@sgb101
Forum Replies Created
-
AuthorPosts
-
Longer hospital trips are always a pain due to the fact they are 1. Stressful enough, and 2. You don’t get to relax until you get back home / the local hotel.
When you add children into the mix or worse disabled, it could all make for a long stressful day.
I’ve never bothered updating my milage allowance. I always predict 10k and do a tad more but in close to the average. Though the spain drives add a fair chunk at about 3.5 to 4k a trip.
I spent a couple of months I’m Norway myself. Cross country skiing is so so hard. I was fit then, and id be blowing out my hoop and over heating withing minutes.
We all had to do the freezing ice hole dip to, which was far easier than tv led me to believe. Iir as a kid blue peter done it, and made out it was the worst thing ever. It’s wasnt. It would be if you hung around mind.
I don’t know how they can afford to be big drinkers. In 99 it was over a fiver a pint. I’m sire its over £11 now! And i moan cos the village pub is £3.90.
My friend just had a stop over I’m Dubai airport. He said the only place you can smoke is I’m the pub I’m the airport, and to smoke you must by a drink. The cheapest drink was a pint at £25.
He said it was the dearest smoke he ever had. He had not long some up, and forced the pint down out of principle.
You know spelling isn’t quite my thing.
I seen from another thread it’s for your dad, or g-dad. Glympse also has a secondary app, (or did it may be built in to the main app now), that let’s you but a ‘button’ on the home screen that your dad can just press and select the phone number to send it to. Much simpler to use for the none tech folk than the more feature rich main app.
So if he gets into trouble its all simple to fire you his location.
I’ll try and look it up, and report back.
Update
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.glympse.android.glympseexpress
There is also a glympse auto, will have to check that out.
Ues there is work around, but we are both entrenched now. It’s not that bad as we share calendars. Etc easy enough.
Well as the wife isn’t tech oriented, i set up the shares on her account, so all she has to do is log in, And it share with me. As from my end i have to select her account when i add to it. If we done this the other way round, she forgets to select the 3rd party calendar. So i learnt fast i have to give her the least steps possible, other wise it all breaks down.
I let her hold the tv remote once. It didn’t end well. ?
There is a menu in there somewhere to merge contacts . years ago when android was new, you ended up with lots of duplicates etc. That was to do with the way htc sense and Samsung touch wiz handled contacts slightly different to Gmail.
Though i really it took only about ten mins to sort it out on a PC.
Make sure you have your phone set to sync contacts checked. Or use this as am opportunity to reset your phone and clean not out. It will then by default sync your contacts as soon as you log in.
I missed this one.
True callers default is to call the primary number when you select a contact name, or long press to open the contacts to see the same options you discrine. In the settings you can set it to open contact on a press. I always have it set that way. As i was constantly calling people by mistake.
Though I’m glad you found a dialer that suits you. That’s the joy of android choice.
I just had a thought, some phones default to save to phone. Iirc samsungs do this. The wife’s p9 defaults the calendar to save to phone which had often caught us out, considering we share a calander! So you need toake sure when you put your next number I’m your phone that it say ‘save to xxxxx.Gmail.com’ instead of ‘save to phone’
Also you need to make sure in the maim android settings menu that you have contact sync on. It is on by default but you said you have been messing with the options. I have all the google sunc stuff checked. Contacts, calendar, photo, tasks etc.
Probably cos the British armed forces get the bare minimum tools and kit, and what they do get is usually not up to the job. Given the engineers need a lot of kit regularly i suppose they get a lot of begging practice.
We soon found out commando actually meant we cant afford transport.
Contacts.google.com should do it.
The easiest way, bar the direct link, is open Gmail (mail.google.com), then towards the left top, there is a button the say ‘Gmail↓’ if you tap that, you get the contacts option. Click that and you there.
Last month i was picking my lad up from the airport. I googled the flight number (it use to use to show google now bit sadly no more, for me at least) bit what i did get was a page that, shown when the flight took off, that it was on time, (well 15mins early), its altitude, speed, and a live map view of its current location
Amazing times we live, but my first thought was about security.
One app i absolutely love for giving others directions to me or vice verse is glimpse. It’s a little gem, for when you need to meet up with some some one match day, night out (very usefull for groups), or any clouded place.
