ReloadEvery: A Firefox Add-on

If you’re a Mac user like me and your company uses an Exchange server, you are probably stuck using Outlook Web Access to check your Email. If this is the case, you probably hate having to manually refresh your browser to check for new messages. I just installed the ReloadEvery Add-on for Firefox and checking my Email is so much easier. Just open a page, right-click, and set up ReloadEvery to refresh your page however often you’d like. I have mine set on 5 minutes so I never miss another important message again.

Download/Install: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/115

Laptop Hunters: Homeless Frank

If you are a Mac fan like myself, you are probably tired of the newest Windows ad campaign. If you aren’t familiar with these ads, basically a camera follows a potential laptop buyer around to a few stores searching for a laptop under a certain price-point. They pick PCs because they are cheaper and don’t want to pay for the good-looks of the Apple brand. According to recent laptop hunter Giampaolo, Macs are “about aesthetics more than they are about computing power.” Ok, based on what? Most likely the fact that he’s cheap. Poor Lauren thinks she’s not “cool enough” for a Mac even though she looks like the most typical coffeehouse hipster you’d see re-organizing their Broken Social Scene albums in iTunes. I have gone on more of a rant than I planned, but I’ll say this: You get what you pay for. Spend a little more money and you get a powerful, gorgeous computer with an operating system that simply works. Even PC users hate Windows so I don’t even know why there is such a great debate. Anyway, I saw this video spoofing the PC Laptop Hunters commercials and thought it was hilarious.