October 24, 2007

October 24, 2007 Writer Mac
Greetings and salutations to anyone interested in personal technology, that is the use of technology in everyday life.

I just installed Fedora Core Linux in Parallels on the MacBook Pro. The installation went perfectly and I am now using OpenOffice.org Writer to try it out and to prepare an item for my increasingly inappropriately named blog, johnsiphonejournal. The default for Writer appears to be Nimbus Roman No9 L with a font size of 12. It looks good on the screen, guess I will just leave it that way. I can always change it later if I wish to. The fonts on the Fedora list do not include Times New Roman which is my current favorite, anyway. A couple of fonts on the list I may wish to look at are Century Schoolbook L and URW Bookman L.

Yesterday, I continued my attempts to install Dark Age of Camelot on the MacBook under Parallels and on the Alienware. I was unsuccessful with both and am about ready to give up on that task. That will mean I only have two computers I can run DAoC on, the Dell XPS and Barbara's PC. Maybe I can reinstall XP on the Inspiron laptop. I called Connecting Point to get some assistance on reinstalling Windows XP on the Inspiron laptop. They said to press F12 repeatedly after turning the computer on with the XP disk in the DVD drive. Then a menu came up with the choice to boot from CD/DVD and press any key to start. But it still went back to the Fedora core. I tried the same thing with the Dell windows restore disk, and it did the same thing, went back to booting Fedora. Well I better go back to the MacBook HD and check my email and such stuff as that, maybe even work on Passion for Grasses a bit.

October 24, 2007 Word MacBook
This is a word document created by the recently installed copy of Office:mac for MacBook HD. When looking at class assignments today, I found I could open Word .doc files with Pages, print them out and read them nicely. I then opened the Excel gradebook file for the course and was able to add the grade for the lesson I just checked. However when I went to save the file it would not save it to the original file but saved it as a new Numbers file. So I decided I needed to get Word and Excel installed on this hard drive, MacBook HD. I will be replacing these with the Office:mac 2007 when it becomes available. I also added some more subscriptions to podcasts from iTunes. When I finished the subscriptions and installing Word and Excel there is 72.75 GB available on MacBook HD. I still would like to add Adobe Flash CS3 and possibly Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 and Illustrator CS3. I think I will have enough space to add them. I will however have to watch it as I start adding photos to iPhoto and additional music (and podcasts) to iTunes. I wonder if there is a way to save iPhotos on a different hard drive, for example the USB drive I plan on adding to the new Airport Exress when I get it. This document seems to look a little small on the screen as I work on it so I am changing the font, which is Times – 12, to Times New Roman – 12, and changing the View perspective from 100% to 150%. I can now read the material on the screen a lot easier.