tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31082363.post3898260894069954539..comments2024-01-29T13:20:07.366+00:00Comments on Little Corner of the Earth: Regarding the last "Frustration" postAvushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16512540148378201058noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31082363.post-86857167728563862132014-04-01T16:36:50.780+01:002014-04-01T16:36:50.780+01:00Thanks for that, RR. I shall persevere!Thanks for that, RR. I shall persevere!Avushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16512540148378201058noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31082363.post-80099547790361988432014-03-31T06:58:31.050+01:002014-03-31T06:58:31.050+01:00I presently have Windows 7. Google repeatedly trie...I presently have Windows 7. Google repeatedly tried to force Chrome down my throat without explaining what the advantages were. However I quickly learned about the disadvantages: I was unable to work Blogger. I uninstalled Chrome then reinstalled it several times but it never worked.<br /><br />Then I started having problems accessing my blog via Google; certain features such as Stats were unavailable and it proved impossible to use the picture posting control. I trawled the Internet and found I wasn't alone. In fact Google eventually admitted the problem.<br /><br />Everyman and his dog had recommended Firefox, mainly for its added security. But I'd found it wouldn't let me draft posts in MSW and then transfer them to my blog. Out of desperation I tried accessing Google (and then my blog) through Firefox and lo it worked. There were some minor problems but these have gradually ironed themselves out. In the interim it became possible to access my blog directly through Google, although you had to shut dwn a terrible warning notice befoe doing so.<br /><br />There are advantage in retaining both methods: Google direct and Google via Firefox and this I have done. I no longer draft my posts in MSW but in Notepad (the very basic word processor that comes with Windows; the disadvantage is that Notepad only generates .txt files and I have to import simple fractions and French accents via Character Map). If all this sounds as if I'm wilfully complicating the simple act of blogging please feel free to contact me. But try the Firefox option first; it's easily removed if it turns out u/s<br /><br />My wife has just acquired a laptop with Windows 8 on it but happily she doesn't blog. Gradually we are beginning to understand 8 and even beat it at its own game. The right approach is to give yourself simple tasks (say, write a letter saved, as usual, in some specific location) and along the way notice that a number of 8's features are in fact ingenious and beneficial. Don't set out trying to understand the whole 8 ethos as a theory, as you might have done when you first encountered Windows; 8 isn't amenable to that sort of "engineering" approach. Also remind yourself that anyone can, without trying hard, fail to understand Windows 8 but it's hard to turn that into a boast.Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31082363.post-24294613397056481232014-03-27T18:35:51.987+00:002014-03-27T18:35:51.987+00:00Hooray! Hooray, hooray!
(Sorry I can't help ...Hooray! Hooray, hooray!<br /><br />(Sorry I can't help fix the problem, though.)The Crowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04846997590157958766noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31082363.post-66395894667007586992014-03-27T17:57:54.454+00:002014-03-27T17:57:54.454+00:00Welcome Avus. Wishing you well!! :)Welcome Avus. Wishing you well!! :)Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09028121782477111901noreply@blogger.com