So, I've been rather busy this past week, not that my house has anything to say about that...
Nope, it was all done on this contraption we call a computer. Monday when I got up, Tuesday when I got up, Wednesday after Tennis. Thursday was guild all day, so I only got to check my email. Friday when I got up, Saturday when I got up.
Now, you ask, what was I doing and did I get a lot done? I was working on the Guild blog and posting my examples on my blog as the last 4 post show. Did I get a lot done? Not really. Well, that's not completely true--yesterday, I completed the Guild Blog. I created a new site for the pictures using Shutterfly. I found out about that through another guild blog I found. That is really neat too. Click Here for that. And I learned GOBS of stuff through other blogs and trail and error about blogs. I made a button for others to use on there blog-i.e. I sorta learned how to code...lol
Now, this week I'm hoping that since Jason is home for 3 days of vacation we will do something in the bathroom, but that's looking rough since he pulled/strained a muscle in his upper back. dork.
Today, we are going to go see about my car and if I really need two new tires. Then run some errands: Office Depot, Super 1, Alberstons.
Mom's coming at 6 and we have tickets for the Heymann Center "Pride and Prejudice". I really hope its good.
I have tennis tomorrow morning, but not sure how that's going to go. I was off my game on Wednesday, so I hope I don't screw up tomorrow.
This Friday, Mom, Ching, Letia, and I are going to the Houston Quilt Show-well, we leave Friday and go to Laporte then Saturday, we'll go to the show and then come home that night. Yep, I'm driving-hence the tire & breaks check. Well, we still have to get a hotel room, but hoping to use Jason's points.
I'm also hoping to complete one if not two projects before the trip. The first is what I'm calling a travel companion. I hope to take pictures and do a real post. The other is a Shower Pocket by Never Done Project. I have to visit the quilt shop for the special fabric, but I wont need much. I'll probably still put this one in a Ziploc bag, so I can leave my soap in the pocket.
Well, Jason's out of the shower now, so I guess I'll pay some bills and figure out the problem I just found on my travel companion pattern...
Later gators,
Danielle
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
WOW
So, you're not going to believe this, but Google won this one. Totally didn't see that coming.
When I select the link, it brings you (separate page a must) to the Google Drive site. However, its very downplayed and for the most part (like Google) is simple and user friendly.
Literally: wooowww.
1. Easy view of the title
2. There is a search button (circled in red on right). Supposedly, you can search for anything in the doc.
3. Thumbnails on the left side for easy scrolling...
4. A PRINT button!!!
Now, the one thing Sky has that Drive doesn't. A 'Download' button directly on the page. I know, weird, right? Well I found it under the 'File' dropdown menu (below). I even clicked it and chose 'open' and it worked smoothly (as expected).
So....ding, ding, ding....we have a winner!
Thank the Lord, because I'm tired of this...
Now to go straighten out the guild's site and create a google drive for them..
Danielle
When I select the link, it brings you (separate page a must) to the Google Drive site. However, its very downplayed and for the most part (like Google) is simple and user friendly.
Literally: wooowww.
1. Easy view of the title
2. There is a search button (circled in red on right). Supposedly, you can search for anything in the doc.
3. Thumbnails on the left side for easy scrolling...
4. A PRINT button!!!
Now, the one thing Sky has that Drive doesn't. A 'Download' button directly on the page. I know, weird, right? Well I found it under the 'File' dropdown menu (below). I even clicked it and chose 'open' and it worked smoothly (as expected).
So....ding, ding, ding....we have a winner!
Thank the Lord, because I'm tired of this...
Now to go straighten out the guild's site and create a google drive for them..
Danielle
Yay!!!!
So I did it!!!! yay!!!!
So now what? Well, I'm not excited about the way skydrive displays the pdf inside their web page. I don't care that their stuff is at the top as a header, that's to be expected. I'm not totally happy with the properties displayed on the sidebar. No one needs to know who posted it and so forth.
Or when it was posted, or modified or the path or any of that junk on the right side of the page.
Now, I did just find the Download button at the top left of the screen. But, there is no clear print button, or search (not that you might need that).
So?
I'm now going to try Google's Drive. As I said earlier, I already had the account, so logging in was easy.
Here we go again...
Quilters' Guild Acadienne Newsletter August 2012
Mind you the end result of all this is to make my blogging on the guild's site enormously easier... hope*
So, I have blogger (google), Drive (google), Skydrive (microsoft), Email (Yahoo), Flicker (Yahoo), (soon to have smartphone-windows) as well as the guild's blog in blogger (google). And unless I want the guild's blog always linking back to mine (no), I will also have to set up one of the drives for downloading stuff...omg. Of course that is what all the posts today are about. Finding the best choice for the Guild.
Then I found a really nice guild blog from Canada that has given me some really good ideas for ours...
Anyway, back to the focus: post so I can check out the link...lol
Danielle
***************
Update: I will be moving the link of this blog to the new Guild Google Drive, since I will be deleting the newsletters off my drive.. don't need them both...
Danielle
So now what? Well, I'm not excited about the way skydrive displays the pdf inside their web page. I don't care that their stuff is at the top as a header, that's to be expected. I'm not totally happy with the properties displayed on the sidebar. No one needs to know who posted it and so forth.
Or when it was posted, or modified or the path or any of that junk on the right side of the page.
