Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Week 7 TuteSpark

Wow... keeping up with this blog is crazy!
It is ridiculously hard to use. Kind of looking forward to this assignment being over. Just saying. I am not tech-y...

Alright. TASK.
Try some free software.

Well. Sounded simple, but it was not. Ha. Not with my dad.
Anyway, I did manage to find some free software.

I used Firefox opposed to the Internet Explorer. This was really interesting but I didn't realise there were different types of explorers. Like many people, I assumed that the 'e' (pictured below) meant the Internet. I didn't actually know that it was optional.Anyway, Firefox I can't say I liked or didn't like. It acted no different to how I was used to. It worked fine/ great. I am not planning on deleting my Internet Explorer anytime soon, but to prove a point, Firefox, a FREE software option, worked just as well as something people pay for.

I also used the OpenOffice program opposed to the Microsoft Word/ Publisher/ Powerpoint, etc.
This was noticably different. But like any program, it just takes a bit of getting used to. Like I still can't use Macs, they take time to figure out. OpenOffice was okay. I still definitely prefer Microsoft Word and Powerpoint. They have more options as to what I can do and like to do, but id I got stuck only using OpenOffice, it wouldn't be awful because it is a decent program.





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