[dba-Tech] [dba-OT] Now It's Firefox

Tina Norris Fields tinanfields at torchlake.com
Mon Sep 25 16:16:00 CDT 2006


Well, JC, you certainly have a good birthday - it's my husband Larry's 
birthday as well (and our wedding anniversary - he chose the date so 
he'd have no trouble remembering it).  He's older than you, but you'll 
get there someday.  <grin>
Tina


JWColby wrote:
>> ... you get a reminder that it's so and so's birthday coming up on August
>>     
> 30th. Right Donna? <grin>
>
> Mine is Nov 5th.  Put it in your Palm.
>
> I'll be 52 this year, and there will  be a world wide celebration as all my
> friends and acquaintances on AccessD stop to drink a pint.  Well... Actually
> most of them would stop to drink a pint anyway... ;-)  But now they have an
> official reason for doing so on that day.
>
> John W. Colby
> Colby Consulting
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Gary Kjos
> Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 11:12 AM
> To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] [dba-OT] Now It's Firefox
>
> I don't use the Palm for e-mail. My current one does do WIFI and bluetooth
> communications but I haven't actually tried it at either.
> For me it's being able to take my calendar with me to meetings and my
> contacts with me when I want to. Like a traveling rolodex. And it has the
> very same data as is on the computer files. And if I change it on the
> compute rit's cahnged on the palm and if I change it on the Palm it's
> changed on the computer.  With my previous two Palm devices I had keyboards
> that i could connect and it was essentially a very small laptop that could
> be used for notetaking although to tell the truth I really hardly ever used
> that feature. I carry my phone with me most of the time but I seldom get any
> calls on it as I don't really give out the number too much. It's a small one
> so it fits in my pocket. I also have a seperate camera in the same pocket.
> Don't like the cameras in the phones so I passed on that when I got my last
> phone. I like a REAL camera. The one I carry with me at all times is the
> size of an Altoids box. So I'm used to having things in my pocket. In my
> other pocket I have my keys, a foldup pair of reading glasses and a swiss
> army knife.
> I like having pockets and I USE my pockets.
>
> I used to use a Daytimer paper calendar. And I carried it with me
> everywhere. I used a small sized one and it was a big change for me to go
> electronic. The big kicker for me was the CONTACTS part of the Daytimer.
> Once a year or so I had to recopy all the contacts into a new paper book and
> that drove me crazy. I had crossed out numbers and names and smudged ink and
> at one point I vowed I would never go through recopying that address book
> again. And that was what got me to look at my first Palm device. And Using
> the Outlook Calendar has gotten me quite a lot of acclaim for remembering
> peoples birthdays and anniversaries because you set them up once and tell it
> it recurs every year and WALLA, you get a reminder that it's so and so's
> birthday coming up on August 30th. Right Donna? <grin>
>
> And my Palm also allows me to sync to multiple computers and that propegates
> all that stuff into the Outlook that lives on those other computers. Like my
> office computer and my home computer and my laptop computer. The Palm is the
> bridge between all those systems.
>
> And it plays a nice game of solitare if I am waiting for someone in a
> meeting room. Or Yahtzee. Or Monopoly. Or Chess.
>
> And it stays in my backpack when I don't need it. Just fine. As does my
> phone if I don't want it with me - pretty seldom as I view the cell phone as
> something I CALL OUT ON and not something that other people call me on.
>
> But whatever works for you works for you. What I have works for me.
>
> GK
>
> On 8/24/06, Rocky Smolin - Beach Access Software <bchacc at san.rr.com> wrote:
>   
>> Oh, BTW I don't use a Palm.  God willing I never will.  I don't like 
>> to carry my cell phone and when I don't 'accidentally' forget to take 
>> it with me, about half the time I 'forget' to turn it on.
>>
>> I hope to never have a blackberry.  I don't WANT to get my email 
>> anywhere I go.  I don't care about sports scores.  I don't care about 
>> the stock market from hour to hour.
>>
>> Guess I'm just a low tech guy.
>>
>>
>> Rocky
>>
>> Gary Kjos wrote:
>>     
>>> Ah the joys of not using Microsoft software. Curious as to why you 
>>> would use OE instead of regular Outlook?  You have Office licenses 
>>> right?  I use the calendar, the task lists, the contacts of course - 
>>> even for non-email contacts, the Notes have logs of all my golf 
>>> scores on them, in addition to the email functionality..... and it 
>>> all syncronizes with my Palm device so I can carry all that with me 
>>> wherever I go if I want to.
>>>
>>> GK
>>>
>>> On 8/24/06, Rocky Smolin - Beach Access Software <bchacc at san.rr.com>
>>>       
> wrote:
>   
>>>> First it was Thunderbird - can't send emails with attachments - 
>>>> times out.  Now it's Firefox - when I print something it comes out 
>>>> in a real tiny font.  Printed some boarding passes and they 
>>>> wouldn't scan at the gate because the bar code was too small.
>>>>
>>>> Hate to go back to OE and IE but that might be what has to happen.
>>>>
>>>> Anybody know why Firefox might print something real small?
>>>>
>>>> TIA
>>>>
>>>> Rocky
>>>>
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>>>> Beach Access Software
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>>>> www.e-z-mrp.com
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