How many Tabs or programs to you have open on your computer?

[Shelbeethehmmrgirl]

I have 8 tabs on my phone browser all ECF. The TV going and 4 programs going on the computer, editing ebooks, music, my resume, and playing solitare. So how many tabs do you have open and programs running? Ooooh and I want to be the Sock monkey from the Kia Sorento commercial.

 

[typerflip]

IE-4tabs
Chrome 20 tabs
On my VM 3 tabs (3 VMs)

I'm a computer geek

 

[Daifne]

Firefox = 15 tabs (4 for the forum I moderate)... just removed four spams...
Thunderbird = 7 tabs
TV = On, watching Warehouse 13 on SyFy
CCleaner running on one of the computers I have in for repair and Malwarebytes on the other.

 

[Dredbull]

Oh new warehouse???

Hulu going on one tab, the rest well ehh.

At work 10 programs in general of tools, laptop 1-4 running and working on 1-10 phone repairs while having to converse with the mouth breathers. all while trying to get as much or as little as possible without people waiting 20 minutes in line.

 

[AJMoore]

Holy Cow, do you ever see the sunlight??? This is directed at ALL of you. I thought having 5-6 programs open, cell phone going a call waiting and people lined up in my office was multi-tasking but you guys have re-invented it.

 

[MastiffMike]

At any given moment I always have roughly this open:
Outlook
AutoCAD (with 5 drawings open)
Photoshop (with 7 or 8 open files)
Internet Explorer (13 windows/tabs open)
(Television is almost always on next to my monitors)

The above list doesn't include anti-virus, firewall, etc. that automatically turn on upon boot. I've also skipped listing my other 2 pc's (3 pc's using 2 monitors).

Anyone know how much is TOO much?

 

[Dredbull]

Hyper functioning.

 

[Aunt Cranky]

At home? It's usually World of Warcraft + at least 1 browser window + VLC (a low-profile media player)

At work? Probably at least 3 maybe 4 browser windows (one of them open to Salesforce, another to Last.FM), our bug-track software, a few Word docs, a few screen capture images, and Lotus Notes. alt-tab, alt-tab, alt-tab

 

[adz1966]

Can't even count. With all the info on this forum, I always have a bunch of stuff open!!

 

[SuZamme]

I hate that you got dibs on the Sock Monkey.

I only have dial-up here at the house or I might be a little more tab trouble with all the possibilities on the web and no client diversions.

At the studio where I have hi-speed I have Huffington Post, the weather, ECF, Photoshop, WebPlus, Outlook, Zuma's Revenge, and did I mention 2 to 2O people I'm "dressin up and shootin" and then showing them their portraits and printing and matting and framing. That's from 11 to 5 on Saturdays and fewer hours on other days.

Here at home I usually only have ECG, Outlook, Zuma's Revenge, Pocket tanks, Quickbooks, stereo, and the 100 other little piles of things all around my desk and room that need attention, sorting, filing, organizing. I am wondering where all this came from and how "it" came to be piled so high since the last time it was all neat and tidy which seems like not that long ago. Then there is taking breaks to play my flutes, feed the cats, do dishes, wash clothes, put away clothes, and talk to family/friends on the phone. Most of these tasks are done simultaneously with mixed results. Multi-tasking is the term I believe the amateurs use.

Now I have to go and add this thread to the 73 others I am following.

vape On!!!!!

 

[enigmad]

bah I thought I was bad. I usually have WoW, foobar, Chrome with about 10 tabs, TV on (but on mute), couple torrents, and sometimes add in phone stuff going on.

Anyone else like having the TV on in the background but has to be on mute?

 

[Shelbeethehmmrgirl]

Yes I am one day I will be the sock monkey. If I was good at photo shop I would make a sock monkey avatar and lord it over everyone

 

[MacArthurBug]

I have 7 tabs going. 6 ECF and one facebook.

 

[Andtyler2]

9 ECF related tabs, gmail, facebook, word, a pdf program, a book on kindle for PC. I think most of you guys are way more productive and functional then I am. I'm just s-ca-tter-ed in 10 directions. Depressing. [PS: Not enough font choices, ECF!]

 

[Shelbeethehmmrgirl]

Scattered, that's funny I have a ton of wool to spin, a crochet afgan to finish, a load of laundry I have half folded and that just the stuff I have started I can remember. I am sure there are other projects around the house that I need to finish but ECF and thought of my juice box which was mailed Thursday and has not arrived yet distracts me. I want it now!!!!!

 

[Aunt Cranky]

Heh... WoW players.. yarn geeks.. I'm in good company (I've always got a big pile of knitting just waiting for me whenever I have a tv show or movie to catch up on). I always have to have knitting when I'm watching tv.

 

[MacArthurBug]

Aunt Cranky: I'm with you there. I can't manage two needles so I'm just a ...... (i.e. crochet) But I must have yarn in my lap while I watch t.v. otherwise I'll end up wandering around the house like a lost little lady bug and missing over half my show.

 

[Thyestean]

Lets see right now less open than normal.

Laptop docked to desktop setup:

1st instance of FF work related: gmail and 2 other tabs
2nd instance of FF: Hotmail, USPS, Pogo, Wincustomize, and 2 others
3rd instance of FF: 6 ECF tabs
Excel, Impules, Trillian (connected to 3 messenger services) with 3 convo windows open

Desktop:

FF: Netflix watching tv shows
Opera: to get to other shows and movies that aren't on Netflix

Holy Cow, do you ever see the sunlight??? This is directed at ALL of you. I thought having 5-6 programs open, cell phone going a call waiting and people lined up in my office was multi-tasking but you guys have re-invented it.

LOl being in the sunlight isn't always any better. Probably going to be starting back to work at my old job soon (seasonal) but only doing scheduling and directing(managing) from home this year for them. When I used to do scheduling plus more on hands management I had 2 cell phones on me at all times along with my laptop and that can get to be a real annoyance when driving and trying to deal with 2 phone calls on separate phones along with a person on hold on each phone and needing to pull over to be able to look things up on the laptop lol Adding a bluetooth stereo to my truck last year helped a bit with that.

You should have seen me driving my Wrangler(stickshift of course) with no top and no doors all windy trying to pull all that off a few years back though

 

[AJMoore]

Thy, doesn't that impede you ability to carry and use an e cig while also drinking coffee?

 

[Thyestean]

Thy, doesn't that impede you ability to carry and use an e cig while also drinking coffee?

lol ... that was before e-cigs so it was easier to hold a cig in my mouth while talking. And I gave up coffee at 16 and haven't touched it since

Although the fact that the majority of the time I have a 2 liter bottle of pepsi at hand can make taking a drink an issue while trying to do the rest lol