Fanfiction Addiction

 I'm spending a lot of time using my Mum's Acer Aspire laptop these days. To do everything from normal browsing, to writing posts and have installed my word processing program Atlantis today so I can hopefully begin working on my non-blogger-type writing on it as well.

At the moment I actually feel more comfortable typing on the laptop when trying to type longer pieces. Even my new - and wonderful - Microsoft Wireless Keyboard and mouse I feel uncomfortable writing for more than a couple of minutes. I have found this doesn't happen so quickly, and in some instances very rarely, while using the laptop.

I started using the laptop more frequently because my Mum wanted it to be used more often than her previous computer, her small net-book, which she gave to my middle nephew when she upgraded to this laptop, and so that it doesn't sit around in the bag waiting on the short periods she uses it. I didn't use her net-book very frequently and only really used it when she had something she wanted me to fix for her or when we babysat or had to stay in at my brother's house for several hours to await delivery and such. 

She wanted this computer to be used and get her money's worth out of it rather than sit inside the bag waiting for the half a dozen - at the most - times she used it on either a weekly or bi-weekly period.

All I know is it's more comfortable for me to use and also as it mostly gets stored in my bedroom when my Mum isn't actively using it, well it can be a big life saver for me when I am suffering from a particularly extended period of insomnia or am too uncomfortable or in too much pain to sleep at night and the early hours. I have access to the web or can read or even use it jot down notes and write drafts for blog posts. A whole lot better than lying awake all night just hoping I'll drop unexpectedly. Now that makes for a very long and boring painful night.

I am also looking into recording videos to use on my blogs via You Tube with the built in webcam and using free/basic editing software to edit and compress it for possible posting. Or as a video diary to myself. I sat in front of it on Saturday when I was home alone and rambling into the webcam on and off for a couple of hours and even if I don't edit, compress and post it I found the time spent just talking, even if it was just to myself via webcam, as pretty therapeutic. 

Well, my little tablet has arrived. I've been playing around with it for about a week and a half now, 'm still trying to get a handle on it. Apart from a few small niggles I am enjoying it so far.

I've left the protective plastic cover that is put on the screen during packaging to save my screen from damage from either my fingers/nails or the stylus before I get an actual screen protector. My case with built in keyboard is supposed to come with a free screen protector so I should have that early in the next week. I should've gotten it at the beginning of this past week but it took Royal Mail a week from posting date to inform me that the supplier had failed to put sufficient postage on the package and another 24 hours after making up the card stating how much I'll need to pay to get my item through my letterbox to inform me of this. I paid on lunchtime Thursday online and was told my package would be delivered within 2 to 3 working days. So Tuesday at the latest, annoying as it's sitting in the local depo less than 10 minutes from my home and they should've been informed I had paid the under postage (plus the £1 admin fee) within a few minutes of them receiving payment for the fee.

Unfortunately the blogging based apps for use with my journals and blogs aren't compatible with my generic budget brand of tablet according to the google marketplace which is a bit disappoiinting but I guess I'll just have to update by web browser when using my tablet. In fact this is an error with Goggle Marketplace when registering my device, I have since downloaded a few apps that their android marketplace state as incompatible elsewhere with no problems with either install or using. Unfortunately none of these other marketplaces have the blogging apps available so I can't get them that way.

But apart from the mislabelling of my device and Google Marketplace stopping me from downloading and trying apps they decide should be incompatible I'm enjoying testing out the Android system although I've only used my tablet to browse online and test out a few apps.