Here's a pretty good resource downloadable from "Make Use Of":
http://bit.ly/1fEby3t
Thursday, February 27, 2014
Monday, February 17, 2014
I'm really likin' "Snapfish" these days
Snapfish is one of those on-line ("in the cloud") photo storing and printing services. Well, more than that. You upload your digital pictures and can organize them into "Albums" and then in a few clicks, create books, mugs, calendars, and more. I haven't tried any of those (too pricey for me!) but I do use this service for printing photographs really easily.
1. Take the picture.
2. Upload it to my Snapfish account.
3. Tell it I want prints.
4. Order the prints.
5. Have them delivered to the nearest Walgreens (which is right up the block) within about 2 hours.
6. Go get them and pay. Walgreens costs about $.20 per print.
I also did try ordering the prints by mail (only 9 cents each!) However, it took nearly three weeks to get the prints. And, with postage, it was close to the same cost as it would have been to walk three blocks to Walgreens and get them right the same day!
Give it a try? www.snapfish.com
1. Take the picture.
2. Upload it to my Snapfish account.
3. Tell it I want prints.
4. Order the prints.
5. Have them delivered to the nearest Walgreens (which is right up the block) within about 2 hours.
6. Go get them and pay. Walgreens costs about $.20 per print.
I also did try ordering the prints by mail (only 9 cents each!) However, it took nearly three weeks to get the prints. And, with postage, it was close to the same cost as it would have been to walk three blocks to Walgreens and get them right the same day!
Give it a try? www.snapfish.com
Monday, February 3, 2014
Free Alternatives to Expensive Word?
I recently got a new laptop. I decided I'd try using a free alternative to the very expensive Microsoft Office Suite that has been "industry standard" for some long time!
Right now, I am trialing:
Google Docs: This is a Google product, so you need to have a google or gmail account. It's part of a suite that includes spreadsheets, wordprocessor, presentation software): seems like plenty of space and features, and I can save a document as a Word document after creating it in Google Docs, so I can then send it to anyone.
OpenOffice: This is "opensource" software and has a license to be used for free. Very robust. And I can open /save Microsoft Word docs with no problem so far.
LibreOffice: This is sort of like OpenOffice. I think. Because I couldn't really tell, as I could not get it to download and install on my Win 8.0 laptop at all. Well, I could download the .msi file, but after three tries at installing, I gave up.
Here's a link from an article on Digital Trends with more information on these and a few others:
http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/best-microsoft-office-alternatives/
Right now, I am trialing:
Google Docs: This is a Google product, so you need to have a google or gmail account. It's part of a suite that includes spreadsheets, wordprocessor, presentation software): seems like plenty of space and features, and I can save a document as a Word document after creating it in Google Docs, so I can then send it to anyone.
OpenOffice: This is "opensource" software and has a license to be used for free. Very robust. And I can open /save Microsoft Word docs with no problem so far.
LibreOffice: This is sort of like OpenOffice. I think. Because I couldn't really tell, as I could not get it to download and install on my Win 8.0 laptop at all. Well, I could download the .msi file, but after three tries at installing, I gave up.
Here's a link from an article on Digital Trends with more information on these and a few others:
http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/best-microsoft-office-alternatives/
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