Either that or maybe it's just that I hold onto my technology too long. So, this week I updated my Mac's OS to Catalina. I knew better; I don't know why I did it. Sure enough, it disabled my Microsoft Office along with a few other things and also removed my Dashboard. I know those of you who don't own Mac probably have no idea what I'm talking about, but I used that Dashboard on a daily basis. I had my local weather radar there as well as forecasts, a calculator, a conversions calculator, an Area Code Finder, a dictionary, and the phonetic alphabet among a few other things I didn't really use, all in one place at the push of a button. Now, to get something to sorta emulate it I have to pay $5 in the App store, and it doesn't even have all the stuff I had installed. Bummer.
I can deal with the loss of MS Office. I'll just migrate my stuff over to Mac's Pages which opens Office documents and can also export to Office for sharing. I don't need fancy. The other things I used on a regular basis I was able to find 64-bit updates so I can still use them, but there are some things I only used on occasion that do not have the 64-bit capability, so I'll have to find an alternative if I can. Hopefully, the alternative will be even better.
On top of that, I had to get a new Tablet since my old one was way past it's usable life. A couple of years ago my Son in Law hacked into it and updated it to a later version of Android for me so I was able to get a couple of extra years out of it. I found out at Christmas he too has had to buy a new one, so don't feel too bad about that. I had to get a new phone last year when I could no longer even get into my Contacts to make a phone call.
So, today, after having the tablet since before Christmas was the day to set it up. First, I had to install the protective screen cover. I was fearing that so much because when I got my phone, the girl had to try twice to get the screen protector on and she still ended up leaving a bubble that I kept trying to get out until eventually I was finally able to get the bubble out, but it cracked the screen protector doing it. I followed all the directions and oh all the bubbles I had to push out, one obstinate one right in the middle of the screen. They say to work them out from the middle first, but that one just wouldn't budge. I ended up using my finger (which was how I cracked the one on my phone) to get it out, but I am now declaring victory. I was disappointed they didn't include the little squeege tool to get the bubbles out.
Migrating all my stuff over was pretty easy although I did have to do a little extra work to set up my E-mail accounts. Next was customizing the home screens with my apps. So, there are several apps Samsung puts on the home screen that I have no use for. One of them was Netflix. So, I long-press on the app and a little blurb shows up with options of what to do with it. I spent an inordinate amount of time trying to push that app over to the Remove option. Then, I thought maybe you have to do it from the list of apps, so I try that, but all that did was to add ANOTHER Netflix icon on my home screen which I also couldn't remove. It took me forever to figure out that you just long-press the icon until the options show up and then you click on the option you want. So, I think I'll stop there for tonight. I'll try and organize everything tomorrow when I'm fresh
Sorry for the long post, but I thought some might enjoy a little laugh at my expense. At least I was able to work through it eventually. But, you would expect more from a former engineer I would think.
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