My Newest Toys
By Keiti | May 11, 2008
In preparation for my trip to Scotland and grad school, I’ve invested in a new laptop. And I finally made the decision to switch from a PC to a mac.
It only arrived on Friday, and I’m still figuring out how things work and learning how to operate the damn thing and even though I haven’t done much more than the cursory looksee, I’m already in love.
Even though I’m sick of Microsoft stuff (which was part of the reason I decided to switch to a mac) I’m happy that they finally offer Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for mac, all of which will come in handy for school, not to mention the writing I have that was done in Word and would have been a huge hassle to switch over to another program.
I did, however, run into a bit of an annoyance; apparently macros can’t be created in Word 2008 for mac. Which normally wouldn’t be a big deal except that I do all of my script formatting in Word and that requires recording macros. I can hardly afford Final Draft (which runs about $300) which is the creme de jour of scriptwriting programs; up-til-now I’d refused to give in and shell out that kind of money but I nearly gave in yesterday - since most of the writing I do is in the form of scripts it doesn’t do me any good if I don’t have a way to format them properly.
But, as luck would have it, I manage to solve the issue without having to spend the $300. At some point, I remember hearing about freeware scriptwriting software. A cursory google search netted me just the information I needed and I found a program called Celtx.
I’ve only just started working with it, but it’s a dream and is actually far less hassle than setting up the formatting in Word.
I’m just beginning my adventures in macland, but I can already tell it’s going to be extraordinary.
Topics: Life in General |
May 13th, 2008 at 12:59 am
Glad you’re happy with your new toys, but I was almost expecting something about mother’s day, being away from your fam, that kind of stuff…glad you’re able to stay focused on the important stuff, like scripting software! lol
May 13th, 2008 at 1:02 am
I don’t have to post on my blog that I wished the most important person a Happy Mother’s Day.
May 13th, 2008 at 1:05 am
it might take away from your hard ass persona too!
May 13th, 2008 at 1:12 am
That, too.
