Saturday, September 24, 2011

My Favorite Program

I am kind of a dork. I like real time strategy games! My favorite computer game is probably Age of Empires 3. Although, I have not able to play much at all since school started. I really enjoy the part of the game that lets your build your town and upgrade your civilization as you prepare for war. There is just something cool about controlling an entire army of early colonial troops bent on conquering the New World. I think the graphics are great for the type of game it is and for the time it was released. I also believe the game caters to those who like to play online or with more people than just the computer.
As much as I love the game there could be a few things to improve. I don't like that there is a civilization population limit of 200, or it least should be a bit higher. I know that it would really slow down the computer if there were a thousand little soldiers fighting on a battle field but 2oo seems low to me. I also think that there should be more places to start your civilization in. The game limits you to just North and South American places and doesn't include that many territories.
The computer that I use for my game is a HP G62 laptop that uses Windows 7, which I love! My computer has 300GBs of storage and has 4GBs of RAM. I could use more RAM but my game works fine with this amount. It is not an impressive laptop but it does everything that I require of it.

Thursday, September 8, 2011

Web Browser

I love Mozilla Firefox! Some people think I am crazy for saying that-like my wife, but it works for me. I use it on my laptop and desktop computers at home for surfing the web and I use it for my school assignments as well. It is not like I have never used Internet Explorer. At work I use IE on my desktop. And if you are in Info. 1120 this year it is required in order to use myitlab which is great because being comfortable with more than one browser is a must these days.
I find that I like the familiarity with Firefox-you know like that comfortable old recliner that you can't ever replace. I also enjoy the plugins that I have with it: Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Flash, etc. I have a system for surfing the web with Firefox that works for me. I think the menus in Firefox are easy to follow and in a handy location, and I frequently make use of the bookmark toolbar.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. What works for some may not work for others. But when it comes to web browsing I prefer Mozilla Firefox.