What do you do on your computer?

[wfoster]

Well, now it is Easter break, I find it gets more and more boring being at my computer with nothing to do. I am going to put an end to my boredom and find something to do.

What do you do apart from post on here?

 

[No1451]

I'm a bit of a gamer, so many many games.

When I am not in a game I like reading(Stanza) or reading news articles.

 

[Malfoy]

poker poker and some poker.

 

[sammich]

Compute.

 

[kastenbrust]

Learn C++ and J Script, make a catchy app, sell it on the App Store, get rich.

 

[iDAG]

I surf the web, listen to music, watch videos, word process (Pages!), read email and just basic stuff. Next year in school (senior year in high school) I signed up to take a Java programming class so maybe I'll be doing some of that.

 

[followme]

I do a lot of things.

1) Read and post on forums. A variety of forums.

2) Watch videos from a variety of sites

3) Video editing with Final Cut Studio

4) Play games through crappy Windows Vista

5) Play emulated games in Mac and/or Windows

6) Prepare lesson plans for my classes

7) Shop online

8) Keep in touch with people through Skype and e-mail

9) Assist with my studies (Japanese/Spanish)

And more. If you're bored of sitting at your computer, the answer is probably not finding new computer tasks, but getting away from your computer and doing other things.

Consider joining a sports team, take up weight-lifting, start a new hobby like photography, hook up with friends you haven't seen in a while, or start reading some books.

 

[iJohnHenry]

Same thing as the first sentence, with some spreadsheets thrown in for good measure.

It is my entertainment/information/work resource.

 

[Lurchdubious]

I'm on a few pickup truck forums & do a little facebook, read the news, mess around on cooliris, and do a bunch of school stuff.

 

[hexonxonx]

Watch movies and TV shows.

 

[fireshot91]

I normally have 3-4 windows running at the same time.


iTunes listening to music
Firefox browsing various forums, have a tab open for Facebook
AIM windows talking to people
DVD Shrink for ripping (2) movies at the same time
And I'm normally downloading some sort of entertainment thing from within Firefox.
Then also, if I have some homework, I have Word open.

 

[spinnerlys]

Safari for raising my post count at MacRumours and doing research for my diploma
Lightroom and Photoshop if I feel the need to brush my photographs
iTunes for watching music fly
VLC for listening to movies
Avid for making groups of videos (the work G4 PowerMac is quite slow with that)

Yeah, mostly it is to kill time.

PS: I found an old game from 1996 (Death Rally) that I occasionally play

 

[SkyBell]

Firefox, web surfing
Various IM programs for talking
iTunes for music
An occasional game or two.

 

[dukebound85]

hulu
macrumors
espn
pay bills
im


thats pretty much most of it these days now that im not in school

 

[fireshot91]

Safari for raising my post count at MacRumours and doing research for my diploma
Lightroom and Photoshop if I feel the need to brush my photographs
iTunes for watching music fly
VLC for listening to movies
Avid for making groups of videos (the work G4 PowerMac is quite slow with that)

Yeah, mostly it is to kill time.

PS: I found an old game from 1996 (Death Rally) that I occasionally play

iTunes for watching music.
VLC for listening to movies.....nice.

 

[northy124]

iTunes for watching music fly
VLC for listening to movies

HAHAHAHA

I use my MacBook to watch TV/Movies, do a bit of work then watch a bit of pr0n, listen to music and IDK watch more TV/Movies.

 

[doubleohseven]

- MSNing friends
- Emailing
- Web Browsing
- Photo Editing
- Video Editing
- Downloading/Listening to Music
- Watching Movies
- Doing School Projects/Homework
- Gaming (Halo at the moment).

 

[0098386]

75% Work on my game
10% Play other games (Left4Dead, GTA:SA, Team Fortress 2)
10% Media playback
5% Media organisation (300gb iTunes library and 30gb iPhoto library don't automatically sort themselves out )

 

[richard.mac]

- open apps and say "BOOM!"
- press shift when Quartz does its thing
- Photo Booth
- Myspace
- iPod

 

[Tir-Limm]

I listen to music all the time, surf the web very often, edit photos sometimes and do something useful for studies very rarely

 

[iNash]

Usually update my blog and edit/upload videos.

Or in the evening it becomes a media centre for films/music around the house, then it is occasionally used to edit videos/pictures for work as the [sarcasm]AMAZING[/sarcasm] HP laptop they gave me does not allow me to do this...

 

[daneoni]

School work- I just finished writing 10,000 words worth of essays and learnt that Word 2008 really is a crappy software and i can't use Pages because its still a limited program

Internet stuff- Email, IM, Macrumors, RSS feeds etc

Music

Videos

I don't think i'll be bored over easter seeing as i have exams to revise for but in the summer i will be and to mitigate this i plan on learning Adobe's CS which i recently got a copy of...if i dont travel that is

 

[TomsMacBook]

I do the normal teenager things, methinks.

- Facebook
- Homework
- MSN
- Torrents
- Looking up random Wikipedia articles at 3AM
- iTunes

 

[nerdish]

Not let up for me over Easter, i still have tons of Newspaper adverts to make with my trusty old Quark 6!

 

[aaron11193]

Depends what I'm booted into..

Winblows:

iTunes - Music & Scrubs
Firefox - Forums (GP32X, iPTF & MacRumors), reading my many RSS feeds (usually about 20 tabs open at the same time lol), Myspace, Facebook, GMail, Hotmail, eBay.
iPhone Browser - watching the neighbours have sex..
Internet Exploder - Downloading Firefox.
Playing games - but windoze is a game!


Linux:

Pretty much anything I fricken' want.
Mostly playing with eye-candy


I'm installing OSX86 soon.. when I get a new (bigger) laptop HDD... I only have 60GB atm :S