My Computer Has Been Turned Over to Google
My Computer Has Been Turned Over to Google
The service that hosts my blog belongs to Google. My email is Google. My desktop search is Google. My desktop sidebar is Google. My browsers – both Netscape and Firefox have Google search boxes built in.
Then this past week I found out about Google Calendar. I really like it! It was very easy to start using and I like that you can share your calendar (not that I have anyone to share it with at the moment…)
I also have the Google photo manager Piscasa. I don’t use this program too much – the first time it opened up it found all of my Webshot pictures (screensaver and wallpaper). That resulted in way too many pictures for me to work with! I had already invested in Adobe Photoshop Elements, which I use to clean up the pictures I post in my eBay listings – which usually involves cropping, resizing, and stitching photos together (great for front and back covers). I have had on occasion to use some of the built in photo enhancing tools. But I haven’t had to time delve into the program any further. So why do we have these powerful programs when we only use so little of their features?
Why so much Google? They have a way of creating things that are easy to use but also quite powerful. And the price is right – everything is free! Fits into my budget!
There is a lot of talk of Google offering an office suite or taking over Open Office. I have Open Office but haven’t used it too much since I have a copy of Microsoft Office 2000 that still suits my purposes – a few letters now and then and a lot of copy and pasting – and the ability print to fax. I kept the old fax modem from my Gateway computer (three computers ago). I don’t use it to receive faxes but it is pretty interesting just how many times I have had to fax something out….
One thing I can say about my school work at the University of Phoenix, besides the great education, I got a good set of office tools – Microsoft Office, Microsoft Visio, and Microsoft Project. So since I’ve invested in these tools – may as well use them. In fact I type my blog up in word since I have the Blogger for Word plug in (to steal a term from browsers).
It will interesting to see what other products and services Google will offer: a Google browser, Google high speed internet access, Google computers, Google cell phones, Google Video (oh shoot – they already have that!), Google banking, Google office suppiies, Google cooking…….
Take care & enjoy,
Florence
The service that hosts my blog belongs to Google. My email is Google. My desktop search is Google. My desktop sidebar is Google. My browsers – both Netscape and Firefox have Google search boxes built in.
Then this past week I found out about Google Calendar. I really like it! It was very easy to start using and I like that you can share your calendar (not that I have anyone to share it with at the moment…)
I also have the Google photo manager Piscasa. I don’t use this program too much – the first time it opened up it found all of my Webshot pictures (screensaver and wallpaper). That resulted in way too many pictures for me to work with! I had already invested in Adobe Photoshop Elements, which I use to clean up the pictures I post in my eBay listings – which usually involves cropping, resizing, and stitching photos together (great for front and back covers). I have had on occasion to use some of the built in photo enhancing tools. But I haven’t had to time delve into the program any further. So why do we have these powerful programs when we only use so little of their features?
Why so much Google? They have a way of creating things that are easy to use but also quite powerful. And the price is right – everything is free! Fits into my budget!
There is a lot of talk of Google offering an office suite or taking over Open Office. I have Open Office but haven’t used it too much since I have a copy of Microsoft Office 2000 that still suits my purposes – a few letters now and then and a lot of copy and pasting – and the ability print to fax. I kept the old fax modem from my Gateway computer (three computers ago). I don’t use it to receive faxes but it is pretty interesting just how many times I have had to fax something out….
One thing I can say about my school work at the University of Phoenix, besides the great education, I got a good set of office tools – Microsoft Office, Microsoft Visio, and Microsoft Project. So since I’ve invested in these tools – may as well use them. In fact I type my blog up in word since I have the Blogger for Word plug in (to steal a term from browsers).
It will interesting to see what other products and services Google will offer: a Google browser, Google high speed internet access, Google computers, Google cell phones, Google Video (oh shoot – they already have that!), Google banking, Google office suppiies, Google cooking…….
Take care & enjoy,
Florence
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