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Post by DADDY O on Jan 16, 2017 11:26:09 GMT
What are the best Apps you use on your Computer, Cell Phone or Ipad? I'll trickle these in as we go along.
One of the best Apps I have found, and have used it for several years is a password app by the name of RoboForm.
You can find it at www.roboform.com.
In today's Cyber World we are confronted with using hundreds of usernames and passwords. Who can, or even want to, remember all of these? With RoboForm you can enter one "Master Password" for secure sites and then simply go to the login menu, click on the app and if it is protected by your Master Password, give it the password (the same for all protected sites), and Voila...you are in. No need to remember usernames, URL locations, or passwords. If the site is NOT protected under your Master Password, then simply go to the login menu, click on the app, and Voila...you are in.
It is a great program that can be used (and synchronized) with all of your devices....computer, smart phone and Ipads.
I have used it for 5 or 6 years and it has never failed me, nor has the security of the data ever been an issue.
There is a small one-time only fee for the program (just once for all of your devices, not one fee for each device). Well worth the money.
Next time........we'll talk about "time", and how to manage and record it.
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Post by sherri on Jan 16, 2017 12:07:42 GMT
I'm behind the times. No smartphone, no ipad, though my husband has one.
No apps unless you could candy crush on Facebook.  Oh well, Lola & I like it.
If I did have a smartphone I think I would like the app that talks directions. I can get lost in a one way street. |
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Post by DADDY O on Jan 16, 2017 18:43:37 GMT
Well, if you have a computer, it will also work on that...............or are you one of those that uses the same userid and password for every site you go to?
I hope not........
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Post by granty on Jan 16, 2017 20:13:28 GMT
I've got this ap on my phone called 'trig solver'. With me being a fabricator, the metal has to go together square. And a few taps on the phone, and it gives you the exact dimension. Mind you, I still know how to do it the old way, long before we had mobile phones, and every apprentice I get, I show them the old way, and tell them, the Egyptians never had mobile phones. www.carbidedepot.com/formulas-trigright.asp |
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Post by sherri on Jan 16, 2017 20:23:45 GMT
Well, if you have a computer, it will also work on that...............or are you one of those that uses the same userid and password for every site you go to? I hope not........ DaddyO, I have a different password for almost every single site. So much so that I have a list which I constantly have to update and probably refer to almost daily. Sometimes I give the same password to similar sites. For example, I have 3 spare facebook accounts. About 6 friends and family have the password to those. But it is nothing like password to my real one. And I don't use anything people would ever guess either. 
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Post by DADDY O on Jan 16, 2017 21:12:56 GMT
Whatever. I was simply suggesting a program that would take care of you not having to look up or enter usernames and passwords every time you went to a site.
My appolgies.
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Post by sherri on Jan 16, 2017 22:49:32 GMT
Now don't get upset, I wasn't trying to imply the app wasn't any good. I'm sure it is. I think granty's app sounds excellent for him too.
I'm just not great with apps yet. I feel safer with paper.
Eventually I will have to get one of these smart phones and once I learn how to use the thing, I will probably start to get some apps. |
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Post by DADDY O on Jan 17, 2017 10:03:26 GMT
Not upset at all Sherri. Sooner or later we will drag you...screaming, yelling and clawing....into the 21st Century. |
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Post by DADDY O on Jan 17, 2017 10:28:14 GMT
Now then, it's about time that we talked about time. Has anyone seen the movie " About Time"? One of the best movies I have seen in a long time. Simply hilarious.....certainly Bill Nighy's greatest performance, IMHO. At first, I thought it was a British movie because everyone has a funny kind of accent.  Anyhow, I have found the older we get, the more we want to memorialize the time we have left. Thus, there are numerous Apps that can help us with that. I use " Private Diary". It not only is a diary of where you've been (including maps and GPS points), your verbiage of the event, but photo's as well. You can use it on your computer, smart phone and/or IPad and link them all together...............imagine that? Take a look and see what you think? What's all that Screaming I'm hearing? Oh................it's just Sherri trying to claw her way out. Sorry Sherri..............couldn't help myself. |
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Post by sherri on Jan 17, 2017 21:31:46 GMT
I can see the sense in a private diary, it can be interesting to look back on and sometimes it really solves the problem of exactly when something happened.
