Google Chrome trick

Here is a little tip for anybody using Google Chrome.

Pin the tabs that you use the most!

Try this! Just right click the tab and click "Pin tab".

A pinned tab can only be closed by right-clicking and selecting "Unpin tab."

I really like having Gmail and other websites (like simplenote for taking notes) ready to go.

Google thinks of everything.

life without facebook

Last week I said that I was taking a facebook break, and I am still going to limit the time that I am on here for a while.

Facebook is awesome, but too much of a good thing is blah blah you get it.

This is what happened.

I realized last week that I checked facebook multiple times in one day. Realizing that this was a horrible waste of time I decided to take a break. I used my phone to update my status to say that I was taking a break. I wasn't trying to prove a point, and I am not trying to prove a point now.

So with that out of the way here are five points lol. I have learned a few interesting things about facebook that maybe you haven't thought about . . . 

1) You're profile gets a lot more attention than you probably think it does. Just over the past week I have just been talking to friends or family and they will say "oh yeah I read that on your status last week." What really? People who aren't even on facebook find out about what you do and all of your life's happenings because of your facebook page! Several people have reported things to my mother that I have said online. My mom! This brings me to another interesting tidbit.

2) It is written in ink. I am friends on facebook with the following people: My boss's wife, my Mission President, people who I taught on my mission in Mexico, and parents of some of my friends. I'm just saying that I have to keep in mind that whatever I post will be read by these people. You probably have to filter what you say as well.

3) Facebook allows you to be in the middle of everyone else's business. Pretty much anytime I talk to my mom she will tell me about something that happened to a family member, or somebody from Richfield etc. Almost every single time she says something like that I say "yeah I knew that." She asks how and I say "facebook." Isn't this strange?? Isn't it weird that I know so much about the people around me even if I haven't talked to that person directly in years! I don't know if this is a good or bad thing.

4) There is nothing better than facebook for getting together with people going to the same event/party.  It is very nice to be able to check who else is going to something, and you can get together. The old way was texting/calling everybody you know so yeah that is not very effective. I realized this during the past couple days.

5) Facebook affects your brain. I am going out on a limb here. Have you ever witnessed something interesting or funny and instantly thought "How can I post this on facebook?" I bet you have. Is there anything wrong with this? Probably not, but isn't it interesting that you might consider posting something online before telling someone in person?

So yeah. That is what has been on my mind the past few days. As a white middle-class 20-something college student, it turns out that facebook has a pretty big impact on my life. I encourage any fellow facebook-addicts to take a some time off and see what you think. Please give me some feedback on anything I have written here, and feel free to tear apart any of my off-the-top-of-my-head false logic.

 - Dallas

TL;DR I stopped using facebook for a few days, and I noticed that facebook has a bigger impact on my life than I thought.

P.S. Thanks again for all the B-Day wishes!

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remembering passwords sucks . . try this!

How many passwords do you have? Just think about it.

I have a ton of usernames and passwords for all kinds of things. It isn't good to have the same password for everything, but it sucks having to remember a lot of different passwords.

I came across this article a while back that recommends downloading a really small really simple password managing program called KeePass.

I have used this program to store all of my passwords and usernames and it is great! Now I only have to remember one master password that opens the program, and all of my usernames and passwords are right there! This is so much better than writing down a list of passwords and risk losing the paper, or creating some .doc or excel file with passwords in it.

Ok so all you have to do is click here and install KeePass. You set your master password, and KeePass creates a file that ends in .kdb. (I personally use two .kdb files - one for work and one for everything else) So just think of this .kdb file as your little KeePass database of passwords that can only be looked at by entering your master password.


Using the program is stupid easy. Just add entries with usernames and passwords. It starts you off with folders for  email passwords, network passwords, internet site passwords, and more. You can also create more folders. After you add entries you can also copy any username or password to the clipboard for signing into things quickly. (It clears the clipboard after 10 seconds by default.) Just close the program after you look up the password you need. The next time you open the program it will require your master password.

To prevent losing your KeePass .kdb file, you should back it up on a flash drive or something else. The BEST option, I think, is to save your .kdb file in your dropbox. (dropbox is a tool that allows you to save up to 2gb of data for free on the web and it syncs the files in your dropbox across all of your computers.) To set up your dropbox in about 30 seconds, just CLICK HERE.

