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Thursday, June 05, 2008

Setting up the new computer...

Scrape off all the adware, bloatware and "free trial" nonsense that comes with the new computer.

Remove unnecessary programs, including everything "Microsoft" that they'll let me.

Compress/Index drive settings. Adjust performance/appearance.

Download and/or install Firefox, Utorrent, Foxit, Open Office, CDisplay, Picasa, VLC, MediaMonkey, Skype, Wordweb, Ad Aware, AVG, ExtractNow, and Power Japanese.

Add the following Firefox Extensions - Linkification, Downthemall, Google Toolbar, Google Notebook, Tiny Menu, Tubestop.

Configure the Firefox search bar - Google, Amazon, Ebay, Scrapetorrent, TPB, Wikipedia, Isohunt, Wikipedia, YouTube, MMA Tracker, Dictionary.com, Urban Dictionary, IMDB.

Configure Online services - GMail, Google Reader, Google Calendar, Google Notebook, Blogger, Picasa, Google Docs, iGoogle.

Download photos from my PicasaWeb site.

Download and burn two weeks of torrent/video/etc files.

Still to do - tx music from MP3 players. Upload backed up videos, ebooks, music from disc. Edit/backup misc photos.

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