Arthur Fuller
fuller.artful at gmail.com
Thu Oct 4 08:52:04 CDT 2012
I second William's conclusions about social media. After an initial interest, I soon removed myself from Facebook and its ilk. I still belong to LinkedIn but primarily to keep track of what my old friends and colleagues are doing job-wise. I have a cell phone, not a smart phone. My old cell does text but I have never sent a text message. I have however received a few texts but never responded. I did have a tablet, a beautiful Acer Iconia. I only had it for a week. I forgot it in a nearby cafe ,a five minute walk from home, and just as I was about to open the door I suddenly remembered that I'd left it there. I ran back, to no avail. It was gone. In the week I had it, though, I loved it. My friend Peter, who has the same one, helped me install some apps he's found useful. For me its principal virtues were as a replacement for books, especially technical books, and journals such as the New York Review of Books. He also made me aware of a pair of programs that enable you to work with dvd movies, first breaking them into chunks and then converting the chunks to MP4s, so you can watch the movie on the tablet. First movies I did that to were the three "The Girl Who..." movies, the original versions from Swedish TV (6 hours in all). It was really fun to watch them on the tablet! Since I got and lost my Acer, the Nexus 7 has been released. When I have enough spare change I may get one of those instead. Not sure. I liked the Acer a lot. A.