So if you hate remembering passwords as much as I do, try this out! Now you can rip up those post-it notes that you had so cleverly hidden under your keyboard :)

Organize your music files

Having a lot of music saved on my computer in a bunch of different locations drives me crazy!!!

I am working on putting all off my music into ONE organized directory. Why? OCD? maybe. Point is that hopefully when I'm done I can keep track of all of my music.

A hired a monkey to help me out.

His name is Media Monkey and he can help you too!

Just click below and follow the instructions of the article

How to Sync Your Music Library Across Multiple Computers

Good luck! 

How do you keep your music files organized?

Import all Facebook contacts into Gmail

This is cool. I just accidentally found a way to import all of my Facebook friends' email addresses into my Gmail contacts list.

Yahoo! mail has a new feature to directly import Facebook contact info into your Yahoo contacts list, so if you use Yahoo! mail you are in luck because it is stupid easy. If you are like me and use Gmail you can use a workaround to do the same thing.

The following instructions are for people who:

1. Have a Gmail account.
2. Have a Facebook account with friends who they would care to email.
3. Do not have a Yahoo! mail account.

Ok so first off you are going to create a Yahoo! mail account. Just go to mail.yahoo.com and click Create New Account and follow the instructions.

Next, click the link to import contacts from your Facebook account.

Then you will see a popup like this

Just click Okay and your contacts will be imported into your Yahoo! contacts list.

Now that all of your Facebook friends' email addresses are in your Yahoo! contacts list, all you have to do is export the contacts from Yahoo! and import them into Gmail. 

The best way to do this according to Gmail Help is the following:

Go to your Yahoo! contacts and select "Tools" and then "Export..."

It will give you options to export to different file types. This is the one you want.

This will download a single file to your computer with all of your Yahoo! contact info in it. Make sure you know where you saved this file because you are now going to import it into Gmail.

Now log into Gmail and click on Contacts. There is a link in the upper right corner that says "Import" click it.

It will look like this. Just click the "Choose File" button and choose the file that you just exported from Yahoo! mail. I also created a Gmail contacts group called "from facebook" just to keep the new contacts separate for now.

Q:  What if my facebook friends are already in my Gmail contacts list???

A: It doesn't matter. Gmail will automatically recognize that and merge the multiple entries into one.

Thats it! You can delete that Yahoo! mail account you created if you aren't going to use it.

Now you have all of your Facebook friends' email addresses in your Gmail contacts list.

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5 Reasons to Use Google Chrome

Google Chrome is an internet browser like Internet Explorer or Firefox except it rocks! If you are like these people and don't know what a browser is you can click here to watch a video. Here are 5 reasons to use Google Chrome . . .

5. The Omnibox.
You are probably used to using Internet Explorer or Firefox. There are two boxes at the top of the browser. One is for typing in a website's URL address and the other is for searching the internet using Google or another search engine. Google Chrome only has one bar at the top of the browser. You can type in a web address or type a word or phrase to search on Google. Just type what you want to find and press enter. Done. A lot of times the site will pop up as a suggestion before you hit enter.

4. Chrome is fast!
Google tested it. watch.

3. Extensions.
These are plugins that you install as buttons on your browser. For example if you use Gmail there is an extension that shows the Gmail logo along with the number of unread emails in your inbox.

My favorite extension is the delicious.com extension which lets you tag websites using delicious.com. If you use Blogger there is a blogger extension that lets you blog instantly about whatever site you are looking at.


2. Bookmark sync.
If you have Google Chrome installed on multiple computers and you have a Google account (Gmail) you can turn on a feature that keeps your bookmarks synced across all computers. Very handy.

1. It has a simple, well-designed interface.
The bar along the top doesn't take up as much room giving you more space to see your web pages.

The best part about all this is that you can download Chrome for FREE and it installs in about one minute so click below!

Download Google Chrome

Do you use Google Chrome?

tumblr sucks. more to come.

I deleted my blog on tumblr.com, and I am going to start posting on this blog. see you around.