You can set a te limit too, so i could great bob access to my location for x amount of minutes, so you can make tour way to me, and i can keep wandering, and not will track me in real time. The time limits good as you dont want it on 24/7. Google maps does something similar, but climes give you finer control. Anther staple on my phone.
The recipient doesn’t need the app, you location shows up on google maps for them. Though if both partied has the app, its better.
I’ve just book a month in Spain and France this summer, i do have road maps of both countries, both over 10 years old, but ill be using nokias here maps, (dont need data) and tomtoms speed camera and speed limit overlay app, to navigate the continent safely. I prefer google maps, but last time i put Here on my Hudle, as i didn’t want to use my phone, and the 8″ display made a cracking satnav. I stuck two bobs of blue tac behind the gear lever, to sit it on and its own weight kept it in place.
You sit low down in my car so being next to the gear knob is fine, it wouldn’t work in a mpv or 4×4, but you can get tablet car holders. Great sat nav experience.
So yes bob the internet is great. Especially for the elderly or disabled. If you don’t want to or cant leave the home often, you can now easily get by and lead a sort of normal life.
You couldn’t do that just 10 years ago. The net has gone form a geeks play thing, to an essential bit of kit.
Bob you can share both photo albums to each other from with on the goole photo app.
Open app, open the side menu (top left, 3 lines), there to will see add partner account. I’ve not used it, but imagine when she accepts it will merge photo libraries. Or least show them merged, until you digitally divorce.
For years all my kids had my account om their devices so they had access to apps i bought. Now google had google family, where you can nominate 5 family members to share apps with. It’s good as on y 9 yo account because she is below 18, when she wants to buy an app etc, i get a notification and i have to ok it.
The only issue is, my family is 7, so one doesn’t make it into my google family. Lol. It’s the wife. She can by her own stuff.
That’s basically what I said ED. But I don’t get how brexit or trump (for example ) gamed the system.
All they got was lists of people that fit the the demo they was after .just to target them with campaign adds. Basically they got to see where best to spend their energy.
You yourself could do something very similar right now with FB own add tools. Tho what cambridge analicts done seems to be scrapped FB for more info than FB makes public, but all they (trump brexit) could of got out of it, is a more acreate picture of where to spend energy, at a lower cost to ill presume.
The original 1+1 team famously said there marking for the plus1 was about £200 of target fb adds to geeks, they let the geeks market the device for free. Same concept.
It seems FB is in more trouble today, they seem to of been storing all calls and SMS texts of users that use the FB messaging app as there default msg app.
I’d imagine millions of people do use the FB app in that way, so they will have a gold mine to search. Though I dont know if its full body text or just metadata. I’m not that interested in FB it look too closely.
I would like to see some more investigation work into how encrypted and secure Whats app really is. I use that often because of its claimed privacy and ease of use. There is more secure way to text, bit they usually involve set up. I cant be arsed or even want to walk a client or someone through it. So WA is a good privacy vs ease option. Or I thought it was. But now im not to sure.
Contacts are not backed up in the same way android back ups are. Your contacts are simple syncd to your Gmail account/contacts. So check there. If I have a few contacts to fill in, ill usually do them on a PC, in Gmail, as its quicker than doing it on the phone.
I’ve used google contacts since before android, and never had an issue with lost numbers. Quite the opposite in fact it is great at merging duplicates atc.. I get quite annoyed with people that routinely asked for my number cos the lost their phone.
It’s takes more effort to not cloud save ones contacts. Long gone are the days when id get my wife to input all my contacts to my newest phone. Just sign in an they appear.
We use to have a 3rd party service that would keep mine and the wife’s contacts in sync. That was a great bit of kit. But sadly they went out of business about 7 years ago.
I don’t think android natively backs up call lists and SMS messages, but there are many apps for that. I like push bullet for it, as it separates your messages out by what phone you had when you sent it. But many stands alone apps like evolve SMS has a backup feature built in, that you can set to upload when you wish. Most back up apps, use google drive to store the backups, so you may as well just use any built in android backups, as it gets stored in the same place anyhow.
You can usually open the backups to inspect as they are in some language the app understands and or encrypted. But many apps just send an excel style spreadsheet in plain text. I’d always opted for the encrypted service.
