Over the holiday, I came across this amazing deal from the Home Shopping Network:
It’s hard to notice much besides the woman who looks like she’s looking forward to taking a bite of her tasty Aspire One, but try to look at the “Retail Value” of the netbook: $847.60 – ON WHAT PLANET???
Good thing they’re offering it for the amazing value of just $499.90 (plus $27.95 for shipping and handling). What they’re really doing is preying on the uniformed because the almost 50% markup they are charging is ridiculous. For people who want one that bad, I’d be willing to part with mine for a mere $475 (with free shipping)! :)
When Google first released its Chrome browser, I used it quite a bit. Over time, I found myself using Firefox more and more largely because it plays nicely with small screens. The screen on my netbook and my UMPC just don’t have enough screen real estate to waste it on Chrome’s huge header. I had really hoped there would be a full screen option for Chrome by now.
Today I accidentally discovered that you can give yourself an “almost” full screen experience. Check this out:
Here’s how I did it:
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In Chrome, browse to a good home page (Google’s home page or iGoogle works well as noted below)
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Click on the page icon to the right of the address bar in Chrome’s toolbar
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Click on “Create application shortcuts…”
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Select “Desktop” and click “OK”
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Go to your desktop and launch the “Application shortcut” that has the name of your new home page
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Maximize the window and enjoy “near” full screen browsing in Chrome
Tips:
- There are no navigation buttons available to you in this view. You can use the “Backspace” key to go backwards in your browser history. Alternatively, you can use the Alt key in combination with the left and right arrow keys to go backwards and forwards (respectively) through the history.
- You don’t get an address bar this way, but if you use a Google page as suggested above, you can do a Google search for any URL and it will always be the first hit.
- If you want to truly maximize your screen real estate, change your taskbar to not stay on top of other windows.
Most error messages aren’t very helpful, but today when my Lenovo T61 chashed, I witnessed the mother of all useless error messages:
I went to Microsoft’s support page and read the documentation and they suggest you check a half dozen things, but nothing specific. The error message doesn’t even help them. 
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