Online Productivity Tools

Not really a big fan of the online productivity tools. I looked into Google Docs. I think the concept behind them is pretty cool because I don't know how many times i've tried to open documents from someone or something and I didn't have the source they created it in. It was really annoying, but then I discovered... or shall I saw was introduced to a thing called adobe. So for the most part I don't have difficulties anymore. I tried creating a spreadsheet the way I do in excel and some of the shortcuts I use are not there or are not the same on Google Docs. It got pretty frustrating, which is why I chose not to publish it to my blog.... oh well... one dud tool among all these really cool ones isn't so bad.... see ya!

RSS Feeds

I think I have fallen in love with the Common Craft videos that are being posted to walk us through setting up all these different accounts. They are so simple to follow and even though I felt dumb for needing some of the sites "dumbed down" for me... I am ultimately thankful because I always learn something new! This weeks youTube common craft video made learning how to subscribe to the different blogs so simple! It didn't take me long at all to learn how to set them up, view them, and edit and arrange them. Unfortunately though, as I was searching for blogs to add to my feed, I started to recognize how "primitive" my blog was. By primitive, I mean boring!!! I have nothing besides the meat and potatoes of typical blog. I want the five course meal!!! I read on someones blog about the site yourminis.com I visited it and waalaa... I added the little mini weather thingy! I even changed the color of background! Yea Me!!! But I suppose I should return to the topic at hand... the RSS feeds.
I really think the creation of the RSS feed was the end result Scott was hoping we'd find and ENJOY! I was really getting bogged doown with ALL the different site I felt like I had to check every single day to stay on top of my assignments and follow my classmates. I think this bloglines thing is really going to help streamline this task for me and even allow me to regularly access other sites I might have normally neglected! So THANK YOU SCOTT!