Computers & Tablets: Part 2
So I've mostly decided to stay away from tablets... mostly. (Too new.) My brother, however, has decided on the Nook Color for his internet browsing needs, which certainly looks good. Better yet, it reads unicode! This means I can use it too. Also turns out that the Nook can share accounts as well, which is yay. (They're also supposed to support 'lending'...should the publisher allow.)
Dug my old Vaio out of my storage bag and trying to run it. So far it runs (just have to reset the clock) and so far it seems to work. It's kind of nice to have a screen that doesn't blind me at night... which is why I'm keeping this cute, fragile, beat-up, yet-still-surviving-after-all-these-years thing. (Also nice to have a computer with a good screen resolution.)
I could run everything on this computer. I still can, sort of. But I no longer have any computer I can truly call home... probably because I no longer have the correct programs that work with the new OS. OpenOffice to the rescue, maybe. And Hubman, because one USB port is being eaten by the wireless (since that broke first).
And quite frankly, this is the only computer I feel safe enough with crashing. Well, killing. As in permanently. But I could probably use a couple of the other babies in the nursery to do the same thing... although none are as comfortable.
Perhaps I'm partially thrown out of the loop of new programs and new sites is because, quite frankly, I don't trust the internet with the word security. Anything that asks me to sign up has a good chance of me not doing a thing about it... (not to mention that I have to write down my password in my password book because I won't remember it six months later when I try it again.)
Dug my old Vaio out of my storage bag and trying to run it. So far it runs (just have to reset the clock) and so far it seems to work. It's kind of nice to have a screen that doesn't blind me at night... which is why I'm keeping this cute, fragile, beat-up, yet-still-surviving-after-all-these-years thing. (Also nice to have a computer with a good screen resolution.)
I could run everything on this computer. I still can, sort of. But I no longer have any computer I can truly call home... probably because I no longer have the correct programs that work with the new OS. OpenOffice to the rescue, maybe. And Hubman, because one USB port is being eaten by the wireless (since that broke first).
And quite frankly, this is the only computer I feel safe enough with crashing. Well, killing. As in permanently. But I could probably use a couple of the other babies in the nursery to do the same thing... although none are as comfortable.
Perhaps I'm partially thrown out of the loop of new programs and new sites is because, quite frankly, I don't trust the internet with the word security. Anything that asks me to sign up has a good chance of me not doing a thing about it... (not to mention that I have to write down my password in my password book because I won't remember it six months later when I try it again.)