Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Hi I'm Chris Marabate, But Id like to promote my Gamertag: Bate145185 to the world because I've been a Gamer all my life! But also a very socially linked type of web developer; who’s Obviously Really Good with Computers. You'll notice real quick just from this e-mail, I'm very comfortable with a keyboard and tend to always have a lot to say when I start writing out explanations, which is very convenient considering my Website is going to be highly populated with video/web tutorials on how to do and use various amazing things you never would of ever thought to try.




Website- http://www.bonkage.com


Gaming Resume - http://www.bonkage.com/resumegaming.htm


Resume Site - http://www.bonkage.com/resume.htm


RSS Feed - http://www.google.com/reader/shared/user/07636703266188544935/label/Facebook


Blogger - http://bonkage.blogspot.com/


Reviews - http://raptr.com/bate145185/reviews?src=hdr


Achievements - http://raptr.com/bate145185/achievements?src=hdr


Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/cmarabate


Myspace - http://www.myspace.com/marabate






That’s just a taste of the insane things i can do to make your life easier, a lot of them are on the site's right now Like my RSS Feed that I linked to my Facebook which I use as a way to share important News links mostly about gaming, computer, web, etc...


I have just now after working on this website sense i was a little kid planning on launching it to the world!  It's still a baby in my mind because of the immense plans i have for it! Eventually it will be a One Stop Membership website very social entwined hopefully in partnership with Facebook and Twitter (Crosses Fingers) you see what i mean i could keep going but I've probably already bored you too much already and i got a lot more Information to Get out there.


Maybe Ill Spread the News out a little bit and do sort of a Newsletter, That way everybody that wants nothing to do with me has a chance to block me but I ask that you please wait at least a few more e-mails I don’t think you will regret it,  I’m a Very laid back fun loving normal 25 year old that Hates the Sun so he spends all his time In-between his 3 monitors reading the internet trying to learn everything there is to learn and sharing it with everybody as I go! And of Corse I will always be posting more and more of my favorite things I have known for awhile that make my life insanely easier.  You wouldn’t believe the things you can do that you would never even think to do but somebody has and I intend to find it out!

Saturday, July 24, 2010

Bonkage All-in-One Widget!

Check out the new Widget I created using www.widgetbox.com which is one of my favorite sites for expanding and combining all my various web pages, blogs, social sites, etc. . .  If I remember right you can try it free but your going to want to pay the reasonable once a year price they offer to become a Pro Member to take full advantage of the site.








Please feel free to share this widget and any of my other's in any way you want, it will give you various different options of sites to share it on when you click Get Widget at the bottom of it.

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Everybody Needs a Raptr Account!

Everyone should check out my profile on Raptr at http://raptr.com/bate145185?src=hdr and sign up for one yourselves! If you download the client you can have it track when your playing League of Legends and other computer games, even Internet Browser Games. My Favorite part of course is the Xbox Live tracking!  Thats what i use to automatically post to Facebook when i get an Achievement and it posts the % Complete and what not. You can customize how much or little you want to post automatically.  



The Clients like a big Instant Messenger that you can link all your other IM accounts to it and it will grab all your contacts from that account for almost every IM Service and it tracks all the games they are tracking, and lets you know when and what they are playing. I need more friends on this, it's literally my favorite its the coolest thing on the internet right now!

As you can see I need more friends, Add me! unlike my Facebook I Accept Invites from everybody I don't have to know them so literally everybody add me!

Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Taking Advantage of the WOW Mouse


Make your life easier and get a WOW Mouse, If you didn't realize all the potential this thing has not only for gaming but just general windows tasks like Copy, Paste, Refresh, New Tab, Close Tab, undo, etc. . . with just the click of a mouse button! Here is a screenshot of how i have mine customized if you need help creating your own custom macros, I plan on having Adding a Video Tutorial or at least a webpage tutorial on how to do it eventually but for now just e-mail at bonkagereviews@gmail.com it will be good to know people are reading my posts and motivate me to create the video in order to help you and then ill have it to post.


