Time to get organised and get on with it!

jwil

Hiddenidenity wrote: »

I dontknow I just hate the touch screen (it changes my words and I add random full stops by mistake it might be my fat fingers ) lol and its so much like my phone I prefer being sat on the laptop to the ipad it seems to give me headache more on the ipad too. x

I'm not sure how much I'll get on with touch screens either. My new phone's got one, but it seems ok so far. Not that I can use it properly yet as my sim card hasn't arrived yet :mad:

jwil

Hey everyone, TFI Friday :T It's been a long hard week this week, and next week is likely to be worse.

I'm a bit grumpy too at the moment, so that doesn't help.

I've made a few sales this week though and another today :T I have had to give someone a partial refund though as I misdescribed something. My buyer was very nice though and has left me very good feedback so I'm very grateful as it was 100% my fault.

Free listing again this weekend, so the relists will certainly be done and I shall see about getting some new bits on depending on how I get on.

Hope everyone is well

peaceandfreedom

Hiddenidenity wrote: »

I dontknow I just hate the touch screen (it changes my words and I add random full stops by mistake it might be my fat fingers ) lol and its so much like my phone I prefer being sat on the laptop to the ipad it seems to give me headache more on the ipad too. x

I have a touchscreen phone (HTC) and I have the same problem. I can type very accurately and quickly on my trusty laptop (wot I love :smileyhea) but on my phone, typing a text is an exercise in sheer frustration. Full stops instead of spaces, random words being subsituted for what I actually typed in, everything takes so much longer than it should. I swear a LOT using that phone.

Having said that, an iPad must have a much bigger keyboard and I'd say you'd get used to it - even going from my old laptop to the new one involved a lot of adaptation to get the 'feel' of the new keyboard.

The fact that the iPad is backlit means that it is going to be much harder on the eyes that using a Kindle which is much closer to the reading-a-paper-book experience. I love my Kindle too.

My main gripes with any Apple product are:

• inbuilt obsolescence - the whole point as far as Apple is concerned is that you replace your shiny new iWhatever every couple of years at least
• Apple dictate what you can do with your gadget, you have no freedom of choice, they decide what will run on it, you've got to buy everything from them
• Seriously overpriced, overhyped and over here!

When/if I buy a tablet PC, it won't be made by Apple.

jwil

peaceandfreedom wrote: »

I have a touchscreen phone (HTC) and I have the same problem. I can type very accurately and quickly on my trusty laptop (wot I love :smileyhea) but on my phone, typing a text is an exercise in sheer frustration. Full stops instead of spaces, random words being subsituted for what I actually typed in, everything takes so much longer than it should. I swear a LOT using that phone.

Having said that, an iPad must have a much bigger keyboard and I'd say you'd get used to it - even going from my old laptop to the new one involved a lot of adaptation to get the 'feel' of the new keyboard.

The fact that the iPad is backlit means that it is going to be much harder on the eyes that using a Kindle which is much closer to the reading-a-paper-book experience. I love my Kindle too.

My main gripes with any Apple product are:

• inbuilt obsolescence - the whole point as far as Apple is concerned is that you replace your shiny new iWhatever every couple of years at least
• Apple dictate what you can do with your gadget, you have no freedom of choice, they decide what will run on it, you've got to buy everything from them
• Seriously overpriced, overhyped and over here!

When/if I buy a tablet PC, it won't be made by Apple.

My laptop is great, but one thing I wish I'd noticed beforehand is that it has a row of extra keys down the side of the keyboard, so for ages, I was always one letter out when I was typing. I'm getting better, but it still annoys me.

My only apple gadget is the ipod, and I :smileyhea that too. I've got the big classic one, so I've got loads of music, audiobooks and even films and tv shows on there. I think all I need in the world is my ipod and kindle, laptop (and I'm hoping my phone will join them too) and I'm happy


Just think how decluttered my house would be then :rotfl:

jwil

Well a good start to the morning, I've won £25 on the lottery :j :j :j Still waiting for the big one though

Not sure what the plan is today, hopefully get achieving!

jwil

Raise an extra £500 in June - £118/£500 - £382 to go

List 200 new items - 9/200 (DH - 7)

Review rest of amazon listings - 0/144

Clear magazines - 84/173

Read coursebook 1 - started

Read coursebook 2

Start assignment

[STRIKE]Sort recipe cuttings[/STRIKE]

