Unless you've been completely out of touch this week, you've probably heard that Apple has a new toy soon to be available.  I don't need one, but it would be so fun to have one.  I'm all about the toys.  However, it's always best to wait and let them work out the bugs before dashing out to buy the latest and greatest.  Must be sensible... at least a little bit...

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Speaking of toys, I have an iPod touch.  I love it.  It does exactly what I want it todo.  I have my contacts and calendar on it also my todo list (Things) and my podcasts, audiobooks, etc.  What do I dislike?  The onscreen keyboard.  I just can't get used to it. However almost everything I use on the iPod can be updated through my connection to my iMac. I try to type in my Mac and sync whenever possible.

Then I have my cell phone the LG Env3 which I use as a phone and a text messenger.  Best thing about it is the 2 different sets of keys - the outside number keypad and the inside qwerty keyboard.  They are excellent.

I have found that division of labor is the best thing in the world.  The batteries on each of these devices last quite a long time.  I LOVE the keyboard on the env3 for texting, I love the screen resolution on the ipod for looking at my calendar, etc. 

All the complaints people have when they try to combine these 2 types of devices - I don't have those problems.  So I carry 2 devices - they're in my purse.  It's not an issue 99.9% of the time.

I used to think I could make all these things work on one device. But the battery life sucked and they were kludgy.  Someone  may eventually get it all to work well together.  In the meantime I'll stick with my separate systems - it works better for me.

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I really love my iMac.  It has taken some little effort on my part to learn various things about it like keyboard shortcuts, but all in all it's a great machine.   

However, I'm not a fan of the Safari browser.  It doesn't do fonts right for me.  So I use my Firefox browser nearly all the time. There has been the occasional download that doesn't work correctly unless I use Safari (rather like some sites don't like anything except IE).  Since I don't download much it's seldom an issue.

So I have all these bookmarks in FF and I wanted to sync them to Safari (just in case - in case of what I still haven't figured out it just seemed to be a good idea).  I downloaded Xmarks to do this. It did work to sync everything but created a "typing lag" that was driving me nuts. It would sometimes type normally and other times I'd type an entire word... wait.... then it would show up.  So I dumped Xmarks.  Seems to have solved the problem. 

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Well, I'm off to get thai food for dinner. Then I'm going to have a glass of wine and try to forget this last week which has been a royal pain all the way around. 

I'm going to see if I can actually do some other stuff besides troubleshooting that would be a novelty.  Getting to my blog reading would be even better.  But first - dinner!

Posted by: Teresa in WebTech at 06:21 PM | Comments (5) | Add Comment
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1 It's always neat to read what other people are using, how well it works, and what they think about it. I was offered a Blackberry Pearl when I started my current job; I gave it back. I just want a phone that will make clear phone calls.

Having said that, I can easily see the utility of a PDA for those who are out & about all the time. I spend most of my time in the office, so I don't need all the other stuff.

Posted by: Rev. Paul at January 29, 2010 08:16 PM (k85eb)

2 I have the same LG and I like it for the same reason.
I recently ran into a problem with it shutting off when I slid it open or closed.  Adding a piece of paper behind the battery solved that.
It doesn't do much PDA stuff, but I keep a simple life, so I don't need much.  I used to keep everything on on HTC and a Treo before that.

And I'm a PC guy.

Posted by: _Jon at January 30, 2010 08:14 AM (QIrTA)

3 Rev Paul - I didn't really need a PDA type device until I ended up doing meeting set up for a professional group I belong to.  So much extra detail descended upon me with that little job... I had to find a way to organize it and keep it handy.  Now that I've finally got a handle on it, I'm so much less stressed about it. LOL.

_Jon - I had a Treo (LOVED the calendar but the phone and battery life sucked pond water).  Then I had a Blackberry which has the suckiest calendar ever, so-so phone and really bad battery life because it's always checking mail (a feature I didn't need).  That's why I gave up and went back to separate devices.  Now things do what they're supposed to do and do it fairly well.  I like that.

I had heard about the Env3 and the "turn off" issue.  So far I haven't had a problem with it, but thank you so much for the tip!  I'll remember that if it starts happening to me.   

Oh and I do use a PC - but that's now nearly exclusively for work only.  It makes my life so much easier (working at home) since I separated the home/work computers. 

Posted by: Teresa at January 30, 2010 06:02 PM (ZCuP9)

4 I never use anything that has an operating system that ends in dot zero. I'll wait a little while, but I NEED a new toy.  In the meantime, I think I'll snag a nice .357 lever action carbine.

Bwahahahah!!!

Posted by: Yabu at February 01, 2010 07:29 AM (VxNeS)

5 Yeah the dot zeros are never the thing to buy unless you have time and money to waste. 

I like your second option - it has much merit.  LOL

Posted by: Teresa at February 01, 2010 11:46 PM (ZCuP9)

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