Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

PasturesNew

If I had a diary for the rest of this year it'd have just two entries:
- My birthday
- Xmas day

Not worth running an online calendar or having a diary for

sss555s

I use windows live for all my stuff and push mail to my mobile. I prefer it to Google though i have a couple of gmail accounts too.

michaels

Can you use windows live docs on a machine without office installed?

Why do people use mail clients, what am I missing out on using webmail exclusively?

LydiaJ

michaels wrote: »

Why do people use mail clients, what am I missing out on using webmail exclusively?

I started using outlook express back in the 1990s when dialup cost money per minute. I upgraded to outlook when it came included with office a few years later. Since then I haven't found a cloud-based system that can match outlook's functionality, so I haven't switched. Besides, we have outlook (on exchange server) at work, which adds to the inertia.

neverdespairgirl

I use Ameol, which is a fantatic OLR. Easier to store, keep etc email, and it's not at someone else's server's risk.

zagubov

SingleSue wrote: »

I've told my kids to shoot me if I have to go into a home, after working in one and seeing how some of the staff treat the residents, I most def do not want to go into a home.

My parents instructions are for them not to be put into a home, if they need care, then buy it in from the equity in their house (plus they are a little errr....vocal shall we say about the government using their house to pay for them to be in a care home,

I've done that gig; - spent many summers working in an old person's home and psychogeriatric hospital. I've no fears about it- I found the staff to be dedicated, patient, good-humoured, good-natured and commited.

I'm concerned that others have had such negative experiences, but I don't know what you've been through.

As my wife's a bit younger than me, and I'm from the one part of Britain where they have to teach kids how to resuscitate heart attack vicitms I'm not sure I'm the one who'll have the luxury of using these facilities.

zagubov

michaels wrote: »

Why do people use mail clients, what am I missing out on using webmail exclusively?

After my cable company united artists became blueyonder and telewest and then virgin and changed the email addresses every time, I gave up on that nonsense and switched to webmail.

I'll be in trouble though, if in 20 years somebody says "anyone remember gmail or google" (and everybody says Haven't a Clue or give me a sec... I'll just see if Bing knows about them"):D

And before you say- can't happen! - do you all rermember telecoms networks like rabbit/ zonephone/ Phonepoint?

Davesnave

lostinrates wrote: »

I think though there are nice and good homes, but fewer of the really nice ones than the depressing ones.

Agreed, and I doubt if many elderly people have children capable of doing the research to ID the better ones. Often, it's a matter of having the time and stomach for the footwork, but if there's a belief that 'you get what you pay for' then that may limit the process too.

The two good ones I discovered were being run privately by people with a deep personal commitment to their role. Neither was expensive.

However, there's also competence; in two places I visited, it looked as if they were hanging on by their fingernails!

Generali

michaels wrote: »

Can you use windows live docs on a machine without office installed?

Why do people use mail clients, what am I missing out on using webmail exclusively?

Outlook has some useful stuff re dealing with contacts and also with your calendar. For example, you can send someone an emailed invitation that, if they accept it, will mark both your and their calendars with an appointment. You can also have it so that your contacts in the phone and your outlook will synchronise. It means that you can have all your contacts in one place and backed up too as there is a copy on your phone and another on your PC.

It works for me, especially as someone else pays my software bill.

GDB2222

LydiaJ wrote: »

Thanks GDB, but my outlook calendar is nicely colour coded with categories for work, kids, home, personal, etc (which is nice but I could manage without) and an action category that makes things appear in red if I need childcare and haven't yet organised it (and which is much more than nice, and I really don't want to do without - childcare is enough of a headache for me already without making things harder). Google calendar doesn't support categories or labels or anything that would do this job. A quick search turns up pages and pages of people complaining about the lack of this feature over the last two years, but nothing has happened, so I'm not holding my breath.

Check out Pimlical, then. http://www.pimlicosoftware.com/