Google Calendar

I found it easy to post an event on the calendar. I only want to also say the type on the tutorials provided is pretty blurry. Some better resolution in producing them would make the concepts come in more clearly!

4 Trekking Poles for the Google Docs presentations.

Google Docs

I found the ease of use to be great. I uploaded a picture of Alan easily. Sometimes opening the presentation was buggy for me. I would open it and then see thumbnails on the left, but nothing loaded in on the right, and only ghosty writing. Then I would close and open again and it would load right in, showing all the slides.

I also noticed the slide still showed part of the "Click to add content" message under the pic of my son, AFTER I had saved and closed, then opened again. However, when I looked at the slideshow, it was gone. This discrepancy can make it hard to know if you've done what you need to do.

I MISS MISS MISS my Undo function that Microsoft is keen enough to know I need in all my work; that would be a great enhancement, if anyone from Google is watching! (Aren't they watching all of us all the time?)

I could see using Google Docs for large files that email carriers don't like to transport, for sharing picture files with groups, and for posting documents with a quick link for access.

I am not sure about how well the spreadsheet works with Excel. I seem to remember trying to load and go back and forth with some xcl files earlier in the year and having trouble of the "This does not compute" variety. But perhaps in time compatibilities will improve.

I love the option of turning the work into a pdf.

Catching Up

Okay, I'm catching up from the last few weeks. June is a killer month with birthdays, anniversaries + Fathers Day. Plus there was a wedding, planned, and a funeral, unplanned right in the middle of it all. Driving, struggling to pay for gas, and presents, presents, presents! On the good side cousin Lisa's wedding was at Lambeau Field, so I got the tour and saw the Hall of Fame for the first time. (She married into the Crivello family. Yes, that one.)

All that - and - my son is now 1, and has decided he can crawl, so the word NO has bloomed in our household like a spore.

I give the RSS feeds lesson 4 Trekking Poles because it was easy to do, and I can now have content brought to me. What could be simpler? Like my son, who puts his hands behind his head to be fed milk, I'm just kicking back and letting it all happen. It allows the information to flow like milk, yet you can pre-determine the content and change the flow at any time. Perfect!

Now on to the next lesson, as I have some more catching up to do!