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#13
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Join Date: Apr 2011
Location: Spring Lake, Michigan
Posts: 978
Fast check out lanes
Ha! I'm still learning how to do the fast check out at the grocery store at Wal-Mart. I've got the Kroger one down pat. There is one Wal-Mart fast check out register that I try to avoid because I always need assistance with the crazy thing.
The other ones at this Wal-Mart haven't been a problem. Well, yesterday a really nice assistant explained what the problem was. We discussed the difference between Wal-Mart's and Kroger's. Even though she was about 30 years younger than me, she agreed when I said life was getting to complicated. So folks, no Ipad or Iphone for me.
The other ones at this Wal-Mart haven't been a problem. Well, yesterday a really nice assistant explained what the problem was. We discussed the difference between Wal-Mart's and Kroger's. Even though she was about 30 years younger than me, she agreed when I said life was getting to complicated. So folks, no Ipad or Iphone for me.
#14
Super Member
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Pacific NW
Posts: 9,395
I like the library, but I looooove my Kindle. I can get whatever book I want any time of the day or night while wearing my jammies. The library has finally caught on and now has ebooks for loan - fabulous!!!
#15
Super Member
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: Horse Country, FL
Posts: 7,341
My son thinks I'm old fashion because I still go to the library. He wants to get me one of those E-book things. I really do not want one. I enjoy visiting the library. My next high-tech is a new laptop. And that's so I can sit outside on nice days or if I want to laze in bed on rainy mornings. I gave mine to my oldest GD and I kinda miss it--
We do get attached to being in touch, don't we? It's the only way I hear from my son (3200 miles away).
JoanneS-I agree with your husband! :-)
#16
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Dallas area, Texas, USA
Posts: 3,042
Not knowing how to use new computers has more to do with Windows8 than with the computer, right? A friend brought her new computer over last week and we were trying to figure it out. My first experience with the new Windows was horrible and I won't be getting a new computer until they come up with something better. I finally thought I found a navigation bar, but when I typed in "google.com" it took me to something in Bing. If it was mine, first priority would be to remove all traces of Bing and the second would be to get Firefox. I also thought the word "charms" for the icons in what used to be the control panel is downright insulting. Was this supposed to appeal to 6-yr-olds or what?! I don't enjoy pointless changes and have to be convinced that something is an improvement before I'll buy it, and I detest the time wasted learning it when I could be learning something else.
For anyone similarly stymied by Windows8, I found there is a series of tutorials for it on Youtube. I don't know if they're helpful, but that's probably where I would have to begin. That assumes you have a normal computer to view Youtube while it leads you through the Windows8 computer on your lap.
I, too, love my Kindle, and if my computer crashes for good, a bigger, better Kindle may be the replacement. I enjoy the iPhone, too, but that little screen is too limiting. I liked my old Razr phone and didn't know I wanted the iPhone until the family got it for me a couple of years ago. Besides phone calls, I use it for a camera, calculator, clock, flashlight, bargain gas finder, navigator, calling up coupons, checking the weather, identifying celestial objects, reading (when I'm stuck waiting and the Kindle is at home), playing games, and for quick web searches if a question comes up away from home, and probably some other things I can't think of right now. I have Pandora and my favorite radio station apps, but would rarely have a reason to listen to it that way. I also have police/emergency band radio on it, just because it was free. If there are a lot of sirens you can sometimes figure out where not to go. It would have been so cool to have all these gismos when our kids were growing up.
For anyone similarly stymied by Windows8, I found there is a series of tutorials for it on Youtube. I don't know if they're helpful, but that's probably where I would have to begin. That assumes you have a normal computer to view Youtube while it leads you through the Windows8 computer on your lap.
I, too, love my Kindle, and if my computer crashes for good, a bigger, better Kindle may be the replacement. I enjoy the iPhone, too, but that little screen is too limiting. I liked my old Razr phone and didn't know I wanted the iPhone until the family got it for me a couple of years ago. Besides phone calls, I use it for a camera, calculator, clock, flashlight, bargain gas finder, navigator, calling up coupons, checking the weather, identifying celestial objects, reading (when I'm stuck waiting and the Kindle is at home), playing games, and for quick web searches if a question comes up away from home, and probably some other things I can't think of right now. I have Pandora and my favorite radio station apps, but would rarely have a reason to listen to it that way. I also have police/emergency band radio on it, just because it was free. If there are a lot of sirens you can sometimes figure out where not to go. It would have been so cool to have all these gismos when our kids were growing up.
#17
Super Member
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Pacific NW
Posts: 9,395
Not knowing how to use new computers has more to do with Windows8 than with the computer, right? A friend brought her new computer over last week and we were trying to figure it out. My first experience with the new Windows was horrible and I won't be getting a new computer until they come up with something better.
However, there IS hope: Microsoft is supposed to be coming out with a patch in a couple of months that will make Windows 8 behave like Windows 7. I'll be hanging on by my fingernails until then.
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