Just checking Flock out, and trying its built-in blog posting ability. Seems like a pretty slick little browser, albeit with a lot of unnecessary baggage. Most of its functionality can be accomplished with bookmarks and rss feeds, but not as slickly as it does it.
Acer released this gigantic 18.4″ gaming laptop with a goofy keyboard setup. The keyboard looks offset to the right due to the 3×3 numpad, but I suppose it’s a good idea to make the qwerty section centered under the monitor, which they did. Still looks weird. Personally, my preference on laptops has pretty much reversed over the last year or two. I no longer like the idea of having a big gaming laptop. I’d much rather have a small sturdy notebook for browsing the web, word processing, etc. Hence my love for the Macbook Pro.
Blogging with Word 2007?!
I just discovered that Word 2007 is supposed to be able to publish to a number of blogging services and platforms, and if you can read this, then indeed it can!
Basically you just go to New, then type in blog and you should see a result “New Blog Post.” You then input your account information, given the choice of blogging services: Windows Live Spaces, Blogger, Sharepoint Blog, Community Server, Typepad, Wordpress, and Other. I quickly typed in the blog’s url, along with user name and password, and was presented with a fairly standard Word blank page, with an area for story title and, naturally, a story body area (wherein I now type). Word does suit itself well to formatting words (who’da thunk?), giving me quick access to emboldening, italicizing, underlining, and strikethroughing (strikingthrough?) text, as well as creating
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However, I’m skeptical that I will ever use Word as a blog publisher, or that very many people do. Nevertheless I was surprised to find the feature, and impressed that they thought about it. Perhaps I’m way behind the times and this has been in prior versions of Word as well.
Haha, incidentally, while writing this post within Word, Word decided to stop responding, so I had to end task. Luckily, Word recovered this article. Good ole Word.