A few months ago I posted on how I switched back to Chromium because of the speeds and the fact that it had extensions. Up until a few weeks ago, I still used Chromium, but once Safari 5 was released a few days ago, I quickly switched back. The new version of Safari 5 is a huge improvement from Safari 4 in terms of speed, and now that extensions have been added to Safari, it’s been making my life much easier, and most of the extensions are from Chrome and Firefox.

I’ve definitely been enjoying Safari 5 – It’ll take a lot to get me to switch away again!

I always love listening to music, whether it’s online music from Pandora or music from my iTunes library, I always enjoy music. The other day I came across an Online Radio music station called Universal Dance Stage. The station provides two different stations, and one live station at times, in case you get tired of the first one. You can also get the station in different qualities in case your internet can’t handle an HD station.

I definitely recommend this station, the music overall is great and relaxing!

As you all know I’ve always been using Safari ever since the first day I’ve had a Mac, which was 2 years ago. I’ve tried every browser out there, too, to see how it competes with Safari. Quite honestly, none of them really impressed me to the point that I would permanently switch to that browser. Before yesterday, Chrome was the closest browser to being my #1 (Firefox dead last) and after trying out Chromium (which isn’t exactly Chrome but it’s pretty darn close) I’ve decided to switch my main browser to Chromium. Google’s official Chrome browser is good, but it still isn’t 100% worthy enough for me to switch my main browser to. Chromium, however, is, and I definitely enjoy using it. The default theme almost looks like I’m using Safari too, so thats a great positive aspect as well.

I’ll let you all know via Twitter if I ever decide to switch back to safari for whatever reason. But for now, Chromium is my official browser.

I’ve always been skeptical of putting ads on my website. You read the title, and the first sentence, so you know exactly where I’m going with this. Yes. I’ve finally decided to put advertisements on MacSlice as a way to monetize on the site. How many will I put? As of now, only one. Maybe as the site expands more I may put 1 or 2 more towards the bottom of the page. But for now, just one ad on the top right.

I’m usually not a person who is into reading books. Mostly I listen to some audiobooks occasionally from time to time, in which most deal with political and governmental stuff. Today, though, a friend of mine gifted me a book called 2010: Take Back America: A Battle Plan by Dick Morris and Eileen McGann. The book is mostly about talking how Obama’s economic plans and his policies will lead the United States to become a Western Europe Socialist country. Looking through the table of contents, towards the end of the book it also talks bout what we can do in order for Obama not to impose these plans, and how we can “take our country back”. The main author of this book, Dick Morris, was Bill Clinton’s primary adviser during the Clinton presidency. I recommend this book to anyone looking for a good political book that doesn’t stretch the truth like Sean Hannity or Bill O’Riley do. Must read!

You can buy the Book or the Audiobook from Amazon Here:

For some reason this week went by flying for me. Everyone says it went by really slow, but considering how busy I’ve been and how much homework I’ve had, the week went by pretty much flying. All days this week I’ve been loaded with homework, from just about every class. Yesterday and Tuesday I had to meet up with my history project group to work on a presentation. Both days, we’ve been there for at least two hours, but we’re not even close to done, so i’m going to have to go tomorrow at 1pm. It will be 74˚ outside tomorrow, so that pisses me off as well.

I honestly can’t wait until Spring Break is here. I’ve been bombed with homework the entire week and I probably will have more to do the next week. Only 7 more days(including weekends) until Spring Break. I. Can’t. Wait.

Yesterday during the MacSlice podcast we had an interesting conversation on Twitter followers in general. If it matters, who is “cheating the system”, and other stuff like that.

First, I’ll talk about if Twitter followers really matter.
They do, but at the same time, they don’t.

If your blog gets visits from just people on Twitter, and not a very big returning audience, then in a sense your twitter follower count does matter, because the more you have the more traffic you’d expect on your blog, right?

Sorta.

It all depends on HOW you get those followers. if the people actually follow you, and are actually interested in you, then sure, it will bump up numbers on your blog a bit. However, if you cheat the system(which I will explain later) and you get a ton of new followers, your numbers won’t go up as much, since the followers you get most likely don’t care(it may not seem like it may make sense, but don’t worry I’ll explain).

So, what is this whole “cheating the system” thing I keep talking about?

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On next week’s MacSlice Podcast, I will change up the layout of how the Podcast usually works. Instead of just winging the entire thing and specifying pretty much ALL MacSlice posts, I’m gonna change things up a bit. When the MacSlice podcast begins, we’ll start with the usual intro and everyone introducing who they are, and introducing guest hosts, etc etc, but instead of going right to the MacSlice posts, we’re going to start by going through all the big tech news that went on in the week, such as a new product announcement, services not working, etc etc. Then, we’ll move on to only the popular(as in, most traffic, comments, retweets) and go through them as well. After that, we’ll do a small segment called “Downloads o’ the week”. This segment will give the download of the week for Windows, Mac, and the iPhone. If one of our guests or guest host is an Android user, they can also give us what would be recommended as the download of the week for Android.

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I thought that UPS wanted a bailout and FedEx was complaining at the fact that they wanted a Bailout and that the new congress bill would take FedeEx out of competition. But I was wrong.

So, it turns out FedEx has made up stories on UPS wanting a bailout. And it now makes sense. UPS’s earnings are up 36%, and FedEx had to cut 5% of their workers. Hmm. Sounds like FedEx is jealous.

Don’t believe the UPS representative?

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Yeah. It happened. I caved in to the MacHeist NanoBundle earlier today. Bought the bundle for $19.95 which offers a lot of apps that i’ll never use. However, the fact that Tweetie 2 beta was included in the bundle(which will be released next month for Macheisters) probably was the key to get me to buy it. Not to mention, I now have 10 apps to review for MacSlice and my YouTube account, so I can pump out content on my YouTube and MacSlice like there’s no tomorrow. Looking forward to trying every app in the bundle, especially Tweetie 2. After a HUGE(and I mean, HUGE) disappointment with Tweetie 1, I’m wondering what Tweetie has up their sleeves for Tweetie 2.