Dr. House Works on Alexe

Alexe, my macbook, has been upgraded to the Snow Leopard (Mac OS X version 10.6), thanks to Chu's persistence. Oh, it took a while, maybe 10 times we got the error "please clean the CD and try again." I was all set to give up, but not Chu, who somehow got the idea of tilting my macbook at a 90 degree angle while running the installation process. It was a crazy idea but to my complete surprise, it actually worked! Sounds like a Dr. House moment, which is funny because that's what we tease to him due to their similarity in sarcasm and maybe looks? 

uncanny resemblance (I am so gonna get killed)

Snow Leopard OS for my baby

Aside from that, I also used another CD of his to install some new toys to play around with - Microsoft Office for Mac and iWork.

new icons on my dock (sounds like new kids on the block)

Previously I used the free software Open Office to tinker with my Word, Excel and Power Point files, but it just isn't the same. Now my OC self can go back to plotting my life on Excel sheets on my laptop again. (insert evil laugh here)

Aside from the three most popular applications for Yuppies, there is a bonus: the Microsoft Entourage, an email client that is very much like Outlook. I fell in love with it and hooked it up to my Ymail account which was fun until this morning, when I opened my Ymail on the Internet and realized that all the emails uploaded to Entourage had been deleted from the Yahoo server. Egad!

Then I realized that while Gmail has an option to keep the emails in the inbox even if I use Apple Mail to read my messages, Yahoo doesn't. Argh. Oh well, at least I've gotten rid of a bunch of emails which I probably should have cleaned out a long time ago anyway.

Gmail has more options for pop mail

Yahoo loses hands down in this fight

As for iWork, it has applications that make those top three MS Office application files I mentioned earlier a lot easier to do. Keynote lets you create slide presentations from over 40 templates and you can integrate pictures and sounds into them by just dragging and dropping media from your iPhoto and iTunes libraries. And you can choose transitions similar to videomaking tools. Pages, meanwhile, is a streamlined word processor and an easy-to-use page layout tool. It allows you to be a writer one minute and a designer the next. When I saw the preset templates which includes layouts and pictures which you can easily interchange with your own, I decided that I was going to have to create a newsletter. It was too pretty to pass up! Numbers, meanwhile, is all about spreadsheets. Suddenly I want to crunch some data and make a gap analysis, a POT letter, anything!

I will now be spending way more time than I usually do on my computer. Thanks so much, Dr. House!