Gadget Gertie or not?

lilac_lady

Errata has posted a reply regarding the new I-Pad saying that she's a Gadget Gertie. I'm definitely not excited about new gadgets. Are you a Gertie or a ............can't think of a name for those like me who don't particularly fiddling :mad: with new gadgets.

chesky369

The word is Luddite - and I'm definitely one. My I-pod is lying unused for months on the sideboard. My mobile phone is hardly ever used. Every time I want to play a DVD I have to look up my notes on how to do it.

When I hit my middle years, it never occurred to me I'd have to learn whole new chunks of stuff- first word-processors, then amstrad computers and Wordstar, then PCs with word for windows. Will it never end?

Errata

I don't need to post do I ? I've been shopped

Farway

chesky369 wrote: »

The word is Luddite - and I'm definitely one. My I-pod is lying unused for months on the sideboard. My mobile phone is hardly ever used. Every time I want to play a DVD I have to look up my notes on how to do it.

When I hit my middle years, it never occurred to me I'd have to learn whole new chunks of stuff- first word-processors, then amstrad computers and Wordstar, then PCs with word for windows. Will it never end?

Not sure Luddite fits really, they were against technology full stop as it took their jobs away, perhaps we are more "who cares, can't be @rsed" folk?

Like many my mobile is mainly unused, I gave away an I pod I won as it was of no use to me, I also won a digital sports watch in a raffle this Christmas, blowed if I can work it, however the bottle of Bells I won at same time I did manage to fathom out :beer:

I have just bought a sat nav, on offer at ASDA, not delivered yet, but just hoping it will guide me faultlessly to reunion at Stafford this autumn, suspect it will probably not and I will be back to map on passenger seat yet again

mandyc

I love my i-pod. In fact I have two i-pods. My first was an i-pod mini which has now been supeceded by an i-pod touch.

On this I can bore all my friends with pics of the DGKs. I have 1562 photos on it (and more to go!!!) and thousand of music tracks. I can read my e-mail, catch up with the latest news on an ITN app, get weather forecasts.

Best of all my DS and DDs think it is hilarious that I download podcasts of the Archers and other Radio 4 programmes.

Savvy_Sue

Farway wrote: »

I have just bought a sat nav, on offer at ASDA, not delivered yet, but just hoping it will guide me faultlessly to reunion at Stafford this autumn, suspect it will probably not and I will be back to map on passenger seat yet again

Whatever you do, check the map BEFORE you leave, and have it on the passenger seat alongside the SatNav. Do NOT trust the SatNav over a recent map. They have a mind of their own ...

Try it out locally, use it to go to a few places you know the route to perfectly and see what it does to you. Also bear in mind they 'lose' the satellite periodically, and in some areas it's very patchy, even in built-up areas!

I've been in a fairly remote area this weekend, and there were 3 of us with SatNavs. I followed signs as soon as I saw them, ignoring Sally, and was the only one not to have huge problems finding the house ...

On the other hand, we went to a pub a half hour drive away, and Sally could not get a signal there or back!

And that's my confession, I name the technology. A sister has Natalie the Navigator, I have Sally the SatNav, we've started getting some Netbooks at work, and I have one at home, so there's Nettie (the first netbook), Sammy (the Samsung), Evie (the Eee PC) and Donny the Dongle. :rotfl: The boys think I'm nuts ...

pmduk

I've always named my computers as well! I've had Ethel, Sam who was replaced by Samson (Sam-son) and also my netbook Minnie.

seven-day-weekend

I love our Satnav which we bought last June as a 60th birthday present for both of us. Colleen (we have a nice Irish lady who gives us the directions) has guided us to a bungalow in rural Pembrokeshire without a fault; to a remote farmhouse in Yorkshire without wavering;even to the car park of a Tesco in a different town (because they had an offer on and none left in our Tesco).

Her greatest achievement was to guide us around Madrid's ring road system on our way back to our Spanish village in October. We have ALWAYS got lost before, every time. Colleen wanted us to turn off in a place where we would never have dreamed of doing so, we trusted her and hey presto! ten minutes later we were the other side of Madrid. Painless.

We have updated the maps (a free dowload immediately after purchase) and my husband says he will do them every couple of years.

I do have a mobile phone and I do use it, but all it does is calls and texts, very simple.

We have two computers (desktop and laptop) and two digital cameras.

On the other hand, a friend of mine couldn't even change the CD in her player when her husband was away and had to keep playing the same one over and over again.......

Errata

I love my satnav because I have absolutely no sense of direction and could easily get lost in a telephone box Does it have a name?
Yup - Moaning Myrtle

Farway

Update on satnav, due to collect it tomorrow from local ASDA store, luckily I do know the way there & back, but seem to detour at the Spotted Cow for some reason :beer:

seven-day-weekend

Farway wrote: »

Update on satnav, due to collect it tomorrow from local ASDA store, luckily I do know the way there & back, but seem to detour at the Spotted Cow for some reason :beer:

Test it by putting your home address or postcode in and see if it takes you home, especially if you have :beer: too much!.