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Another Friday night. Another Super7 Lottery Draw. Another bookmark. Well no, not quite. I did get a free ticket on the Tag number, i did on last week's draw too but i forgot about it and only just found that ticket under the stuff on the couch.
Mom's got a new puter and my cousin and i are going over this afternoon to get her set up and going. I think it's got XP loaded on, most of them do out of the box these days. I hope it's got burner software already on. I'm taking over some installers to add on a few things and my cousin has Word Perfect which is her preferred word processor though i will put some of Office 2000 on as well so she can read Word documents and see Powerpoint slideshows. I'm also going to put on Foxit which is a really nice PDF reader, far better than Adobe reader. Adobe is getting really clunky and takes ages to start up because it goes out looking for updates all the time. Foxit reader does everything that Adobe does and it's far faster, smaller, it's free and it doesn't need installing, just unzipping into a folder where you want it to run. I think the first time i wanted to use it, i went to the file and right clicked and chose Open With and set the default to Foxit that way. I highly recommend it!
I need probably 2 more photo albums. I bought a set of two that hold a total of 400 photos, so it says. One is entirely for the photos from the Corrie set visit. The other is completely inadequate and only holds the London and Manchester photos and that doesn't count the museum photos from the V and A and Natural History museum in London. Then there's Conwy Castle, Conwy, Llandudno, York and Blackpool. I'll get another set of the same kind next week so that the albums for this trip are all the same. I really have a lot of photo albums. You can well imagine. I still like that feeling of holding the album to look at the photos and i do go back at look through the ones from various trips. I'm taking fewer photos from every day life, though still do for special occaisions. I am taking more digital ones if i just want to go out somewhere and take a camera and then rarely print too many of those. Eventually i'll get a digital SLR. They're coming down in price and they've got image stabilizers which is a good thing. I find that my digital shows the camera shake a lot more than my SLR and i can hold a camera pretty steady when i try but i think the digital tends to have a slower shutter speed for non-flash. It's good in that it does take a better natural light photo in dark conditions but it's very hard to get a clear photo. Even using a tripod, i've had problems without the flash. I prefer having more to hold on to and a larger SLR shaped camera gives me more stablization i think.
I am planning to go to the Multicultural festival on the waterfront tomorrow. The weather is supposed to hold and it's always a nice few hours spent in the sun, trying exotic foods, listening to lots of different music and watching the performers.
Mom's got a new puter and my cousin and i are going over this afternoon to get her set up and going. I think it's got XP loaded on, most of them do out of the box these days. I hope it's got burner software already on. I'm taking over some installers to add on a few things and my cousin has Word Perfect which is her preferred word processor though i will put some of Office 2000 on as well so she can read Word documents and see Powerpoint slideshows. I'm also going to put on Foxit which is a really nice PDF reader, far better than Adobe reader. Adobe is getting really clunky and takes ages to start up because it goes out looking for updates all the time. Foxit reader does everything that Adobe does and it's far faster, smaller, it's free and it doesn't need installing, just unzipping into a folder where you want it to run. I think the first time i wanted to use it, i went to the file and right clicked and chose Open With and set the default to Foxit that way. I highly recommend it!
I need probably 2 more photo albums. I bought a set of two that hold a total of 400 photos, so it says. One is entirely for the photos from the Corrie set visit. The other is completely inadequate and only holds the London and Manchester photos and that doesn't count the museum photos from the V and A and Natural History museum in London. Then there's Conwy Castle, Conwy, Llandudno, York and Blackpool. I'll get another set of the same kind next week so that the albums for this trip are all the same. I really have a lot of photo albums. You can well imagine. I still like that feeling of holding the album to look at the photos and i do go back at look through the ones from various trips. I'm taking fewer photos from every day life, though still do for special occaisions. I am taking more digital ones if i just want to go out somewhere and take a camera and then rarely print too many of those. Eventually i'll get a digital SLR. They're coming down in price and they've got image stabilizers which is a good thing. I find that my digital shows the camera shake a lot more than my SLR and i can hold a camera pretty steady when i try but i think the digital tends to have a slower shutter speed for non-flash. It's good in that it does take a better natural light photo in dark conditions but it's very hard to get a clear photo. Even using a tripod, i've had problems without the flash. I prefer having more to hold on to and a larger SLR shaped camera gives me more stablization i think.
I am planning to go to the Multicultural festival on the waterfront tomorrow. The weather is supposed to hold and it's always a nice few hours spent in the sun, trying exotic foods, listening to lots of different music and watching the performers.
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