I have been listening to radio, music and videos on the Web using tools like WinAmp, flash players and embedded Windows Media Player and QuickTime. For some reason, even though the volume on my PC is set to as low as possible without being 0, the sound coming through my headphones is always extremely loud. Is it really necessary for this sound to be so loud? Why do programmers feel the need to set the default volume so darn loud?

People are not naturally deaf, nor should we have to anticipate deafeningly loud sound coming from the speakers.

magitam: Google’s Non-launch of Chrome - do you think we should hold Google accountable for their broken promise? http://life.magitam.org.uk/2008/09/02/google-too-big-to-keep-its-promise/

Google has decided to create their own browser, dubbed Chrome. It is open source based on WebKit and powered by Google Gears. Another browser amongst many others. I don’t particularly care for most of Google’s products, thus I most likely won’t even test drive this product. I think, though, that Chrome will gain popularity, and it will be fast, very fast for couple of reasons.

First reason being - people, for some reason, are just crazy about Google and what it has to offer. They love to use their search engine, GMail and their various other apps. They look forward, with great anticipation, to anything new that the company hints or talks about.

The second reason why Google’s Chrome will gain great popularity is the same reason why Mozilla’s Firefox grew so fast in its user share - opposition to the standard, to the established - Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.

I believe that these two reasons will be the cause for Google’s Chrome to explode in its user share. Talk is all over the web about this. A quick search for Google’s Chrome on Twitter demonstrates this. All though, I do think it will be most popular amongst the tech crowd.

Chrome will see some competition from Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 8, so would Firefox. I installed IE 8 over the weekend and I can say that IE7 intrigued me, but IE8 enticed me and I might go back to using Internet Explorer. The new interface, functionality, privacy and build in tools are great. Microsoft is definitely moving in the right way with their work on Internet Explorer.

Google’s choice of introducing its Chrome browser in the form of a 38 or so paged comic is a wonderful approach of the proverbial RTFM. Personally I greatly enjoyed it, and I much rather read and look through illustrations than read pages of text explaining some technology, how it works, and what it is “supposed” to do.

I have been an avid follower of Google in the past, and I have looked for any products from them and I have attempted to use every one of their apps - as a Google fan, but I’m no longer. I did also switch to Firefox, at a time when I looked at Microsoft with an unkind eye. Plus, at the time Internet Explorer was rigid, unfriendly, and not all pages functioned well with it. So I did partake in both of the above reasons, even though they no longer apply to me.

I would like to hear what your thoughts on this are. Do you agree with the above reasons, or do you have reasons of your own? What are your thoughts about the comic? Should other companies apply the same methods when designing manuals for their products?

The dancing cop… I saw this video on AOL.

