I finally put the kindle app on my iPhone(that I've had for 3 months), realizing that if I'm stuck someplace waiting,(without my kindle) I can take up reading where I left off on the kindle. duh. anyone else have a "duh" moment like that recently?
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Duh yeah! I'm low-tech and prefer to read on paper, but I recently realized that I can always keep a magazine in my bag for handy reading when stuck in such situations as you describe. Better than having my magazines pile up unread at home. If I happen to finish the mag while I'm out, I can instantly declutter it, say, by leaving it in the doctor's waiting room or on the bus.
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i've been onto the iphone kindle app since april last year...i love always having a book at my fingertips....but it has taken me until last week to get the zinio app for iPad.
this is a magazine-reader app....I will subscribe to national geographic, nat geo traveler, and switch our dead tree sub to the economist over also.
so handy, I can hardly stand it!
and the magazines look lovely on the iPad.Posted 1 year ago # -
bandicoot - you can put a kindle app on your ipad as well. I love the larger size, and supposedly you can somehow sync them so you don't lose your place. I tried the app for my Oprah mag subscription, but it costs more that getting the paper copy! I can't decide if I like it or not. Since I have only the 16 gb iPad, I'd need to keep them moving....
We actually watched an episode of Masterpiece Theatre that we'd missed on the iPad the other night. Worked great, though it was a bit of togetherness with both of us trying to watch the little screen. LOL
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they do all sync...as long as you are in wifi or 3G range.
it's like magic!
yeah, we have watched things together on the iPad and it IS cozy :)Posted 1 year ago # -
Oh, good to know. I'm considering getting a kindle for DH for his birthday, but I'll have to run it by him - he's funny about things that way. He usually has several books going at once and I think this would be good for him, but ultimately he has to want it before I get it for him.
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Pkilmain-isn't that the truth though?
I've thought of what I reckoned were super great gift ideas, only to be shot down by a lukewarm response.it's always good to check it out first.Posted 1 year ago # -
another duh thing, I finally got around to syncing my google calendar online with my iPhone. what a huge help that will be.
I've also been keeping my grocery list on my phone. if I only really knew what this little gem could do....Posted 1 year ago # -
irishbell, my iphone is seldom more than a metre from me.
I can photograph a document and fax it to you....all from my iphone.
I can take a photo and email it directly to my flickr account....or my mother...or send it to evernote.
this is fabulous for recipes...business cards....contracts....photos of cats!in feb I stood outside a temple on a busy road in bali and recorded thirty seconds of bali life....then emailed it to the phone of a friend of mine who used to live in bali and misses it and loved hearing it "live".
in paris we used a great app that gps-ed us, then told us what fab things were how many metres away.
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oh yeah. Just last night in fact. I've had a huge problem with both spam and various newsletters that clutter up my inbox, and eventually the problem totally ran away from me and as I had a very full plate with other things I needed to prioritize, eventually I just gave up trying to control it on a day-to-day basis altogether...anyway to cut a long story short, I ended up with an email inbox that was over 10K full *gulp*
That, of course, was gonna be my next decluttering project lol. But with those kinds of numbers (and without a certainty that I could just toss out the whole damn thing, because I knew there were important things in there too), saying I was dreading this would be putting it very very mildly indeed: I was looking at not hours, but days or even *weeks* of moving emails one by one into the trash, or at best, multiple-selecting no more than a couple of dozen at a time (ie what fits in the inbox window of my email application) to fling into the trash. Just awful - and with nothing on the box right now, no hope of softening the boredom of the task.
Until it occurred to me to use the app's very effective search function to my advantage. Here's the thing: there may be TONS of these emails, but I realized that the bulk of them (in particular most of the ones I'd happily toss out) come from just a few specific sources. Not a VERY few, mind you - think a couple dozen, not half a dozen lol - but still: a MANAGEABLE number. So, all I had to do was think of a source, run a search for that, and then easily Select All on the emails that popped up in the viewer window and hit one little key:
D E L E T E ! ! *cue evil laugh*
So yeah. In half an hour's work, I cleared up a good 2000 emails. Compared to the way I'd been trying to do it before, that's about four times the speed :-)
**technical FYI: I am using the Mail application on a Mac. I can't tell you how effective the search feature is on other email clients, but really, I'd recommend trying this out to anyone who has a problem even remotely like mine :-)
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@ mili: hehe, i have had a similar idea that helped me a lot to get rid of some hundret emails: i sorted by SENDER and so could easily delete everything sent by... ebay, newsletter-sender no1, no2 etc. pp.
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@Mimi:
holy smokes you're right! I forgot about that! It's really good because it shows up all of the various senders one right after the other, so now I don't even have to try to recall them!thanks for the tip :-)
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