Category: Blog

I have a new Sony Vaio Touchpad that I was really liking until a kid asked me what I thought of the web camera in it. Tried to pull it up, and knew it was working last weekend, but man, the light was coming on, but no picture.

Tried to get help with Sony Live Chat, but they almost know Windows 8. Can’t knock that too much as I am in the same boat. But they couldn’t get it to work either.

Ended up restoring the laptop and it is working now, and will be checking after I install each app to see what broke it.

Weirdness.

So OneNote 2013 also lets you blog — I have to check with OneNote 2010 since I don’t think I’ve tried.

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I am also trying drawing with the touch screen in this entry.

Though blogging with OneNote sends your post to Word, which is a bit odd. And it doesn’t complete preserve the drawing.

I download Office 2013 and am playing with it. Liking it for a blog client. Pretty easy to use, probably as good as writer.

Got myself a new computer.

Went up to the Frisco Microsoft Store to see the Surface. Was disappointed that they don’t run Legacy programs and they had some Sony Vaio Touch Screen computers that felt nice so I went home with one.

Using it now.

6 gig of memory

500 gig hard drive

Feels good in the lap

Liking it so far.

So I’m blogging with Office 13 and Windows 8

By the way, this was the computer that I was going to get this summer, but didn’t because Windows 8 was coming out.

Lanschool works!  Just annoyed my Advisory group with Windows 8, so I’ll be showing it off today and tomorrow.

So Office 2010 appears to work.  I downloaded it as I need a way to read the file attachments I get on my school email account.  Twinbox also appears to work, and is still better than any Twitter client though I do like their web interface.

I’m not missing the Start Button though I am pinning a ton of stuff to the task bar.

Writer and Outlook for example.

However, I prefer Windows 8 mail to Outlook but I like Twitter through Outlook the best.  Go figure.

Not much too it though.  Gives me easy access to my Iomega file server.  Installing Office 2010 right now.

Went out to the Best Buy site to look for the Microsoft Surface, and rethinking that purchase.  To be honest, there are several notebooks at a lower price point that would give more back for the buck.

I think $199 is the best price point for tablet – I have an Amazon Fire and an Nexus Table that went for that.

But having a bit of trouble uploading to Screencast and don’t have time to deal with it right now.

Probably going to use my anniversary money towards a Windows 8 Tablet, depends on their feel.  Will be going by Best Buy Friday evening.

Here's an image of my Start Screen from SnagIt. Love SnagIt and it works well.

I live Live Writer and it’s my favorite way to blog.  I actually was able to download Live Essentials and install them on my Windows 8 Machine.  The only thing I haven’t figure out how to do is to have more than one app showing on the screen at the time, but it may be due to the screen resolution.

I have my beta version of Wheel of Wealth, KeepPass and Filezilla installed and can get to my email accounts.