Chronicles of A Tecno Novice

For your enjoyment, I'd like to offer my latest foray into the world of technology, as you can imagine, it was not without incident.  But, it went better than most.  Here we go. 

This was all a result of wanting to try out Google Instant, because it's supposed to be "so cool".  (Whatever, on the coolness scale, I thought the old one was just fine.  I do, however, still have a copy of the phone book in a drawer and a set of encyclopedias.)



Photo by Zak Klein

 So, I tried to download Google Instant to my web brower, which apparently meant that I had to upgrade my browser.  That's never a good sign.  I clicked away and eventually was told that I didn't have the right sort of package to do what I needed to do.  Okay, I had no idea what any of that meant, but I did get that it's not going to work and it's probably going to be out of my realm of understanding to get it to work.  Plus, did I mention that I've been just fine with the regular Google and the browser that's been working perfectly for some time?

But, I made myself a promise not to give up as easily as I might have say in early August.  So, I set out to try something new.  Not to fix the problem,  mind you, I knew that was way out of my skill set!  Recently I was  introduced to the site ninite.com which allows the packaging of lots of different free software and easily downloads it at once.  I remembered that there were some different web browsers available there.  Now, I must admit, I'm not really sure why one needs multiple web browsers, but do recall others saying they are really "cool" and, I believe, "wicked fast".  Well, wicked fast is right up my alley and maybe, just maybe I could get Google Instant on one of those so I can enjoy the life changing impact that enhancement will have on me, or I can just say that I got something to work. 



Photo by Microlins

 So, I checked out ninite.com, sure enough, there they are.  I selected Google Chrome, Firefox and Opera and throw in Hulu for fun (because it really is pretty cool).  Sure enough, the download went very smoothly and everything worked!  I must say, they really are very nice and being able to package free software for one time downloading is perfect.  In addition, I tried Google Instant on Google Chrome and it was pretty slick.

The only downside is that now I can't stream my Netflix through my Wii anymore (another foray into the world of technology). It says my web browser is not current.  So, now I am going to have to face that problem.  Why is it that it worked before I tried this whole adventure and it's working on my computer, but not streaming to the Wii.  That's just not making sense.  I'm sure there will be content for another blog in that experiment.  I may have to call my neighbor in for tech support or practice the tried and true ignore it and hope it will work the next time I try it strategy!