Now, I did just find the Download button at the top left of the screen. But, there is no clear print button, or search (not that you might need that).
So?
I'm now going to try Google's Drive. As I said earlier, I already had the account, so logging in was easy.
Here we go again...
Quilters' Guild Acadienne Newsletter August 2012
Mind you the end result of all this is to make my blogging on the guild's site enormously easier... hope*
So, I have blogger (google), Drive (google), Skydrive (microsoft), Email (Yahoo), Flicker (Yahoo), (soon to have smartphone-windows) as well as the guild's blog in blogger (google). And unless I want the guild's blog always linking back to mine (no), I will also have to set up one of the drives for downloading stuff...omg. Of course that is what all the posts today are about. Finding the best choice for the Guild.
Then I found a really nice guild blog from Canada that has given me some really good ideas for ours...
Anyway, back to the focus: post so I can check out the link...lol
Danielle
***************
Update: I will be moving the link of this blog to the new Guild Google Drive, since I will be deleting the newsletters off my drive.. don't need them both...
Danielle
So here goes nothing...
Hi all...lol
So I'm going to post two pdf documents that I uploaded to my skydrive. I am going to use both the "Public" and "View" link to test it out and see what is actually 'see-able'. In other words, the minute I'm done with this post, I will log out of both blogger and skydrive and search the internet for the pdf (which is just my guild's newsletter) that is Public. What I think the difference is, is View is for a link you place in a post and then anyone who views your post and clicks on the link will be directed to the pdf. Public is as if I just posted the pdf to the internet, I think...
So here goes nothing...
QGA Newsletter for October 2012 is thePublic one. View only.
QGA Newsletter for September 2012 is the View only.
And they're off!
hehe...
Danielle
:0)
Update: removing the public link and making view only. I didn't see any difference and I wasn't able to search for it anyway...lol oh well.
So I'm going to post two pdf documents that I uploaded to my skydrive. I am going to use both the "Public" and "View" link to test it out and see what is actually 'see-able'. In other words, the minute I'm done with this post, I will log out of both blogger and skydrive and search the internet for the pdf (which is just my guild's newsletter) that is Public. What I think the difference is, is View is for a link you place in a post and then anyone who views your post and clicks on the link will be directed to the pdf. Public is as if I just posted the pdf to the internet, I think...
So here goes nothing...
QGA Newsletter for October 2012 is the
QGA Newsletter for September 2012 is the View only.
And they're off!
hehe...
Danielle
:0)
Update: removing the public link and making view only. I didn't see any difference and I wasn't able to search for it anyway...lol oh well.
Trying to upload a pdf (testing)…
So I'm writing about linking a pdf on my page. There isn't one attached yet, since it's taken my several days to research this. I just don't understand why this is so difficult...
I'm doing this so that I can get my quilt guild's blog up and running efficiently. Our newsletters are in pdf, so I'm hoping to get them on the site...
I just created a Windows Skydrive for when I get my new phone, plus the search I did online said I should have a cloud site to pull from… so here goes…
*****
Well, I did that, and I'm not sure what to do now... I think I need an organizer for the stuff I have:
1. I created the skydrive for when I get my windows phone, I can take pics on the phone and put them on the skydrive to later retrieve to blog on (thats the hope)
2. I have a blog through Blogger (google).
I have a Docs account for when I was trying out an idea for my recipies. A flop for what I was looking for-not Docs itself. Well, I think Docs is now just simply apart of Drive. Fine by me, as long as i can use it.
3. I created a objective account for the Guild--its own gmail, blogger acct and password.
Now, I think I have to create a Docs/Drive for the guild as well... on to more searching..
oh and by the way, just in case anyone is reading this, it's Quilters' Guild Acadienne.
oh yeah, and I have a yahoo email address...LOL
***Ok, so I think i may have something here. I found the skydrive online site...duh!!!! Now, this is nice. I'll have to play with both drive and skydrive to see if i like one better than the other, but sky is nicer to look at thats for sure!
More to come I'm sure...
Danielle
I'm doing this so that I can get my quilt guild's blog up and running efficiently. Our newsletters are in pdf, so I'm hoping to get them on the site...
I just created a Windows Skydrive for when I get my new phone, plus the search I did online said I should have a cloud site to pull from… so here goes…
*****
Well, I did that, and I'm not sure what to do now... I think I need an organizer for the stuff I have:
1. I created the skydrive for when I get my windows phone, I can take pics on the phone and put them on the skydrive to later retrieve to blog on (thats the hope)
2. I have a blog through Blogger (google).
I have a Docs account for when I was trying out an idea for my recipies. A flop for what I was looking for-not Docs itself. Well, I think Docs is now just simply apart of Drive. Fine by me, as long as i can use it.
3. I created a objective account for the Guild--its own gmail, blogger acct and password.
Now, I think I have to create a Docs/Drive for the guild as well... on to more searching..
oh and by the way, just in case anyone is reading this, it's Quilters' Guild Acadienne.
oh yeah, and I have a yahoo email address...LOL
***Ok, so I think i may have something here. I found the skydrive online site...duh!!!! Now, this is nice. I'll have to play with both drive and skydrive to see if i like one better than the other, but sky is nicer to look at thats for sure!
More to come I'm sure...
Danielle
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