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

chewmylegoff

JonnyBravo wrote: »

As michaels has alluded to you won't find any phone with a 10x optical zoom. I'd be surprised if you found one with any optical zoom to be honest but I haven't looked.
Phone makers aren't prepared/can't sacrifice the space needed to have a zoom lens and so rely on digital zoom.
As I suspect you know, this is of course inferior but becomes less of an issue as resolution increases to some degree.


And to your other query: CABG (prononunced "cabbage")= coronary artery bypass graft


Edit: found phone with optical zoom so they must exist. This was the first one available in Europe and the article says available from 2011.
http://crave.cnet.co.uk/mobiles/altek-leo-14-megapixel-3x-optical-zoom-android-monster-phone-invades-europe-50001008/

I should get a phone like that really. In fact, they could drop the phone functions as I hardly ever use them, a camera that can surf the Internet, play music and run apps would be perfect!

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

Yes, I have power! That was like a few days with my arms tied behind my back.

Did you do the old activities... spinning a hoop with a stick, played hopscotch, sewed a sampler?

vivatifosi wrote: »

Pastures, if you will be having access to Sky for a bit longer, I wanted to flag this TV programme to you. It's typical of some of the weirder stuff you find on satellite and could provide a useful insight into the minds of some of the more radical posters around these parts:
http://natgeotv.com/uk/doomsday-preppers

Not sure I'm clever enough to be able to find that on the actual telly.... I press a button that takes me through the channels... and I can see something on one of those that's on "soon" so can press a button that sets a reminder. And I can put the volume up and down I can rewind when I missed something.... but then I'm stuck as to how to get back to where I was, except by changing channel.

Not bright me...

PasturesNew

misskool wrote: »

If you can find an Apple store/authorised retailer nearby, they will let you play with iPad/iPhone etc before you buy. And they will show you how to use everything. It's part of the sales/marketing process.

Looks like there is one "The new three floor shop is at .... will offer store visitors a chance to try the latest Macs, and also has a dedicated seminar suite where customers will be able to take part in demonstrations." It's in what I think of as the "start of the rough bit of town...." though so wouldn't have randomly walked past it.

lostinrates

There is a digger in our study to be. Its really odd to see a digger in a small room. In a house at all really.

The cats are climbiong the walls inside wanting to see what is going on, and the 'house chickens' are bored in their tiny run, being very used to having full run of the front garden now. Its not going to be long before Maybe proves to be a definitely and has to go . He is so beautiful aswell. Which leaves us with one little girl to go out with the 'big chiickens' this year, because the little skies hatched will stay in the garden. One of the boys that was here has already gone to live in the New Forest.

PasturesNew

Just had a quick tot up of costs to date, all the temp addresses and storage, up to and including the deposit/first month's rent on my next place (so really 3 months' costs) ... £5k. It soon goes! That's just rent/storage costs, not living or spending or anything.

I think I'm feeling a little bit broke.

lostinrates

zagubov wrote: »

reported as Spam

I think the correct responce is meant to be

You're welcome.

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

PasturesNew

I'm sure it was my information being thanked.... I've a HUGE following.....

sss555s

zagubov wrote: »

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.

Airdroid Lets you wirelessly manage your Android from your browser.

Catch Great for notes, pictures or audio and syncs to your PC just like Evernote.

AK Notepad Great for quick easy simple notes.

Boat Browser A pretty fast and intuitive android web browser.

Cloudskipper Music Player I tried a few and found this music player most user friendly/ best sound with a good graphic equaliser.

ES File Explorer A great tool for any file management of your mobile.


You could try this for your MS office docs though there are other suggestions on the left hand side of the page...

Kingsoft Office


Some fun games...

Free Flow

Trainyard Express

Sudoku 10'000 Free

BMX Boy

Ski Safari


My fav is Samba File Sharing as you can manage your mobile over WiFi from your PC in computer just like any other hard drive, which is great for dragging and dropping files either way and AdFree is good too but you need root access for those apps to work, which you wont have without other modifications.


Edit: Links wouldn't work from the play store but all apps are there.


Have fun :beer:

PasturesNew

Oh boy ... apps to do things I didn't even know existed......

There needs to be an app that does it all for you - as well as deciding

PasturesNew

I snapped..... completely sanitized the minging microwave. Flattie won't recognise their 'clean home' when they get back..... it'll have been OCD'd.


Top tip: don't ever invite me round.... I'll develop an irrational desire to clean something.... not everything, just one thing will be making me chomp at the bit.