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tarigwaemirLowell House, on the Feast of Sts. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
Oh, brilliant. I'm typing from my iBook right now (I finally got around to upgrading to Panther and establishing a network connection). The laptop is considerably slower than my PC desktop, but hey, it's nearly four years old now. I think. Or was it three? L.P. and I got our laptops as prizes, just as Apple was clearing out its old line of iBooks for a new line (which also has been replaced with yet another line in the intervening time), so they are hopelessly slow and outdated. Apparently, when L.P. accidentally deleted her OS while trying to upgrade it, she took it to the technician who was flabbergasted to find that she was still holding on to it. Heh.
Anyway, I just wanted to say that iChat is the cutest piece of chatting software I've ever seen (for those who have never used a Mac, the instant messages are displayed in speech bubbles with buddy icons next to them). I prefer the AIM interface, of course, but that doesn't stop me from finding iChat incredibly nifty. ^_^ I also downloaded a proper word processing software because the whole point of this upgrade and refurbishment was to be able to use my laptop to write up my biology lab report while I'm at home over break. (I also plan to bug my parents to get me a flash drive so I can tranfer without the whole Ethernet cable business. My iBook doesn't have a CD-R drive. Yes, it's that old.) To be honest, I love Mac OS X when not having to face the gnarly problem of incompatibility with the rest of the Windows universe. It's pretty. And it has Darwin. Enough said. (I like GNOME even more, but that's beside the point.) I think Safari is awesome, I can't find my music without iTunes, I think TextEdit is what Notepad could be if Microsoft wasn't so lazy, and I'm sure once I figure out what all these other neat little programs do, I'll adore them too. But! I hate AppleWorks! It is the most useless piece of software I've ever seen! It also takes forever to load because my laptop is just slow. So I spent the past two hours browsing for free Microsoft Word clones that can be installed on Macs. Everyone recommends OpenOffice but...it looks really ugly. And it doesn't integrate well with the Mac OS X graphical interface. Yes, I'm that shallow. (Also, apparently it requires X11, which I didn't install anyway, so I suppose it's all a moot point.) But after browsing through tons of reviews, I came across AbiWord, which is pretty and looks exactly the way I want a word processor to look. ^_^
I hope it's similar enough to Microsoft Word so that I don't have to go through major adjustments. I had to rememorize so many shortcuts while I was using AppleWorks all senior year for school work. Anyway, it looks pretty useable.
I should go to sleep soon. Have not begun writing up biology problem set; looks like I'll be skipping physics lecture tomorrow after all. >_< I'm such a delinquent.
Yours &c.
Oh, brilliant. I'm typing from my iBook right now (I finally got around to upgrading to Panther and establishing a network connection). The laptop is considerably slower than my PC desktop, but hey, it's nearly four years old now. I think. Or was it three? L.P. and I got our laptops as prizes, just as Apple was clearing out its old line of iBooks for a new line (which also has been replaced with yet another line in the intervening time), so they are hopelessly slow and outdated. Apparently, when L.P. accidentally deleted her OS while trying to upgrade it, she took it to the technician who was flabbergasted to find that she was still holding on to it. Heh.
Anyway, I just wanted to say that iChat is the cutest piece of chatting software I've ever seen (for those who have never used a Mac, the instant messages are displayed in speech bubbles with buddy icons next to them). I prefer the AIM interface, of course, but that doesn't stop me from finding iChat incredibly nifty. ^_^ I also downloaded a proper word processing software because the whole point of this upgrade and refurbishment was to be able to use my laptop to write up my biology lab report while I'm at home over break. (I also plan to bug my parents to get me a flash drive so I can tranfer without the whole Ethernet cable business. My iBook doesn't have a CD-R drive. Yes, it's that old.) To be honest, I love Mac OS X when not having to face the gnarly problem of incompatibility with the rest of the Windows universe. It's pretty. And it has Darwin. Enough said. (I like GNOME even more, but that's beside the point.) I think Safari is awesome, I can't find my music without iTunes, I think TextEdit is what Notepad could be if Microsoft wasn't so lazy, and I'm sure once I figure out what all these other neat little programs do, I'll adore them too. But! I hate AppleWorks! It is the most useless piece of software I've ever seen! It also takes forever to load because my laptop is just slow. So I spent the past two hours browsing for free Microsoft Word clones that can be installed on Macs. Everyone recommends OpenOffice but...it looks really ugly. And it doesn't integrate well with the Mac OS X graphical interface. Yes, I'm that shallow. (Also, apparently it requires X11, which I didn't install anyway, so I suppose it's all a moot point.) But after browsing through tons of reviews, I came across AbiWord, which is pretty and looks exactly the way I want a word processor to look. ^_^
I hope it's similar enough to Microsoft Word so that I don't have to go through major adjustments. I had to rememorize so many shortcuts while I was using AppleWorks all senior year for school work. Anyway, it looks pretty useable.
I should go to sleep soon. Have not begun writing up biology problem set; looks like I'll be skipping physics lecture tomorrow after all. >_< I'm such a delinquent.
Yours &c.
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Date: 2004-12-21 06:14 am (UTC)hm... i think i'm pretty much done now, though. it took only about an hour! teehee! i hope i didn't forget anything important. i, too, vow to do the bio report over break, but something tells me this isn't actually going to happen... heh.