what a sunrise, makes you want to be out there again

tasks today and tomorrow

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

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!

#23 Thank you folks

I learned lots about my own nature as a learner. It has taken willpower to front up to sites that won’t load, that are full of computer geek speak that I blanked out on. I hated having to do stuff over and over till I got it right and got a decent post published. But then I also hated having to finish posts when I really needed to spend hours more on each topic to really satisfy my desire to understand it all properly.

Learned that finding sites I enjoy visiting, can relate to and feel I can trust on the net is not easy even with the help of learning 2.0. It’s a whole new language and mindset out there and in general sites in which the influence of a ‘literate’ web author are obvious seem to work better for me.

Learned that given the slightest excuse I will spend far too long sitting at the computer.

Am totally excited about getting a wiki going in my local community, don’t care who starts it but just know we are computer literate enough now to produced a great event together. Am thinking about using a blog and Flickr for my next “what I did in my holidays “ composition.

Am not quite so confident that I will revisit all the sites I think should without the impetus of a deadline looming up. Ands that about sums Learning 2.0 up for me. I had known about most of this stuff before but this fabulous program walked me up to these amazing places and gave me the tools to get inside and play.

Thanks

#22 Audiobooks

Well the only question here is when will we get downloadable audiobooks in our own library!

Every now and then I visit audible books sites the commercial homes of downloadable audio books and decide once again that it is just too expensive for me. Besides the content is heavily skewed to America and I happen to want a lot of UK books.

I've tried noncommercial sites too, once a book is out of copywrite it is fair game. Free audio books I have found tend to be fairly dated. Even poetry sometimes comes with problems of having to listen through a whole lot of guff that accompanies every individual poem you download
I like the poetry archive though and Project Gutenberg has some new titles since last I looked but even so ...I hope our library consortia roll out Audible.com for us soon.

However I do have some old favourites in my itunes library and enjoy them...far easier than loading in audio books on CD.

#21 Podcast paradise

At long last something I feel fairly competent to write about. Podcasts. Listen to them. Love them. Highly recommend them to anyone with an ipod!!!!

While I too have trawled through podcast directories in my time my favourite podcasts emanate from those quality providers the ABC and the BBC . Its so easy. My itunes is set up with subscriptions to the radio shows I love and then I download a whole batch to my itunes library ...generally speaking I save them up for visits to the gym and car trips as a change to music and audio books. The ABC doesn't keep back programs for very long so it is important to download stuff fairly regularly. Imagine the Health Report or Philospher's Zone, Lingua Franca,; whatever to listen to when and where you want.

Podcast directories are great if you have the patience to sift through a lot of commercial content poorly disguised as regular podcasts. There are gems there but they sure are hard to find. I had a couple of podcasts in the original RSS feeds and will add more later. Using Podcast.net or whatever takes you to unmoderated lists of podcasts. I found it easier to search for 'ten best type lists' or recommendations by bloggers whom I trust when looking for podcasts other than radio ones.

#20 YouTube (Muffled)