Persona

I added a persona to my Firefox.  A persona is a way to liven up your Firefox browser.  My persona is of the best team in college basketball right now.  The Kansas Jayhawks and Allen Field House.  I also like the Nike persona's as well as the football persona's.  Also, I added a persona add-on to my Firefox tools.  I would recommend doing that if you are like me and want to change your persona every day.  Go set your own Firefox persona right now!!-------->Get Your Persona!

Feedjit

Feedjit is a cool gadget that you can add to your blog to track the people that visit your blog.  It lets you see what browser that person was using, what type of a computer that person was using, where they were from, and how they got to your blog.

Favicon

Today I learned how to put a Favicon onto my blog.  Most of you have seen a Favicon before.  It is that picture that you see in the address bar.  It is usually the logo of a company.  Nike, Facebook, and Dick's Sporting Goods are just a few of the many websites that have a Favicon.  The best Favicon site that I visited was favicon.cc.  It lets you upload a picture that you already have on your computer, or it even lets you draw your image.  If you chose to draw your image though, remember that a Favicon is VERY small, so you you only get a 16x16 block amount of space.  The same rule applies for if you upload a picture; you have to shrink, or lessen the quality of your picture in order for the Favicon to fit in the address bar.  Go check out Favicon today!!!

iPad Blogger vs. Computer Blogger

I am making this post from my iPad. I am going to compare using the iPad app "Blogger," vs the computer version of Blogger.
I, personally like the computer version better. The computer version allows you to see all of the cool gadgets that I have put on my blog. The iPad just allows you to posts. The iPad app does, however, allow you to make a blog post from anywhere, which can be handy if you need to make a sudden post about something you saw and HAVE to post about it.

Blogger app Picture

This is a picture of my computer essentials class when the lights are off.

Symbaloo

Today I have used what can be one of the most helpful tools on the internet.  It is called Symbaloo.  Symbaloo is like an internet iPad.  You can add your favorite websites to your Symbaloo page which is called a webmix.  It is presented in the format kind of like an iPad presents apps.  If you click on the tile of the website, it will take you directly to that website in a new screen.  You can also have several different webmixes.  If you like to go to a lot of sites about one topic, you could have a separate webmix for that topic.

Another cool feature on Symbaloo is the box in the center.  You can have Google, a stock gadget, or a news gadget from any news source you want (CNN, MSNBC, etc.).  Symbaloo makes it very fast and easy to go to your favorite websites just by the click of the mouse.

Go check out Symbaloo and make your own webmix!!------>symbaloo.com

Blogger Gadgets

The new gadgets that I have found are Sports Mascots, Sports Quotes, Visitor Counter, and Poll.  I am going to leave those gadgets on there. Another gadget that I found, but I will leave off my blog is Virtual Cat.

Sports Mascot is cool because it shows all of the NCAA Division 1 mascots in random order each time the page refreshes.

Sports quotes is another cool gadget because every time the page refreshes, it gives you another inspiring sport quote.

Visitor counter is interesting because you can see how many people have seen my blog.

The Poll gadget is a way of keeping my viewers interested.  I will ask them all sorts of questions ranging from recent sports happenings, to recent political questions.

The Virtual Cat gadget was a fun little gadget.  I decided to leave it off my blog though.  If your mouse was near the little cat, his eyes would follow it around; if you rubbed your mouse over the cat's head, you could make it purr, and then meow.

Blog Stats

As of today, (11:13 a.m. on Monday, January 14, 2013) this blog has a total of 62 views, 7 of them coming today.  The most used site that people use to come to my blog is: shannon3b2013.blogspot.com.

My First Blog Post

Hi my name is Ryan.  I attend Abilene High School.