find my googleaccount
finish with tricks of the windows masters
follow up the last vista picture gallery site if found'
find a forum for picture gallery users
turn my first tags into a hierarchy that doesn't overlap as it does now
import rest of photos from denis pc
breathe occasionally
Thursday, January 31, 2008
managing the move to vista
Its my own learning experience now. No handy list of tutorials to follow. I am floundering along all over the place with lots of different directions to follow up.
Computer upgraded to vista and determined to master the differences between it and xp. There are lots. Some unknown as yet, some not important, and some jumped over quickly and a few understood but I loathe the feeling of not being on top of my tools ad techniques and not using them to best advantage.
The Welcome Centre is now disabled. Got rid of an unnecessary user account but made a decision to retain admin account and only be a standard user. Using the sidebar and a few addons i have put there even though i am not yet totally in charge of it. (addons/plugins? keep sliding off when i move things around or try to add new. Am i being foolish in letting these little bits of program have a spot in my computer to maybe work their evil plots? Never quite sure of how to find the best ones; reading through catalogues of add ons is a always a struggle with the language.
Focussing on the two main challenges.
FIRST I have read 3 manuals looking for vista info and have visibly built up the books with post its of info to be understood, and scary stuff to have a go at. Choosing the best back up system for me is the first and most important one of these.
SECOND Most of my photos are now across and in the Picture Gallery Shell. It is just fantastic and i can see how it will make finding my photos and showing them to people much easier. BUT my mind works sideways and i am struggling with a hierarchy of tags. I am wondering why the dates run upside down. Cross that photos seem to have been imported with import dates and not picture taken dates. Unable to find and choose all the properties i want to organise the photos around.
WORST of all is my ineffective searching of the web to find Photogallery Help. PhotoGallery Live seems to have taken over and before i get into more photo sharing, remember I have a little flickr account and would like to master that first, i want my photo gallery at home to be right.
Normally when i get into this sort of impasse it is either a language difficulty ...i use English and they use geekspeak ...so i don't know when i arrive at an answer OR i am trying to do something that the program is not designed to do and just don't know it and can't find any one to tell me to stop hitting the head at the brick wall.
'Tips of the Windows Vista Masters' manual is due back to the library soon and 11 post its to work through so off i go!
Computer upgraded to vista and determined to master the differences between it and xp. There are lots. Some unknown as yet, some not important, and some jumped over quickly and a few understood but I loathe the feeling of not being on top of my tools ad techniques and not using them to best advantage.
The Welcome Centre is now disabled. Got rid of an unnecessary user account but made a decision to retain admin account and only be a standard user. Using the sidebar and a few addons i have put there even though i am not yet totally in charge of it. (addons/plugins? keep sliding off when i move things around or try to add new. Am i being foolish in letting these little bits of program have a spot in my computer to maybe work their evil plots? Never quite sure of how to find the best ones; reading through catalogues of add ons is a always a struggle with the language.
Focussing on the two main challenges.
FIRST I have read 3 manuals looking for vista info and have visibly built up the books with post its of info to be understood, and scary stuff to have a go at. Choosing the best back up system for me is the first and most important one of these.
SECOND Most of my photos are now across and in the Picture Gallery Shell. It is just fantastic and i can see how it will make finding my photos and showing them to people much easier. BUT my mind works sideways and i am struggling with a hierarchy of tags. I am wondering why the dates run upside down. Cross that photos seem to have been imported with import dates and not picture taken dates. Unable to find and choose all the properties i want to organise the photos around.
WORST of all is my ineffective searching of the web to find Photogallery Help. PhotoGallery Live seems to have taken over and before i get into more photo sharing, remember I have a little flickr account and would like to master that first, i want my photo gallery at home to be right.
Normally when i get into this sort of impasse it is either a language difficulty ...i use English and they use geekspeak ...so i don't know when i arrive at an answer OR i am trying to do something that the program is not designed to do and just don't know it and can't find any one to tell me to stop hitting the head at the brick wall.
'Tips of the Windows Vista Masters' manual is due back to the library soon and 11 post its to work through so off i go!
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