KEEPING ABREAST OF CHANGE. (03/09/13)

Yesterday I ordered a new IPS monitor. What I here you ask is IPS. I’m no geek but can tell you it is about £50.00p on a 23” monitor. My new monitor arrived today. Very posh it is, it’s also a good job I have a laptop as the instructions are on a CD. A CD for the less computer savvy folk is a round shiny disc that one hangs on string to frighten birds away from your fruit bushes.

I enjoy getting parcels. DPD are great. I log on and am told when my parcel arrives in Edinburgh from Huddersfield. It gets even more entertaining after it leaves Edinburgh as I can track it in real time as it wanders it’s way to Kinross.

    I had to have a word with Joe the driver. He was three minutes late but as he said fifty seven minutes early if you take the time slot into account. Not daft are these drivers.

Today was haircut day for the dogs.

    Before.

    And After…… Alf is on the left and Moll is on the right. They need four trims a year….High maintenance dogs; it is almost impossible to achieve optimum hair length for the winter months. Too short and they are cold, too long and they drag clods of snow into the van.

I’m now going to work out how to connect the new monitor to the lap top.

The staff at PC Specialists are great. when I ordered the new laptop in January, I did my best not to appear a Muppet and then got confused building a machine for me, you do it online. Great they are when, in desperation you phone, all they ask is what software you are running, what you do on the software, you tell them and they suggest cheaper alternatives. I’m thrilled to bits with the laptop. When I looked at monitors I wanted another 17” inch one as the only time I’ve used two screens it was a pain having the same resolution and at different sizes. The smallest I could get is twenty three inches. HO HUM! I do need more space now. I just hope it improves my editing. It cost just over a hundred pounds plus another six pounds for a gold plated HVI or summat cable. That was another six pounds the same as the delivery charge give or take a penny or two. They looked up the build specification on the laptop and knew I needed a different cable. Saved me ages plumbing it in , installing drivers only to find it doesn’t work.

IPS…….In Plane Switching…..I looked it up and am none the wiser. It still uses a polarised screen but with switching in planes. Samsung have a posher one yet  but they only put it on top end monitors which cost the best part of a grand, maybe more. I was hoping for a forty quid solution from Amazon or Ebay. Such is life.

CD….Stands for Compact Disk. In living memory they used to come in a hard plastic case and shrink wrapped. Nowadays they come with the cables all jumbled up in a posh bin bag.

Keeping abreast of change is almost a full time job.

Have fun.