When you talk of data, all apps and the os give you the option to sync on wifi only.
I always set mine to wifi only AND only when charging. You don’t want to disable any google or even any app updates, as the majority are bug and security fixes to apps. By not updating your apps your making your device less secure or less stable.
Didn’t know Grey played for wolves. Though I was just being born about then.
There should be some rule brought in by Fifa that you need to start 4 or 5 nationals in all top flight games. Probably some law that stops this type of positive discrimination. But would be good for all nations I think.
The old mother maiden name, first pet, school etc.. All can be found out on social media in moment by ant one.
Always use a long password and turn two factor authentication on. And use a password manager.
I have no issue eitj being used as a statistic. The issue always is, who may getvaccess to all that data I’m the future. Ie a far right gov brit would be my no1 concern. I don’t care one bit if Russia or china etc have my data, its my own gov that would possibly effect (maybe be I shouldnt write this I’m public then lol)
Not a dig at UK gov, if I was russian, US or even Tongan, it would be my gov id be most scare about.
Now when Russian invades us, I’ll start worrying about them. But the data will likely be the least of our worries. (To begin with at least).
I use one of the cheaper Phillips shavers with the adjustable guards. It’s more like a small hair trimmer than saver. Not had a wet shave in about 5 years.
I grow a beard from october to march every uear then match to octobwr, give my face a number 2 grade about every 4 days.
If I have a meeting or something important. I’ll give myself the number 2 cut, then get the cut throat out to clean the edges up.
I get dry skin from soaps etc, so wet shaving gives me a rash, as a 16 recruit I was made to wet shave every morning, even though I couldn’t grow w hair on my face back then. I could probably of got away with a 6 month shave!
The traditional ‘3 circle’ electric shavers would irritate me too.
I’m now set to have hair om y face forever. If I didn’t have the wife moaning oct to match, id have a full beard all the time.
I shaved my winter beard off last week, but to wind the wife off I left the muzzie on for 2 extra days. Real handle bar job, she was refusing to leave the house with me. Lol, should of kept it.
Lol Bob, I fell sleep watching Liverpool beat man u in Cardiff . one to many on the coach down there.
Of guess you lenovo s slot only does data (3 or 4g). I doubt it would have a normal sim function (phone number etc.) That is needed for WA. You would just buy (or sub) to a data only sim.gift gaff do them cheap, but umless you know need one, you don’t need one. (If that make sense).
If you install push bullet on your phone and tablet, that would give the tablet access to your text messages. Also its great for ‘pushing’ or ‘pulling’ files out of all your connected devices. It’s a great bit of software. One of my staples.
BL my girl has a wifi only tablet, she is 9, so she makes every one out hangouts on there phones, so she can get hold of everyone, text and phone. When im away, I get 100s of messages a day off her. Mostly girly type stickers, of emojis blowing kisses, or handing out roses.
It was cute the first 10 times…. And you can’t say to a 9 year old girl stop sending me all this crap lol. Love her really.
I have a good handfull of msg apps, as I have a load of different groups of people that use different apps to communicate. What would be nice is an old style aim messengers (i think that was its name) where you have one app but log into all your messaging apps via it. Making message management so much cleaner. One app to rule them all.
If apple would of cross platformed I message in the early days as bbs was dying. Apples I message would be the one and only service we would be texting on now. They missed a huge boat there. All they would of had to do is make the android one work, bit not as well as on iOS, and it would of drove many more iPhone sales .
What always makes laugh is the hatred, or fear, of google etc.. But are very happy when pampers send out their ‘bounty’ packs, when they are pregnant.
No one bothered to wonder ‘how did they know’.
Now you older lot will know this, but if you ever have bowel issue, and you need a bag, all of a sudden you get a load of free sample bags for a number of companies. Same with crutches if you have issues etc..
My wife gets them all. The NHS apparently don’t share when you no longer need the bags, to the relevant companies.
The big difference between google and the NHS is, google sell you as a statistic, the NHS simply sells YOU the person. Your name, address, age and medical conditions. At least google and FB sell stats and averages.
So when people complain about google etc, I can’t help thinking that ship sales 50 years ago. It’s just that everyone love free nappies and baby milk, they never noticed.
-
AuthorPosts