Monday, July 12, 2010

Amazing Things you can do with Google Chrome Extentions





Share you bookmarks with all your computers and any other computer you ever use anywhere else. It automaticly syncs any bookmark you make to your 


account and once you log into it on any computer from the google chrome extentions panel.










A cool device that lets you put a tracker on any websites and it will keep track of any changes made to the site and let you know it will even highlight them for ya. Very Useful for fourm posting, its annoying as hell trying to go back to a forum and find your post having no idea how far it got bumped down the list. Now you can just track your post and it will update you when the page changes which means somebody responded to your post.




 


Deffinatly have to mention the thing im using to write this on in the first place lol Im using this badass Notepad that drops down from the extentions icon like everything else and on the left side bar it has Note 1 through Note 20 Tabs so you can toggle between them which you can customize its great. Anything you type in it seems to be there for good unless you delete it, you never have to worry about opening up a notepad doc and having a bunch of old notepads spread out on your desktop that you dont even remember why you made in the first place lol that always buged me if you cant tell lol well this 


thing take those days and trampled over it because not only do you never have to open a file, once you type it in the note pad you can just click out of the 
extention back onto a webpage and never have to worry about saving it! its just always there the next time you look at it no matter if you closed out the browser completely of even turned off your computer! Ya Its that Great. I had to come 
back to this paragaph after typing out my review of a bunch of other extentions to let you know that i am yet to find a limit to the ammount of text im allowed to add to each note tab, It just lets me keep scrolling down infinitly! 






This one went and made the Awsome The Hella Awsome! You guys know how much i love the google new tab page that gives you a preview of the 


8 most visited websites. Well This Extention Takes that and Builds a Customizeable Masterpieace. This thing Lets you have way more favorite website previews then you could possibly need or want because when there are that many of the screen 
they are all so tiny and lost in a black sea of preview images.And this one doesnt use your most visited sites it wants you to click the little icon inside 
the address bar that and click add this page and then it will show up on your page for your drag and drop pleasures. I personaly like to set it to 5 Rows 4 Columns, I organize by Column i got all my google links in the first column followed by the social network links, the 3rd column gets a little messy with my isohunt link, link to my personaly website, IMDb, Dave and Chuck the Freaks Website, and 89x Listen Live Steam. then the 4th column gets organized again with all my gaming links! Mine is the bottom widescreen one with the FFXIII 
background.It has a Google search at the top right next to the options button to make your customizeations and a Recently Closed section at the bottom. You can also change the background color or set any background image.



Another amazing one is Lastpass it lets you create a account and once you log into it on any browser it will ask you to save everything you log into and give you the option to auto log in everytime even on sites that normaly dont allow even password remember. It also has a fantastic little dealy called Form Fill! Which you can create profiles and Type in all your personal information that you normally have to type in when at all those damn sites that 


make you register or when you are buying anything etc. . . This is one of my top Favorite Extentions. It has alot of other things it can customize and do that i havnt even messed around with its a must.



A sexy little undo arrow that keeps track of the sites you've recently closed and you can click it at any time to bring one of them back up.



A cool little extention that once clicked will pop down a window with 4 well sized page previews of similar pages to the one you are currently viewing.



A great button that lets you create an account thats like a universal wish list. all you have to do is click the button on the page with the item you want and it will add it to your account. 

 


This one is so impressive that you wont even beleive you are looking it it all through a browser. This thing is a slick 3D wall that organizes all the video's on the internet into one amazing collection of any video you could ever want from any website ever in your intire life because it is just showing the internet! The Intire Frickin Internet! Then to top it off it also gives you the option to browse your computer files as well! and it organizes all those too! and when i say organize i mean it has channel and categories and infinite amount of way to organize the videos. You can ofcorse customize 


it to suit yourself by adding your favorite channels to the panel and multiple other things i havnt even played with yet.

 


This one is really cool for me as a web designer infact ive used it a few times for this page already. Its cool because it lets you capture a picture of the screen then it takes you to a insanely easy to use and very effective in browser image editer that lets you save your finished product just like any other image editor.

