Eat, Gas, Now

If you're looking for some new computer or entertainment hardware, this Epson sale might be of some interest.  Up to 60% off, free ground shipping, yada yada.  I spent way too much time late last night dealing with software purchases.  To purchase or not to purchase.  That is the question. 

Found out that I still qualified for a "reasonably" priced upgrade of my increasingly ancient Macromedia Studio MX Suite to the latest Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium package.  Just short of a mere $600 but it does have all the big guns of Adobe web software along with InDesign.  That's a deal compared to the non-upgrade price (gulp!).

On the "this may be good enough" side, I installed increasingly ancient but still functional WordPerfect Office Suite 8 - Legal Edition on a lark last night.  This one had a copy of Dragon NaturallySpeaking with it (which doesn't seem to work on XP, at least not yet - rats) which I'd hoped would work out on this "superior" hardware platform.  It's a lot snappier than OpenOffice so I might find myself using it for future writing activities.  Maybe I'll re-install the software with the Amicus Attorney stuff which looks like it has some useful office management tools (in hindsight).

I found there's an active newsgroup for Corel software at news://cnews.corel.ca/ which was encouraging for those a bit put off by the lack of third party support in terms of books and such for some of their products. 

Originally I was looking at Corel Ventura 10 as a desktop publishing upgrade option (I have Adobe Pagemaker 5 which is fossilized).  Sounds like it's not bad for long technical books even if it's a bit long in the tooth itself and perhaps defacto orphanware.  A quick search on Ventura pulled up a lot of references (mostly computer books) where the books had been put together using Ventura.  Some of very recent mintage so it must still be used.

Regarding Valentine's Day.  I went for three Hersey Almond bars that were on sale at the Sunmart last night.  Happy VD to me. 

They are all gone now.  :)

Speaking of big days, Happy BD to monissaw!!

Eat, Gas, Now

If you're looking for some new computer or entertainment hardware, this Epson sale might be of some interest.  Up to 60% off, free ground shipping, yada yada.  I spent way too much time late last night dealing with software purchases.  To purchase or not to purchase.  That is the question. 

Found out that I still qualified for a "reasonably" priced upgrade of my increasingly ancient Macromedia Studio MX Suite to the latest Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium package.  Just short of a mere $600 but it does have all the big guns of Adobe web software along with InDesign.  That's a deal compared to the non-upgrade price (gulp!).

On the "this may be good enough" side, I installed increasingly ancient but still functional WordPerfect Office Suite 8 - Legal Edition on a lark last night.  This one had a copy of Dragon NaturallySpeaking with it (which doesn't seem to work on XP, at least not yet - rats) which I'd hoped would work out on this "superior" hardware platform.  It's a lot snappier than OpenOffice so I might find myself using it for future writing activities.  Maybe I'll re-install the software with the Amicus Attorney stuff which looks like it has some useful office management tools (in hindsight).

I found there's an active newsgroup for Corel software at news://cnews.corel.ca/ which was encouraging for those a bit put off by the lack of third party support in terms of books and such for some of their products. 

Originally I was looking at Corel Ventura 10 as a desktop publishing upgrade option (I have Adobe Pagemaker 5 which is fossilized).  Sounds like it's not bad for long technical books even if it's a bit long in the tooth itself and perhaps defacto orphanware.  A quick search on Ventura pulled up a lot of references (mostly computer books) where the books had been put together using Ventura.  Some of very recent mintage so it must still be used.

Regarding Valentine's Day.  I went for three Hersey Almond bars that were on sale at the Sunmart last night.  Happy VD to me. 

They are all gone now.  :)

Speaking of big days, Happy BD to monissaw!!