Still no networked printer, but I did find a remote desktop program that might help. We’ll see if it’s as easy as selecting a printer (the way XP did networking with the MacBook).
I made up a booklet for chess notation using Publisher. I really like how pieces of the Ribbon highlight with different colors to make suggestions, instead of having windows and yellow text boxes punch my eyes. Changing a table’s dimensions was not as easy in Publisher 2010 as it was in Word 2004 this morning. Is it Word? Is it Publisher? Is it general fatigue?
I’m liking the experience in 7 so far. I do appreciate Office 2010′s new design (it’s a big jump from 2003). I really dig the floating formatting palette that materializes next to your mouse cursor.
For people who want easy access to files: I know that there’s Windows Live with all of your accounts and everything.
But have you seen drop.io? I sent a picture MMS from my drop folder to my phone with just a right click. It shows up easily.
I just right-clicked on a song we’ll be playing on Sunday. We’ll see if it comes through. It’s 3MB.
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I use drop.io occasionally also. Have you tried Dropbox? http://getdropbox.com
I have seen it but have not tried it. Jeremy loves it (my understanding, at least). My trouble is that it requires the download. Our school computers are extremely locked down.
Dropbox has a pretty killer web interface, and the integration on the client on the computers you actually can install the application on is worth it. The killer feature for me is the shared folders, you basically link folders in your Dropbox with other users’ accounts, and you can share files by simply dropping them in. Couldn’t be easier.
Well, then, that settles it. I shall have to investigate.
I’m running Dropbox now on both the desktop and the laptop. I’m pretty impressed with the seamless synching.
You can mock me (silently) about how much I still have to learn.