Girl Geekette dotNet

For those of you who like social networking, Facebook (originally intended for College kids) is a much milder, stripped down Social Networking as compared to Yahoo 360 and MySpace. Although there are 3rd party Applications you can add… it has a much cleaner / less cluttered look you can add.

A few days ago, a 3rd party application called "Pets" was released for Facebook. To me, it reminds me of a cross between Tamagotchi and with a hint of World of Warcraft in it. The idea is to start out with a level 0 pet - a bunny (or a colorbit). You can pet it, feed it or poke it from your Facebook profile (as can others) to gain XP and health. (Poke seems to give higher XP than Pet from what I have seen).

You can check mine out at Erica’s Facebook Profile

Inside the game, you "fight monsters" to gain XP, health and Gold. You can then use the Gold to buy items of armor and clothing to increase you hit points, damage and health.  Pet me and Scavenging has been disabled from inside the game at this time. (Sorry! Scavenging (or petting) has been temporarily disabled due to high server load. We’re currently fixing this. Thanks for your patience!) The higher your XP, the tougher the monsters (Scorpian, Mantis, Spider, and an Ant) are to kill.

After you kill the monster, you loot the body for Gold and/or Equipment (weapons, armor, etc). You can sell the equipment for gold, carry it or equip it.

While playing it (mine has been alive for 10 hours - with a couple of hours of sleep being in the 10) I have noticed a few things.

I have been using Mozilla’s Firefox for the last few years. I have seen it get better and better too. With the new Release Candidate available for download now, and the Beta about to become available at this week, I thought I would give the newest version a try.

My first reaction.. it seemed a little faster loading up WebPages. My second reaction? It is a LOT faster to load up WebPages.!

Move over IE, you have just been dropped.

My IE has been crashing more and more lately. So, I tried to download the latest IE. Considering my IE freezes up about every time I launch it, that made it sort of hard to download. I finally got it, but when I tried to install IE, I got a message saying that a newer version of IE was already installed and setup would discontinue.

HUH??

I know I did the IE 7.0 side by side with IE 6, but that was a few reformats ago. I have not updated IE for at least a couple of months.

So why do I get an error saying a newer version is installed? Oh well. Forget IE. Back to FireFox. I use it more than IE anyway.

So, I see today that Firefox RC3 is up for grabs. So, I download it. And, I LOVE it!

Not only does it load WebPages up super fast (Like it should be on a 5.0 DSL connection) It even has some new features in it. This time around, there is an anti-phishing tool. This is supposed to warn you when you are on a site that could possibly be a scam. It can check a local list or it can check Google.