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May 31, 2005
A little too quiet, if you ask me
Heh. I was kind of expecting something to go wrong. I hoped to ease you into using a new kind of computer (not Windows) in a new way (at home, sitting on the couch, with the weather channel or some endless golf tournament on the TV in the background) with tips and resources and lots of help. Moms need help with computers. Everybody knows this. Moms even know this.
But nothing seems to have gone wrong. There was the incident involving the faulty electrical socket - the symptoms included a lot of dead networking bits - but it was the house's fault. And Mom had it sussed anyway. She sorted it, powered it up again and everything came back to life and worked the way it's supposed to work in a perfect world.
Anyway, Mom's had her Mac for a little over 2 months and nothing has gone wrong. I don't know whether to be more impressed with Mom or the Mac. I feel a bit like Jimmy Stewart when he hooks up the head psychiatrist with Harvey.
Posted by Brad at May 31, 2005 11:11 PM
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Well you see it's this way. You provided me with the missing manual and I've been using it. I do have a problem presently - as usual it' something everyone knows and that is obvious but I just don't see it. Now I find that i've forgotten how to get the spell checker to offer me spellings. It just sits there saying I'm wrong. I did it once but cant find it again. I cant find it in the missing manual either.
Peerhaps I'm just not using enough of the programes because lately I've been using the shared computer at work. I do bank though. I 've read some of the Quicken but dont know if it would be benificial to me.
Posted by: Mom at June 2, 2005 03:26 PM
I told Mom by email she could invoke a list of 'suggested spellings' by CONTROL-clicking (holding the CONTROL key while clicking) on the mis-spelled word.
Then I talked to her on the phone about this. As is often the case, it was much more complex than it sounded. (Just as often, problems are much simpler or more fundamental than they sound.)
Mom figured out what the problem was: the second letter - a vowel - was wrong in the word. I can't remember the word, but the spell checker was stymied and offered no suggestions.
Regarding Quicken, Mom figured it was overkill. She could already bank online with a browser, and she wondered if she'd really benefit from anything extra that Quicken offered.
Posted by: Brad at June 12, 2005 10:40 AM
