirm your existence as well)...
We can chat in our self created ICQ chatrooms, transfer and share files and for me even confess my adoration to one of my million targets via the messaging tool....
Over the years many softwares like Yahoo Messenger and now MSN Messenger has tried to dislodge the grand master of them all..
I guess I would still be using ICQ regularly is not for the high processing memory it needs as compared to MSN...
Winzip (and eventually RAR) and Acrobat Reader are essential tools because without them a bot of files cannot be accessed.
Real Mediaplayer was really cool to watch all my J-pop/J-rock MVs in at a fraction of the size needed to encode videos in avi in the past. Even now Mediacrop radio is endorsing RealPlayer to broadcast their online airplay with increased stability as compared to the past.
Come on, everyone is almost well guilty of using "peer to peer" softwares at certain point in their internet records. I was too late into the Napster but used it's successor Kazaa pretty much when I was at the transition stage from dial-up to broadband.
Finally I found my calling when limitless selection of anime series were made available using a certain P2P tool known as bittorrent, the rest is history...
In 2003 I bought my iPod which is a prized asset of mine for now because as Tower Records said, "No Music, No Life".
The free media player included in the package for Windows environment was MusicMatch Jukebox which was a sucky tool because of the difficulties to arrange the playlist in the fashion you want, as well as deleting songs you don't want from the hard disk.
But when recommended to use a Windows-friendly iTunes, i was exhilerated with the ease of usage because iPod & iTunes are a pair made for each other unlike been a strange bedfellow with the MusicMatch Jukebox.. Not only now I can do all I mentioned above, I can easily encode the tracks with Chinese or Japanese wordings which is another feature the jukebox could not provide.
Modzilla's FireFox web explorer exploded into the scene 1 or 2 years back and gosh it had really manage to dislodge Netscape and even IE.
The rarity of pop-ups was well appreciated but before I switch over domestically I used to have security problem as well as Java problem with my IE but in FireFox all are solved...
Really like the "Open in new Tab" function, surely allows one to open many webpages without the same number of applications to overload the task bar...
Talking abuot Pop-ups and spywares, one always have to cautious on the vicious invasion in this time and space, so Ad-Aware is supposedly a cool software to prevent those but I had been using Spybot since introduced by Loke years back, and I'm please with it, so it stays since...
Of course there is a need for a good Firewall tool as well as Anti-virus software but free downloadable ones are very hard to find as usual...
Last but not least, Skype is supposedly a revolutionary internet telephony program which would cost peanuts (sorry not the 600K type) as compared to actual overseas call. My buddy used to urge me to get this going since he doesn't have easy access to telephone over at Osaka..But it didn't realize and we find MSN Msger more than adequate to keep in contact, so didn't get that as well
Hmm..there you go..just don't know what kind of convenient freewares are available in the next decade which can be as out of this world as their predecessors have done...
One more from now I would be all gear up for my "nihon ryoko"...but 31 days from then today, I just gotta stick to my daily routine as once again back to work after the 3 days sabbatical...
For the last few days our island has been enveloped within a state of cooling atmosphere due to the monsoon rain and storm much unlike the humidity my dear friend is suffering from in Osaka...
Well we had been abused by a long overdued arid weather for like months now (since the start of the Lunar New Year), so we are much thankful for this nice barrage of rain and especially strong, cool breeze...We must also be thankful we aren't at the brunt of mother's nature twist of fate like in certain parts of Taiwan, been tormented by bad weather due to typhoon... well I am expecting no less from my forthcoming trip as I had experienced last year the typhoon Japan can be receiving as well...
One very interesting article from C/Net regarding the top 10 downloads in the past 10 years..
Well with the world now so much connected with the internet, such freewares are well been adored and appreciated by users worldwide, which is why the likes of ICQ, Winamp, Winzip, Firefox, Acrobat Reader etc. have been so popularly use.
Looking through the list, surely shows advant garde softwares to bring so much joy and convenience over the years...
Well I have used like 7 of the 10 featured and sort of able to relate to my own history of dabbling in the cyberspace:
I think it all started in 1998 or 1999 when my household finally got a Pacific Internet Dial-up subscription plan.
At 56kps that time, it was well enough to maintain my random web surfing and occasional downloading of mp3s (which is well legal back then).
Of course with the explosion of mp3s back then, I like many would download free players like Winamp as well as Sonique both which are well adequate and loaded with a library of downloadable skins to lighten up the environment a bit.
Chatting was like the "in" for a few years at that time with "Internet Relay Chat" been the most popular. There were also chatrooms where I met some of my closer friends now (the DJ Su fanclub days). But ICQ has to be the most important tool to own as it enables every mothers' sons in your list to get a clue of your status (i.e. confirm your existence as well)...
We can chat in our self created ICQ chatrooms, transfer and share files and for me even confess my adoration to one of my million targets via the messaging tool....
Over the years many softwares like Yahoo Messenger and now MSN Messenger has tried to dislodge the grand master of them all..
I guess I would still be using ICQ regularly is not for the high processing memory it needs as compared to MSN...
Winzip (and eventually RAR) and Acrobat Reader are essential tools because without them a bot of files cannot be accessed.
Real Mediaplayer was really cool to watch all my J-pop/J-rock MVs in at a fraction of the size needed to encode videos in avi in the past. Even now Mediacrop radio is endorsing RealPlayer to broadcast their online airplay with increased stability as compared to the past.
Come on, everyone is almost well guilty of using "peer to peer" softwares at certain point in their internet records. I was too late into the Napster but used it's successor Kazaa pretty much when I was at the transition stage from dial-up to broadband.
Finally I found my calling when limitless selection of anime series were made available using a certain P2P tool known as bittorrent, the rest is history...
In 2003 I bought my iPod which is a prized asset of mine for now because as Tower Records said, "No Music, No Life".
The free media player included in the package for Windows environment was MusicMatch Jukebox which was a sucky tool because of the difficulties to arrange the playlist in the fashion you want, as well as deleting songs you don't want from the hard disk.
But when recommended to use a Windows-friendly iTunes, i was exhilerated with the ease of usage because iPod & iTunes are a pair made for each other unlike been a strange bedfellow with the MusicMatch Jukebox.. Not only now I can do all I mentioned above, I can easily encode the tracks with Chinese or Japanese wordings which is another feature the jukebox could not provide.
Modzilla's FireFox web explorer exploded into the scene 1 or 2 years back and gosh it had really manage to dislodge Netscape and even IE.
The rarity of pop-ups was well appreciated but before I switch over domestically I used to have security problem as well as Java problem with my IE but in FireFox all are solved...
Really like the "Open in new Tab" function, surely allows one to open many webpages without the same number of applications to overload the task bar...
Talking abuot Pop-ups and spywares, one always have to cautious on the vicious invasion in this time and space, so Ad-Aware is supposedly a cool software to prevent those but I had been using Spybot since introduced by Loke years back, and I'm please with it, so it stays since...
Of course there is a need for a good Firewall tool as well as Anti-virus software but free downloadable ones are very hard to find as usual...
Last but not least, Skype is supposedly a revolutionary internet telephony program which would cost peanuts (sorry not the 600K type) as compared to actual overseas call. My buddy used to urge me to get this going since he doesn't have easy access to telephone over at Osaka..But it didn't realize and we find MSN Msger more than adequate to keep in contact, so didn't get that as well
Hmm..there you go..just don't know what kind of convenient freewares are available in the next decade which can be as out of this world as their predecessors have done...
Japanese word of the day: インターネット ~in-taa-netto~ (Internet) how crucial it is to my life
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