Challenge 21

Well, I am very impressed. There were a whole lot of keyboard shortcuts that I didn't know and I just read through page 3 of David Pogue's list and viewer comments. That one went to the bookmarks. Some of the shortcuts don't seem a lot shorter than the coventional ways of doing things but others are "wow" moments of "I didn't know you could do that!" I am especially interested in shortcuts for this Mac. There is so much I don't know about this thing. But then again, LIVE AND LEARN. That is the name of the game. I really appreciate you taking the time to do this Emily. Otherwise we would have learned a lot less over the past month. Thanks. Carol 11/29/08 8:03PM

Challenge 20

I looked a just about every link on that challenge and found out that there is a whole lot I don't know anything about. I have been using Neooffice for this Mac laptop because it had no word processor loaded on it and that (according to Emily) is the MAC version of Open Office. The example they gave us to look at was a lot more impressive than anything I have seen in Neo office but that is probably because I really don't have a clue on how to use this stuff to it's best advantage. I did download Gimp on the computer at work and hope to learn how to use it. I will download it on my PC in the basement so I can play with it there also. I think it is wonderful that this exists and that these people who create this software are so generous as to just let everyone use it for free. There is hope for this world! I read most of what Courtney Love had to say about the record industry and I give the girl credit...She is one smart cookie. Who woulda thunk it. Anyway, it is Saturday, November 29th at 5:57 no matter what the bloglines tells you about what time this was posted. Carol

Challenge 19

I went with my email homepage (Yahoo) and just tweaked it a bit. I wanted netvibes but they wanted pop mail and I don't want to pay for that. If you recall a couple of posts ago about information overload...I don't need any more on my plate. I don't know how the individual who wrote that article ever survives what she goes through daily as far as the tweets and im(s) and emails and whatever. I can't go there. Yahoo and bloglines are enough for me.

Challenge 18, Web 2.0 awards

I looked at this. Nice. I signed up for My Heritage since I have most of the information to create my family tree from my relatives. I can see where it is designed to link up to other family trees. Guess we are all related if we go back and around far enough. I also liked fixya.com since I am still trying to fix my ipod that will not sync with my computer. I have several ideas to fix it that I didn't before I started looking at the site. Of course I have to translate one idea from vista to xp. Computers are a lovely puzzle for modern man aren't they?

Challenge 17, overdrive

I finally got a book downloaded on my mp3 player that I bought just for this purpose. I think I encountered every problem possible and can probably answer simple questions. I was on chapter 5 of the book when July and I got home from our walk. I think we are going to like this.

Challenge 16 Photoshop

I went to the trial and didn't really see anything there that would make me want to pay the price for Photoshop. It didn't seem to have much more than the free software that came with my Kodak camera. But then, I went to the internet meme timeline and watched a video called "You suck at Photoshop" Now that guy is not only funny but a much better advertisement for Photoshop than they are. I really enjoyed some of the free stuff at the end of that challenge. Thanks.

Challenge 15, browsers

I looked at all the material and didn't see any compelling reason to switch from Firefox to Chrome. I like Firefox. I used to like Internet Explorer until Emily showed me Firefox and now I only use IE when it is the only option. Chrome looks pretty though but not pretty enough for me to switch.