I've been gone for a while again because I've been spending a lot of time 'playing' with my new computer :)
Ninety-nine percent of the time I write this blog on my home computer rather than at work. But my poor old computer was becoming slower and not so user friendly. It is now 6 years old and the hardware is quite basic. That means the computer can't cope with multiple tasks and really got slow when website used Flash players etc. It became so frustrating to do the smallest of tasks.
So after more than 6 months of thinking about it, I bought a new computer. At first I really regretted that I didn't buy before the end of last year - my work computer runs on XP so I wanted to have two XP computers to make my life easier. But now it is impossible to buy a new computer with XP so I have to make do with Vista.
Believe me, starting out on Vista is not that smooth. It is similar enough to XP that you are fooled into thinking you can master it quickly. But tasks like 'Save As' took me 30 minutes because Vista hides the tool bars in new places :( Finally I went over to the Microsoft website and watched a few tutorials. I really wish I had of done that before I even began.
But it is not all bad, Vista (in Microsoft Office 2007) has some wonderful new functions that makes using Word a breeze! So many great quick shortcuts that I wish they had years ago. Now I feel my work computer is slow, so maybe I will get another Vista????? But I don't have enough money so I will have to check the price of a hard memory upgrade and keep the same machine.
So now that my computer using is becoming smoother, and I can access this blog software without wanting to scream, I hope I can update the blog more :)
