Now
entering week, what?—38?,
of having to work with a 1893 HP computer running Windows XP and with
65 Giga storage. It's been *cough* fun. Who remembers Clear Mem? Or ipconfig /flushdns?
Or Using CTRL-F5 to unclog the browser? It's like being in high
school
again. I had been use to using about 9-10 applications to publish
this
rag every day. Now I don't even have room to install them, let
alone
memory and speed to run. But here are the few that I missed so
much
that I made room for them. They are life sustaining for me.
1.
Irfan View
The single best all-around (free) do-it all tool in the universe.
Here's an example. I used to have several thousand pictures
that had
accumulated over the past 19 years. Finding one in particular is
so
daunting a task that it became almost impossible. Irfan View
search is
so fast (and who knows how everything got indexed, because it like just
is) that I can find a picture of Hillary Clinton posing with Chinese
commies in mere seconds. You could use Irfan View to
edit, resize,
blah-blah blah. The search utility will also find text
likety-split.
Kompozer -
This program has been out of print for a few years, but I've yet to
find an alternative that can do what it does, as easily as it does
it.
For instance I can copy a web page, paste it on Kompozer, delete stuff
I
don't want , and then copy the source code for posting. I am
certain
that other programs exist that are one-up, but none are better than the
woman you know.
Paint
Shop Pro - Because I've used it since PSP 1. Even though I
own Corel PSP X5, I use X3 because it does what I want . And isn't
buggy.
That's it. I only need those three. Unless I want to get into the movie
business again, and then it's ShowBiz, because I know it.
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Aside- All this could have been resolved. JW the computer
geek set me up with a lovely Windows 7 installation
package. All I had to do was install it on my 3T disk. But,
oh no. I decided I didn't like that disk for, various reasons,
and prepared to send it back to Amazon while my 30 days was still
active. Took it out, and then thought, what the hell? I
have all that Linux stuff that Jimmy from Montana helped me with,
and I wanted it erased. So I put the drive back in and—while
most of you will never see this—if you fry your computer guts by being
careless about static electricity, say, the computer will start
flashing an orange light. That's what I got. So I hauled it
over to JW geek, and he will try to find out to what exactly was fried,
and is it fixable. That's what I get for trying to land between
two cotton wood trees on an open prairie. Again.
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