Nice people thread part 6 - thrice by twice as nice :)

PasturesNew

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Mrs chewie is off to a wedding in Italy for 5 days tomorrow. Woohooo! I'm not going to tidy anything up for a week and ham sandwiches for every meal!! So excited.

Sounds good now ... but don't forget to get all the takeaway menus in and ready. It's not the same googling them and hoping they're online and readable... you can't beat a physical A4 folded into 3 menu in your hand.

Also - get home delivery to bring in your beer on day 1.

PasturesNew

chewmylegoff wrote: »

PN - grand designs on channel 139 now is about a Cornish silver mine - you might be interested. Bloke is quite annoying though.

I think I've seen that one... if it's the one I was interested in the £20k bill to cap the mine...,. always wondered how much that costs.

I'm half watching some Ian Brady programme on Channel 4.

Not clever enough to be able to record

zagubov

Spirit wrote: »

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Mrs chewie QUOTE]

Is there something I have missed?

We're all thinking that!;)


Anyway,finally fed up with being the thread's Fred Flintstone and splashed out on a budget, very-SME smartphone.
Uses android, it does.

Looking for advice on what are the most useful apps if anyone here uses anything similar. I've downloaded
Evernote
Dropbox
iPlayer
Librivox (audiobooks)
Grooveshark


Any suggestions for anything you've found useful? Is it worth getting kindle/ or is there any free/cheap software that lets you check MS Office documents in dropbox for example?

I'm on a dirt-cheap talkmobile PAYG and using the internet mainly via wifi.

michaels

Nice choice of phone,allegedly you can get them for £67 with topcashback and new customer discount from very.co.uk I have fancy widgets, the sleepmaker app lir recomended, a music player called ttpod cos it plays wavs, a calandar widget which syncs with my google calandar, the talking transalator, a settings app so you can turn on/off wifi, gps etc to keep battery running, firefox, guitar tuner, titanim backup.

michaels

Lads party at Chewies this weekend - what day is the DW back to tidy up?

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Sorry to hear everyone is falling to bits. I, for once, am relatively ache and pain free, so perhaps imagining me going on about it in a smug way will make you feel better.

Mrs chewie is off to a wedding in Italy for 5 days tomorrow. Woohooo! I'm not going to tidy anything up for a week and ham sandwiches for every meal!! So excited.

lostinrates

I also have few visual timewasters, like shapeshifter and atm i am in love with myfitnesspal. Even though i cannot really work it. I got days messed up and had to pretend today was last tuesday to get in sync. Really i just like scanning in bar codes i think.

PasturesNew

Interesting program on BBC2. James May's Things You Need To....

Just did a bit about brains and how they found out that different bits did different things.

I missed most of it though, it just finished.

PasturesNew

I will finally be getting a posh phone.... within 2 weeks. So ... should I get the same one Zag's got, or can the supershopper find something better?

As of today I'd be wanting to: surf t'Internet/here(?), read emails (maybe), GPS (find out if that's any good) .... and take d4mned good photos with a good optical zoom.

Oh - and barcode scanning .... not sure why I'd want it, but it sounds useful.

I am also a HEAVY user of Evernote.... it's running on my laptop every minute the laptop's on and it now contains my whole life.

zagubov

michaels wrote: »

Nice choice of phone,allegedly you can get them for £67 with topcashback and new customer discount from very.co.uk I have fancy widgets, the sleepmaker app lir recomended, a music player called ttpod cos it plays wavs, a calandar widget which syncs with my google calandar, the talking transalator, a settings app so you can turn on/off wifi, gps etc to keep battery running, firefox, guitar tuner, titanim backup.

Alas, I'm a long-standing very customer and no discount for me!:(

Firefox, you say; (I use it on my mac) - is that a better browser than the built-in android one (which lacks a name as far as I can see).

I like the sound of some of those apps.:T

I just found out what the sleepmaker one is. Years ago, visiting the US I saw cassettes of rainstorm in city background sounds The tagline was "The Future of Music Isn't Music"). Was tempted to buy it oddly enough as I find the sound of rain calming when I'm indoors). I think I've found it it's this.

lostinrates

Oh, and photobucket app.

Iplaye is an app( i cannot work it) and other stuff you are used o accessing will tell you its better a a n app. I just use the sites where i can.