Review FireFox

It Can import information from the other browsers you use now, Very nice.

The First thing that happened after downloading and opening the first time was something other than me tried to make Firefox my main browser which I did not like.

It did not even ask something loaded and I had to click out of it.

Next there is a blue circle of on one of the tools it has 3 horizontal lines

I keep trying to get rid of it by clicking but it just continues to open options.

I turn off Firefox with the power button in the menu which is weird but not bad seems kind of unnecessary.

Really not happy with Firefox at the moment because now it is asking to set as default browser after stopping it the first time.

But I can stop it from asking when I uncheck the box in the pop-up so that good.

My main test for any browser is how it runs YouTube, It is where I go the most and loading videos is a good test.

I clicked a video and now it wants me to change setting on something it disappeared after like 3 seconds even though the video is fine.

There is also another block asking to allow to run NVIDIA 3D Vision which I have off because I don’t have a 3d TV.

I change the video to HD it still works fine I click full screen and now there’s a pop-up on the video I have setting it place after the first one and it still keeps popping up.

It is not bad but I am so use to google chrome and there are no pop-up after the first time it is still better in my opinion.

The only problem with this is the Pop-up thing is huge compared to google Chromes.

After checking a review on Firefox it says that it is the fastest internet browser a little ahead of Google Chrome which I have not really see but its only faster by .01 seconds so it will not be very visible at the start.

It has a unique feature “sticky notes” to help with research online.

Its security as integrated private browsing, Protects against Virus, Spyware etc

The actual look is also very similar to Google Chrome

Apache OpenOffice

The Install prep looks alright the Unpack instead of Next kind of threw me off.

It loads pretty fast, User Name: and Organizations: thing is pretty normal for things like this.

Another pop-up with typical and Custom…again typical instead of normal is kind of weird.

It is installing now after it just downloaded it could just be wording,No it is installing again.

There was no do you want to run pop-up after install.

Now I have to set up and register not liking this one.

It open to 6 different options text Document, Drawing, Spreadsheet, Presentation, Database and Formula it is weird to have All of these in one program but let’s see.

After closing the Text document it goes back to the option page makes things easier than closing everything.

There is also a complicated look properties bar on the side.

Text

Look fine looks like 2010 or a little later word has everything there and has no delay on typing.

Spreadsheet

Sends you to an Excel like spreadsheet just looks older nothing really to say.

Presentation

Instead of just going to a power point still page there is a pop-up that should not be there in my opinion a lot of this is for how the presentation looks which should be after you are in the presentation.

Drawing

I guess it is supposed to be adobe illustrator I tried use the drawing to but it looks terrible in comparison.

And the simple design actually made it harder to understand what was going on.

Database

The right side of the options so far seem very bad. With this one you cannot even get a with database without saving nothing and you cannot even use it without Java runtime environment.

Formula

It is the exact same page as database without the down side.

This is worst one that I have done this should be 3 different software. The first 3 are fine together.

Drawing should be by itself and Database and Formula I don’t even know but with how they look they should be together or just formula. 

AbiWord

I have no idea what this is other than Free Microsoft word so hear it goes.

Other than being really nervous download all these different software, I don’t feel that I need them. I already have Microsoft word and I did not pay too much for it. 

I am downloading Abiword know and I notice it has a very old looking set-up page.

It is installing but after making a few folders it stopped for a few seconds and complete shortly after.

It gives the basic complete and do you want to run the program so I start it up.

I can see why I thought the setup pop-up looked old, Abiword looks ancient compared to the 2013 version of Microsoft word it looks like old Notepad with a few Word tabs.

I try using it a complete new pop-up for Abi shows up after hitting new instead of the old one closing which is good and bad.

It has all the basic functions and you can do most if not everything that you can do in Microsoft

I don’t like it myself but if someone cannot afford Microsoft work I can see why they would go with this one.

Third Post

5 Web 2.0 Tools to use in your classroom

http://youtu.be/l_GjC6BLmJk
I really like this one, it is 5 minutes and it shows 5 Web 2.0 tools but it also show kids at a young age using them and even making blogs. It also shows some of the projects that this person has been using in his classrooms.

Second Post

Are video games art?

This is the title of another blog That I have read by Nicholas Deleon. This blog was written in response to someone named Roger Ebert and his opinion on Video games never being considered art.Nicholas Deleon had a very good response although at times I wondered if he even wanted to write this blog. Giving the Latin definition of Art as just something to do with Arm showed that he did his research but the "Who Cares" feeling that this blog had kind of made me want to not read this
one.

First Blog

"Pizza, Beer, Glory, And The All-Night London Hackathon"

The Above is the title of a short blog that I read by Alex Wilhelm. After reading this blog I had two question and that is what was a "Hackathon" and why was there not more about what they were doing. A Hackathon by definition is when a group of programmers, developers and managers get together to collaborate on software projects.  There did not seem like a need or purpose for this blog other than to say there was pizza, beer, a robot spider and some questions.