Tara: 'Your One-Stop Spot to Shop for Lots of New-Age and Occult Items.' Catchy. Giles: Think so? Tara: Uh huh. In a... hard to say sorta way.

'Sleeper'


Buffistechnology 3: "Press Some Buttons, See What Happens."

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Sue - Dec 09, 2014 6:02:09 am PST #24202 of 25496
hip deep in pie

I need to shut down apps on my orig. iPad frequently.

I do know what you mean Askye. I got my iPhone in September and I am still figuring things out. I frequently wonder if a question is too dumb to ask my iphone owning friends or if I should just google the question and save myself the embarrassment.


Jessica - Dec 09, 2014 6:30:46 am PST #24203 of 25496
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

You can also swipe up from the bottom of the screen using 4 fingers to bring up the active apps - don't know if that's set by default or something you have to turn on, but I use it all the time.

I had an iPhone for years and then switched to Android and now when I have to fix something on the kids' iPod I get totally lost. Mostly I keep trying to press a back button that's not there, or swipe down for the notification shade.


askye - Dec 09, 2014 2:28:34 pm PST #24204 of 25496
Thrive to spite them

I figured it out, I'm going to try the 4 finger thing. It's just weird and it's weird that there's no calculator. I got into an argument at work over whether or not it came with it and the guy pointed to the ipad and said "there it is!" I was like - yeah , because I downloaded it.

I may actually start using iTunes. I downloaded the first episode of The Librarians and watching it on the iPad was fine, but then I started thinking -it would be even better if I had an Apple Tv. Which I totally don't need.

I feel kind of weird trying to be the Apple person. I can learn stuff but I get stumped when customers come in and have an older Macbook and need some adapter for a connection we dont have and I have to run and figure out if they can do what they want.


§ ita § - Dec 10, 2014 12:57:27 pm PST #24205 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

My iPod has a calculator. How weird about the phone.

It's a good design too--portrait is a traditional accounting type calculator, landscape is scientific.


Jon B. - Dec 15, 2014 6:52:54 am PST #24206 of 25496
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!

-t - Dec 15, 2014 6:59:35 am PST #24207 of 25496
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

The iPhone comes with a calculator, I guess the iPad does not? I must have added one.


meara - Dec 15, 2014 9:41:35 am PST #24208 of 25496

Yeah, my iPhone has a calculator. I had downloaded a better one, which sadly doesn't seem to have updated appropriately for the iPhone 6 and had to delete it, but there is a basic one on there?


§ ita § - Dec 16, 2014 3:51:42 pm PST #24209 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Is anyone using Google Inbox? I just installed it today on a couple of accounts, and the email part is easy peasy (dismissing them is great), but the admin part stumps me on my phone's form factor.


amych - Dec 16, 2014 5:10:22 pm PST #24210 of 25496
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?

Is anyone using Google Inbox?

I tried it for a couple of weeks, and ended up switching back. It was great for the kind of email that I want to skim and delete quickly (delivery notifications and whatnot), but way worse for the things I actually wanted to read and respond to. I never even really bothered with it on the phone, since fast skim and delete is already my default mode there.


§ ita § - Dec 16, 2014 5:13:35 pm PST #24211 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I like the pin and reminder function, and now it's on my tablet on my fanfic account and my "official" account. I'm interested to see how a few weeks floats. But I do have to turn off the notification noises.

I feel like I'm not playing right because I don't have audio notifications for my email. Text me first!