Wiki, tabs, and plugins

Again, I am behind in my blogging and keeping up wtih my 21 things. I will try and be better! I was a little nervous creating a wiki. I had never created one before and it seemed complicated. However, once I got going with Wikispaces it was very easy! I tried out PBworks and Wikia but I didn't like their setups and when setting up a wikia account I couldn't get the wiki to work. But I really like wikispaces, I think it is very intuitive and easy to use. My wiki is called Annie's recipes and includes recipes that I really like and recipes that I am just trying out. So far, I only have a few pages, and am going to have to REALLY force myself to keep this wiki updated. I think that is one of the problems with some of these technologies, they can create so much effort to keep up. However, it is interesting I have no trouble keeping up with facebook and am addicted to it. It is technology, like blogs and wikis where I actually have to do some work (writing) that I find harder to maintain.

I have used Firefox before and am a HUGE fan of the tabbed browsing. I think opening tabs is much easier to maintain than a ton of open windows. Maybe this is just my imagination, but for me it seems like tabs versus additional open windows have less of an effect on the speed of the computer.

I haven't used a lot of plug ins. Sometimes I find them a little annoying because they clutter up my browser too much. However, I have found the delicious add on to be very helpful. In the next couple of days I am planning to try out some more add ons and will describe my experience with them. I am intrigued by the read later add on which lets you make a list of web pages that you are interested in, but want to read later.

That's all for now! Hopefully tomorrow I will be able to make myself blog about week 4's items and the add ons.