• @gar_cia hahhaha, that is hilarious in reply to gar_cia #
• @problogger Excellent read, thanks for the link. in reply to problogger #
• @Fitz hahhahahahahhaha damn @gar_cia, I’m surprised you are not tired of it, yet! in reply to Fitz #
• @gar_cia @Mav_rick @Fitz I’m glad that you guys finaly discovered ping.fm. You should also check out hellotxt.com. in reply to gar_cia #
• @Fitz at this time ping.fm. HelloTXT is nice, but there were some tech issues posting from it a while back, so I decided to use ping.fm only in reply to Fitz #
• @Fitz I ocasionaly post from hellotxt to test for problems, so far I still post from ping.fm only. in reply to Fitz #
• @egspoony LOL, nice, in reply to egspoony #
• @gar_cia why don’t you like last.fm, other than their horible site navigation? in reply to gar_cia #
• These are my questions about the Internet http://tinypaste.com/ba462 #
• @Fitz yes they do. if you set them up correctly and if you are that lazy that you do not want to write your name, or if you email A LOT in reply to Fitz #
• @gar_cia did you install adobe air first? #
• @gar_cia just checking in reply to gar_cia #
• @egspoony post a pic, please. in reply to egspoony #
• @JasonCalacanis well, that could go two ways - he is either messing around or he is really that excited. in reply to JasonCalacanis #
• 7Search.com v. McAfee, Inc http://tinyurl.com/5oblf2 Who’s going to win? Who would you like to see win? #
• From w/in Tweenkly. I’m not really sure what’s all the fuss about. It seems like it just sends alerts and uses the already existing search #
• @tweenky cool, are you planing on developing a service similar to @pingfm or @htxt with cross posting/cross tracking features? in reply to tweenky #
• @tweenky if other services are going to be supported are you going to implement unique log in system for tweenky? in reply to tweenky #
• @tweenky a user’s account on tweenky will contain the log in info for the other services, but what happens if they change their twitter name in reply to tweenky #
• @tweenky why not create a new service table similar to others but for twitter, and use the current account setup as the tweenky unique login in reply to tweenky #
• @tweenky then allow users to change their username, password, contact info and add extra info just for tweenky in reply to tweenky #
• @tweenky http://tinypaste.com/9ce3e in reply to tweenky #
• @gar_cia Forest Gump in reply to gar_cia #
• @Derek I don’t know how long you have set “ubiquity” to last for. Could you please email me a code to thetitan at titanfusion.net. Thank you in reply to Derek #
• @Scobleizer no, but I don’t see how it could be. The only way you could com with the other person is through a mutual follow. in reply to Scobleizer #
• WTH facebook, why’s everything being logged, lol If I delete a convo or parts of it, it is for a reason, I don’t what to “View deleted text” #
• Sweet Tiger Woods promo video http://tinyurl.com/67veee #
• About to fail: http://flickr.com/photos/jasoncalacanis/2490632463/ #
• @gar_cia WoooOoooW Nice, is that plastic or actually eatable? in reply to gar_cia #
• I wish EM24’s DNS servers went back to flushing and updating nightly. Instead, now I have to look at old DNS resolution locations for days. #
• @gar_cia Hah, is it going to let our smoke like on the show? in reply to gar_cia #
• @gar_cia uhhh, yeahhh, I don’t think that’s going to work for me. in reply to gar_cia #
• A sweet Rammstein music video - We all live in America http://tinyurl.com/3853k9 #
• I wonder why @socialthing does not display Pownce and Plurk and others in my pub feed. It sends updates to them! #
• Ahh, yes, now that I commented about it, @SocialThing is reflecting that very tweet (Micro post.) on the service I mentioned!!! ………. I wonder …… #
• @egspoony Where are you at? PAX! If so, that’s awesome. in reply to egspoony #
• just started playing Command & Conquer 3: Kane’s Wrath. #
• just started playing Star Wars Empire At War: Forces Of Corruption. #

Based on the people I follow on Twitter, I have noticed that people are tweeting more before lunch CTZ than in the afternoon, irregardless of geographical location. It seems like people stop tweeting for the second half of the work day, then they pick up again latter in the evening.

I guess it is true, people slack in the morning more than in the afternoon. Of course I have read other wise, but I think that the opposite is only true for the first quarter or half of the work day morning.

I believe the same holds true for pro bloggers. There seem to be more posts in the morning. My guess is they write some in the morning and more in the afternoon, which would explain fewer posts in the afternoon. They publish in the evening writings from the afternoon, then write some more and schedule the posts for the morning. If all that makes sense.

So, tell me twitterers - what do you think? Do you agree or disagree? Have you noticed any other trends or facts about twitterers’ personalities, behavior, or patterns?

• @Fitz yeah, well, it is supposed to be a 3 movie series, that only made it to movie 1. LoL in reply to Fitz #
• I’m testing Yoono ! #
• @gar_cia @fitz what’s your last.fm nick? mine is the_titan in reply to gar_cia #
• @Fitz thank you in reply to Fitz #
• @Mav_rick love your Twitter background. Dark on one side, light on the other. Just sweet!! in reply to Mav_rick #
• @gar_cia I did, too. in reply to gar_cia #
• I am trying out the Adobe AIR eBay application. So far - so good. I think I like the interface better than the web site. #
• Yes, I definitely like the AIR version of eBay better than the web interface. It is much simpler, and definitely less cluttered. #

As a co-founder of JutiaGroup.com I still handle technical and relevant aspects of the web site. Lately potential advertisers have been making contact, but they have been making contact the WRONG way. I have no idea what’s the logic behind it, but people are using the simple contact form to request information, which is already available on the clearly visible and indicated advertise page. I guess the thing that bugs me most is that to get to the contact form, which they use, a surfer has to find the contact page, which is hidden in a submenu. The information, which they request is available on the page which is to the right of the link on which they have to click to find the contact page.

Maybe they do go to the advertising page, but they just don’t navigate it. It’s called scrolling people, just scroll down the page. All the information people ask for is on that page, plus a very nice and extensive contact form, which was designed to save the time, which is now invested in going back and forth via email to determine something that one should have read and provided at first contact.

This is an awesome shadow performance seen on the Conan O’Brien show.

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