Progress

The mouse, I've used it since the old days of my Amstrad 1640 that shaked, rattled and rolled it's way through the 80's..it was for an acounting software package that i was running for my business at the time but really it was the machine the kids played Paperboy and Robocop on.....
Now kicking and screaming I am getting to grips with a Wacom Intuos Pro pen pad... I thought it would be straight forward... still kicking and screaming... but getting there.. one of the major areas to get used to is defining the mapping area which really means getting the movement on the touchpad to relate to what's happenng on the screen, now this is where I would say to anyone thinking of getting one of these is to get the small one...seriously, unless you are into tracing images the movement you need across a 24" monitor would be well accomodated by getting the smaller size..I'm in the process of upgrading to a dual 24" monitor system so I have this medium pad so I can work across both of them, I think I'll still be kicking and screaming setting all that up.... but for everyone using a single monitor or like me at the moment, using a 17" laptop,,,small is beautiful... I also hadn't realised that the pad is all ready to accept hand gestures and swiping with any combination of digits to do..well most anything.... i see a learning curve bending away from me...
New computer system is at this moment being checked out of Lutterworth and on to a wagon destined for here..I love all this info you now get on deliveries. DPD texted me the other day with a list of options on when and at what time I'd like a parcel delivered and yesterday i got an email telling me that a parcel was on the way and would be delivered on Sunday...nah i thought...and then there was a knock on the door at 8.30 at night...
So all this has also meant that I've actually had to get down and dirty with Windows 8.1 and get under it's skin and not ignore it as I have been doing   so i hope to have the laptop, desktop and, if I flog a few book covers this quarter a rather nice Nokia 1020 as my pocket snapper and then I'll have an integrated Windows 8.1 system..I know..failure beckons but I can always fall back on google drive as my cross platform sinkhole.... talking of which I need to find and source an app that will aggregate all my cloud based stuff I'm losing track...
Back to swiping and griping..until the next time...