Ginger is right w/rt Word formatting. Although in the 20+ years I've been using Word, it's gotten a lot more complicated & tricky to use. I still miss Word 4.
Consuela, going to Spain issues aside, how do you like the Mytouch?
I like it well enough. I can't seem to make video streaming work on it, but it's fine for phone, texting, and websurfing. And there are a variety of apps I've grown really attached to, like the calendar & games, Yelp & OpenTable. I don't miss the actual keyboard as much as I thought I would, but I don't do much writing on it other than a couple texts a day.
I HATED my keyboard on my previous phone. HATED. And I have normal sized fingers and thumbs.
I'll check out the touch. I really want a phone that has the abilty to have a Dropbox app on it, so I can send docs to clients if I'm sans laptop.
Although in the 20+ years I've been using Word, it's gotten a lot more complicated & tricky to use. I still miss Word 4.
I miss Reveal Codes. Alt+F3 anyone?
It was so much easier when you could see the code. Sigh.
I miss Reveal Codes. Alt+F3 anyone?
Wasn't that WordStar?
And yeah, life was easier when you could see the code.
I like Open Office, but it's hell when you're trying to reformat fic, because the paragraph markers don't work the way they do in Word, and there's a whole other complicated process you have to use. Damned annoying.
The Word format, at least the .doc format .docx wasn't around when I worked on translating document formats, doesn't really lend itself to WordPerfect style reveal codes. It's hella complex and you can have formatting out of order since it can append edits anywhere in the document to the end of the file. That made it able to save your changes to a big document really fast, but increased the chance for bugs. If you did a 'save as' as opposed to a 'save', it would reorder the file so it was linear.
Does anyone have any suggestions for RSS readers for Android? I'm trying to keep up to date in some areas, but clean up my web browsers.
I see an unofficial Google reader out there (gReader), but I'm not sure what that means--it ganks their featureset or style? Or their actual config?
Anything wrong with the official Google Reader app? I just use that.
I have a tech tool question.
I would like to do a very simple piece of data organization, and I'm sure there's a tool to do it.
I am organizing a MathCounts team for my school. I have a giant pile of problems, and I want to simply make a list of all of the problems, with tags. Basically, if I see a geometry question that uses the area formula for regular polygons, 30-60-90 triangles, and the pythagorean theorem, I want to associate the problem with tags "30-60-90","regular polygon area","area","pythagorean", and "geometry", so that later, when I'm working on a geometry unit with the girls, I can click on "30-60-90" and pull up all of the problems that use it.
If the problems were URLs, I'd use del.icio.us or springpad or Evernote. If I actually wanted to type the problems up, I would use SpringPad or EverNote. But since the problems are actually on paper, all I really want is to tag a title: "2010-2011 Warmup 10 Problem 3" - any other information is overkill.
Any suggestions for a nice svelte way to do this - add tags to something as simple as a title?