 


A handy one for you guys that hate closing a tab in fear that they will never find that site again! lol It keeps a number of tabs open number on the icon at all times and if you click it it brings down a big 3d view of all your tabs with little previews of what the website looks like.

 


I havnt used this one much yet but it seems really cool,Once you create your account like everything else It lets you Highlight text on any website and make it look like it was highlighted with a yellow highlighter as well as post sticky messages that you can place anywhere on the page with a number on them to keep track of how many messages are in it, and it can also bookmark websites for you not that you cant already do that lol.



Another things ive noticed alot of are nifty little extention that once they are installed you never have to worry about them again they do there job automaticly in the background! Most of them seem to make improvements to sites out that that others dont have the option to that arnt using these extentions. For Example There are alot of Google ones that Improve How your Google Searches look by adding icons to show the type of website, There another that once you get to the bottom of the first page of results it automaticly loads the next page underneath the first page seperated by a page number divider and my favorite Show a preview of what the website looks like. there is also a amazing one called Web of Trust that will put a little green circle to the right of any link that if you mouse over it a pop up shows you how its been rated by different levels of trust, insanely useful for avoding viruses and annoying scams. These are just a few but a couple more that stand out to me are . . one puts image previews on any posting that has images in it and brings them to the search page. There are alot of them that will give you options by your mouse when you highlight certain things, like Movie Titles, address's. different languages, etc. . they are quite handy.


Get Beautiful and Convient popdown menus to dislay differnt things like your Gmail Which is amazing because it make it so easy to delete a junk mail you get as soon as you get it because right above the message is a perfect little delete button and with just one click its gone, i dont know about you but ive always hated trying to check all those boxes while trying to resist the urge to click on to see what they are and end up leaving some unchecked so i can click them later lol but thats just me.


- You can also do this with all the big social networks, facebook, twitter, youtube, even Weather, Flixster, Ebay, Woot, New Egg, Google Maps, 


IMDb, Paypal, and my personal favorite utorrent. Gmail even has alerts and desktop pop up. Not to mention the awsome drop down inbox. You can get all these along with thousands of others at https://chrome.google.com/extensions





Internet Stuff


Web Browsers


Well ofcorse google's Google Chrome takes the cake as far as web broswers go, its amazing, i upgraded from Firefox because ofcorse i hate Internet Explorer, mainly on Vista computers which i dont buy anymore so i can avoid that combo atleast. Anyways after i upgraded it instantly took all my information from firefox, recently visted websites, bookmarks, folders, everything! then to top it off it has the coolest new tab homepage ever! ive always wanted to be able to customize my own new tab page but now i dont need to because this is exactly what i would of done! what it does is has a series of icons that look like print screens of the most recent websites that you visit all the time and puts them right there for you to click once you open a new tab. i dont know about you but this
is like the greatest gift ever to me, this alone made me put Google Chrome as my Default Browser. They Also Offer a Incognito Mode.. Pages you view in this window won't appear in your browser history or search history, and they won't leave other traces, like cookies, on your computer after you close the incognito window. Any files you download or bookmarks you create will be preserved, however.
incase your doing someting you dont want people to know about.

Shown above is another great feature, a completely customizeable bookmarks bar right underneather where you type in url's, notice thats the only thing up there besides tabs and a one click add to avorites button (The Star) and the standard refresh, back, and foreward. This bar comes with a bunch of
book marts automatically added but you can delete them all to make it look like mine, then add your own, you can even add whole folders! This is what I customized mine to look like in a matter of seconds. . .

And of course me being a big fan of the quick launch bar, once you download google chrome you have the option of adding gmail to the quick launch bar on your start menu which I find insanely handy. Hers how much I love quick launch:
And now for my Favorite Part! Instead of a blank screen when you open a new tab, google build a custom new tab page for you that shows screenshots of your most recent websites as well as some other google features. here is what it looks like


Besides that it’s a very basic web browser, which
is defiantly a good thing! I highly recommend it to everyone!