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Feb. 18th, 2012 02:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sabinetzinYou guys I forgot to say!
I have had a brief ("brief", it took a month) phone saga; Franziska, my beloved and much-maligned Palm Pre, just up and stopped working. I had to get a go phone for a while, and oh my god, I wanted to bash it against the wall. It didn't even have predictive texting, and it defaulted to speakerphone every time I got a call- and before you call first world problems on me, let me point out that my eight dollar Guatemalan cell phone was VASTLY preferable.
But now I have Eames! He is a gorgeous Samsung Captivate Glide, because if you one day see me standing on a street corner and preaching, twigs in my hair, wearing sackcloth, it will be because I have been forced to use a touchscreen keyboard. But he is sexy, particularly because of the feedback vibration (heh)- like, buttons on the screen feel like keys, because you get feedback off them. Like I said. Sexy. Also he is an Android, so there are more than five apps. I am not an apps person, but, y'know. Being able to edit my gdocs is great, and Evernote is pretty epic.
The only problem is that I feel like a jackass holding him up to my ear, because he is ENORMOUS compared to Franziska and not, like, phone shaped. IDK. But who gets calls anymore?
I was going to take a picture of him but, uh, he's my camera right now, and I was going to get a screencap, but I read the instructions on how to take one and I was like tl;dr. So instead, here is Pakal II, my desktop, as photographed by Eames (picture is HUGENORMOUS and, uh. Maaaaay have some interesting text on it).
PS did I mention my email alert is the sound of a bottle being opened? It kind of makes me feel like a drunk, but it makes me so happy.
So now my electronic kit is Eames, Pakal II, Motoko the Zen, my externals Wintermute and Cayce, and Thomas Raith the eee. However, Thomas Raith is not long for this world. :( He's working fine, but he's almost four years old. Like, he's been a workhorse and a real trooper, but it's time to move on, esp. because the OS is no longer supported and I can't install anything new (long story). So if anyone has opinions on netbooks? He's 10 inches, and honestly I don't want anything bigger than about 12. I am poss. considering Lenovos. They look pretty sexy and are comfortably in my price range.
Hurrah! \o/
I have had a brief ("brief", it took a month) phone saga; Franziska, my beloved and much-maligned Palm Pre, just up and stopped working. I had to get a go phone for a while, and oh my god, I wanted to bash it against the wall. It didn't even have predictive texting, and it defaulted to speakerphone every time I got a call- and before you call first world problems on me, let me point out that my eight dollar Guatemalan cell phone was VASTLY preferable.
But now I have Eames! He is a gorgeous Samsung Captivate Glide, because if you one day see me standing on a street corner and preaching, twigs in my hair, wearing sackcloth, it will be because I have been forced to use a touchscreen keyboard. But he is sexy, particularly because of the feedback vibration (heh)- like, buttons on the screen feel like keys, because you get feedback off them. Like I said. Sexy. Also he is an Android, so there are more than five apps. I am not an apps person, but, y'know. Being able to edit my gdocs is great, and Evernote is pretty epic.
The only problem is that I feel like a jackass holding him up to my ear, because he is ENORMOUS compared to Franziska and not, like, phone shaped. IDK. But who gets calls anymore?
I was going to take a picture of him but, uh, he's my camera right now, and I was going to get a screencap, but I read the instructions on how to take one and I was like tl;dr. So instead, here is Pakal II, my desktop, as photographed by Eames (picture is HUGENORMOUS and, uh. Maaaaay have some interesting text on it).
PS did I mention my email alert is the sound of a bottle being opened? It kind of makes me feel like a drunk, but it makes me so happy.
So now my electronic kit is Eames, Pakal II, Motoko the Zen, my externals Wintermute and Cayce, and Thomas Raith the eee. However, Thomas Raith is not long for this world. :( He's working fine, but he's almost four years old. Like, he's been a workhorse and a real trooper, but it's time to move on, esp. because the OS is no longer supported and I can't install anything new (long story). So if anyone has opinions on netbooks? He's 10 inches, and honestly I don't want anything bigger than about 12. I am poss. considering Lenovos. They look pretty sexy and are comfortably in my price range.
Hurrah! \o/
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Date: 2012-02-18 04:45 pm (UTC)A BUNCH OF STUFF YOU DID NOT ASK ABOUT
One thing about GDocs for Android. No, two things!
1. It sucks so much data you would not believe it, because it is constantly syncing with the server. I think GDocs alone is responsible for 90% of my bandwidth usage, which is something like 400MB a month now, and I almost never even leave the house!
2. Be really careful if you're editing on cell network and not wifi! If you're done writing, wait a good two minutes before you navigate away from the app, because there's some lag time involved with saving the document to the server. (Even two minutes might not be enough.) I have lost so much good stuff that way >_< Usually wifi is really good about stuff, but I've gotten burned a couple times lately, so I'm being really careful.
A few of the better office suites will sync stuff with GDocs! This means they download a copy to your phone, you can work on it locally, and they save and re-upload to the server. This is perfect if you are the only one working on a document, or if you can tell your coauthors that you are working on something and please don't do anything to it because your copy will overwrite theirs.
What I actually do these days is download a text copy of whatever I'm working on, and store it on Dropbox. Then I use my Dropbox app to download the text file, and I work with it in Jota Text Editor, which IMO is the nicest text editor out there (but if you want something with fancy fonts and colors you'll need one of the office suites mentioned above). It's more work but results in less data loss, which is key for me! ^_^
Let me know if you want other Android app suggestions! ^_^
As for netbooks, I got nothin' -- I only just now have my first, and it's a hybrid tablet/netbook (tablet that has a keyboard dock). But Lenovos have a good reputation!
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Date: 2012-02-19 12:45 am (UTC)I'm one of those awful wasteful people who never uses wifi. /o\ But, I tried the cell network out in QO, and since it's not a constant sync, I think it's going to be less of an issue.
I am always for suggestions! Like, all I've downloaded is crossword puzzles, flashlight, Tricorder, Fruit Ninja, Tweetdeck, and tumblr (also DoodleGod, which I haven't gotten to play yet but is supposed to be epic and a half).
Netbooks, man, idk, idk. I went up to Best Buy today to look at them, and they only had ASUS, and I am DONE with them (computers aren't that bad, but tech support is). Everybody seems to be going to the tablet hybrid, and it just doesn't work for my applications at all. :(