Declutter 100 items - 150/100

Repair clothing - 4/9 items

1. Bag full of hotel toiletries - years old and pretty grotty - bin.
2. bundle of leaflets - recycled
3-4 Two plastic crates - recycling centre
5-6 Two polystyrene trays - recycling centre
7. Pile of magazine cuttings - recycled.
8-9 Cardboard storage boxes - recycled
10. Assorted cards - recycled
11. Bundle of paperwork - recycled.
12. Another bundle of cards - recycled.
13. Book - car boot sale
14-22 Fabric and clothing - recycling
23-25 bags - car boot sale
26-37. ebay parcels - posted
38-39 air fresheners - work
40-46 empty perfume bottles - recycled
47-51 newspapers - recycled.
52-54 ebay parcels posted
55. magazine - recycled (DH)
56-63 - papers - recycled (DH)
64. Book - car boot sale
65. Book - car boot sale
66-92 Papers - recycled (DH)
93-96 Perfume bottles - recycled
97 - 140 Books - car boot sale
141. Book - car boot sale
142-150 Magazines - recycled (DH)

DedicatedDFW

Hi all,

Jwil i read about you saying you were getting the kindle fire - is this to replace the current kindle or does it do alot more ? I am so behind on the technological things

Ooh lots of useful chatter about the ipad :think: Must admit part of what appeals to me about this is the little portable keyboard you can buy - i am another of the ones who struggles with a touchscreen Mind you [STRIKE]if [/STRIKE] when i save the money up for this i'll pop into a few places and get details on different tablets - i know someone who's got the blackberry playbook and they are very happy with it - although i've still not been able to find out from them if i can use it for what i need to - searching for a job, drafting application letters, starting application forms and coursework for uni - so any advice muchly appreciated And maybe some bay of e ?

Well done on the lottery win and on the sales jwil :T I need to get some listings done but am very tired today Really need to get rid of alot more clothes i think - i just want space now!!

I'm still restricted on my listings which is really annoying especially as i sold some stuff on free postage and had positive feedback and yet my score is completely unaltered :mad:

brizzledfw

Hi there

Just briefly checking in..where does the time go??!!

We have a load of Apple stuff..really stable and our desktop is still going from 2002 so they can be kept running. Anyway..their products always divide people!!!

I am decorating too P&F..or rather I am not. But OH is!! Going well but it's massacring any chance of NSDs as every 2 minutes we seem to be in the DIY store down the road. Beading, paint, sugar soap, fixings for mirrors, loo roll holder ( after 10 years of just sticking the roll on the radiator we are moving on up!!)..but it all adds up. No wonder there are so many stories on here of people who have got into serious debt from doing up houses! After the bathroom comes a downstairs room..does it ever stop??!

When OH is away I have the kitchen and downstairs loo to do...think I may have not exactly lucked out there!!

Anyway hope all are OK. Well done on the lottery win jwil! That's a decent PAD you know!! And hope you feel less grumpy soon x

Brizzle

brizzledfw

PS....just in case anyone was thinking I do a lot of decorating the last time we decorated the bathroom was 10 years ago and everything else is not far off! I wouldn't want you to think we were often decorating..cos that'd be a lie!!!:rotfl:

jwil

DedicatedDFW wrote: »

Hi all,

Jwil i read about you saying you were getting the kindle fire - is this to replace the current kindle or does it do alot more ? I am so behind on the technological things

Ooh lots of useful chatter about the ipad :think: Must admit part of what appeals to me about this is the little portable keyboard you can buy - i am another of the ones who struggles with a touchscreen Mind you [STRIKE]if [/STRIKE] when i save the money up for this i'll pop into a few places and get details on different tablets - i know someone who's got the blackberry playbook and they are very happy with it - although i've still not been able to find out from them if i can use it for what i need to - searching for a job, drafting application letters, starting application forms and coursework for uni - so any advice muchly appreciated And maybe some bay of e ?

Well done on the lottery win and on the sales jwil :T I need to get some listings done but am very tired today Really need to get rid of alot more clothes i think - i just want space now!!

I'm still restricted on my listings which is really annoying especially as i sold some stuff on free postage and had positive feedback and yet my score is completely unaltered :mad:

The Kindle Fire is Amazon's tablet which is supposedly due out sometime this year. It's out in the US already and appears to get good reviews. I think it's due to be around £250 so cheaper than the ipad, and I presumably will be able to sync my kindle to it as well if I want to. I figure it will be a cheaper introduction to a tablet, and if I can save up lots of vouchers won't cost me a lot either