That service seems to be something called Jabber, not AIM. It's fine, AIM as it is is only marginally annoying and just ends up being the most convenient, given its universality.
Roughdraft, got it. The HTML editor, besides a word processor, is my most immediate need given my classes.
Hm, and most of my documents are .doc files. We'll see on that. As many and deep a flaw as Microsoft Word had, it had page breaks and spellcheck and word count and being able to modify any text inline, features I haven't really seen all together in other editors.
Eh on Firefox (using it right now). It's like a beta version of the browser I was using before, MyIE2. I'm not sure if it has anything at all to go with IE, but its functionality is excellent, as are the features. Tabbed browsing, man. When did we ever do without?
Ooh, better? Somehow, XP improved my monitor resolution, which is interesting. It also changed the quality of the colors displayed, which are now somewhat less warm. I'll look into changing that, but a good universal player that improved the look of media files is just a grade-A idea.
The Dell gent had me download a firewall and modify my Windows settings, plus whatever the university has going on already. He said any more and it would slow things down considerably, but all the same, thanks for the rec. Safety is always smart.
*hugs* Thanks so much for all your help. If I'd had my phone (left it in lab on Wednesday afternoon and didn't get it back until yesterday night) I would've said screw it to overseas charges and called you right away.
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Date: September 25th, 2004 06:29 am (UTC)Roughdraft, got it. The HTML editor, besides a word processor, is my most immediate need given my classes.
Hm, and most of my documents are .doc files. We'll see on that. As many and deep a flaw as Microsoft Word had, it had page breaks and spellcheck and word count and being able to modify any text inline, features I haven't really seen all together in other editors.
Eh on Firefox (using it right now). It's like a beta version of the browser I was using before, MyIE2. I'm not sure if it has anything at all to go with IE, but its functionality is excellent, as are the features. Tabbed browsing, man. When did we ever do without?
Ooh, better? Somehow, XP improved my monitor resolution, which is interesting. It also changed the quality of the colors displayed, which are now somewhat less warm. I'll look into changing that, but a good universal player that improved the look of media files is just a grade-A idea.
The Dell gent had me download a firewall and modify my Windows settings, plus whatever the university has going on already. He said any more and it would slow things down considerably, but all the same, thanks for the rec. Safety is always smart.
*hugs* Thanks so much for all your help. If I'd had my phone (left it in lab on Wednesday afternoon and didn't get it back until yesterday night) I would've said screw it to overseas charges and called you right away.