NEW LAPTOP :D

Over the past few weeks I've been desperately trying to convince my parents to get me a new laptop. For awhile there, it looked like that was gonna be my Christmas present, but that never eventuated. Ironically, the laptop we did end up getting was the one I would've got for Christmas ... but at a $400 cheaper :D Not only that, we pretty much didn't have to pay a single dollar for it. If I felt lucky I'd try to convince my parents to get me a new technological device every coupla weeks, if not just to sell back onto eBay.

Spent the afternoon downloading all the crap I knew I would need for it. Here's my list of absolute must-have programs to help my transition between laptops.

• Google Chrome (I made the official jump today :D)
• iTunes
• iTunesKeys
• Quicktime Alternative Lite
• Real Player Alternative Lite
• Real Media Player
• Foxit
• Sumatra PDF
• Messenger Plus + associated ad patches
• Seesmic Desktop (I tried Seesmic Windows today, but didn't like that at all)
• AVG

Tomorrow I'll be getting PeerGuardian2, probably a torrent client ... An Office Suite would be nice. I might invest in an anti-Malware type folder just in case.

Had a devil of a time trying to import all my new music. I discovered iTunes had a "Automatically import songs" folder so that you could drag and drop files there and it would sort it for you. But this mustn't work as intended as my 30gb suddenly became over 50gb. Duplications abound. After like 4-5 tries, I decided to use the tried and true method of just drag-and-drop into iTunes itself. This worked out fine, except for inexplicable duplications. 1 hour of manual deletions later and we're fine.

While I was at it I finally removed AC/DC from my music. Why the fuck it was even there in the first place is anyone's guess.