But what is striking me more and more these days is so many of us are turning to an almost total digital existence.
For example. People take too many photos. I'm not knocking it, I am a bit the same. But 60 years ago, people on a world trip might have taken 3 or 4 rolls of film, maybe 80 photos. 80 or 90 years ago people may not have even had a camera and only went to have a photo taken on special occasions. Now on a week's cruise, as lola will confirm, you can end up with 4000-7000 photos.
They all get stored in a file on your computer (or maybe an ipad or phone if you are a thoroughly modern person  ) but sooner or later we're all going to be interrupted by sickness, infirmity or death and what happens then?
This much I can guarantee. Just about everyone is interested in the 4 or 5 photos that still exist for great, great grandma & grandpa and their children. They still enjoy looking through things such as wedding albums from 40-60 years back, which may only contain a dozen pages at most. People like to look at the people, the fashions, what the streets and houses and shops looked like, the furniture, the cars they were in etc Not so interesting are the scenes such as waterfalls, unless the exact location is known and has changed a lot for comparison.
But when we are gone, will our children be interested in trawling through literally thousands of online photos or will a lot of them just be lost? If we keep an online diary with a secure password, I guess the diary will die with us and that may be what we prefer. But what if you didn't mind your children having it?
I think these are things people will need to start asking themselves, because passwords will need to be passed on. I may not be up with smartphones but all these questions have been going through my head as I do a lot of work on ancestry, adding photos, information etc. Whether my kids will be interested though I am not sure. A pity as who knows, their own grandchildren might be!
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Post by DADDY O on Jan 18, 2017 0:16:41 GMT
I can see the sense in a private diary, it can be interesting to look back on and sometimes it really solves the problem of exactly when something happened. But when we are gone, will our children be interested in trawling through literally thousands of online photos or will a lot of them just be lost? How many thousands of pages did you scrawl through on Ancestry.com to find one measly record of someone in your family? And....what did it mean to you when you did? I remember doing the same thing several years ago and stumbled on a ships log of a journey from New York City to England (South Hampton??. My father was in the military and was being transferred to Munich, Germany in 1952. I was four years old at the time and we sailed on the QEI. And there it was....a log that listed all of our names. Was it worth the hundreds of dollars paid to Ancestry.com and thousand of pages to shift through for one measly document with all of my families names on it? You bet your ass it was. Your ancestors will feel the same way. |
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Post by sherri on Jan 18, 2017 6:19:41 GMT
My worry is a lot will be lost online. A lot of people don't think they are going to die till it happens and may not pass on codes or even let their family know what they have stored online and where.
To me, my ancestry research has been worth it. My kids don't really think so, they aren't all that keen to even have a look. Maybe that is something that comes with age, that appreciation of the past. But then again, maybe not. My sister is quite interested in anything I find, but would never bother to do the research. She's just not 'that' keen.
Some of what we save online or in paper form-photos, documents-may be of interest to our children but I guess a lot will get thrown out.
Still, no use worrying too much, I guess.
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Post by DADDY O on Jan 18, 2017 9:41:01 GMT
Well, if you used RoboForm, you can print the entire record of the places that you have used. It keeps the username, URL, and the password safely. Then you always have a backup and only have to worry about one secure password to make everything work. |
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Post by DADDY O on Jan 18, 2017 11:15:21 GMT
Microsoft - I use MS Office, which includes (1) Outlook (email); (2) Word (word processing) (3) Excel (spreadsheets).......remember Lotus? What a pain in the ass that one was; (4) PowerPoint (Visual Displays for presentations); and (5) Publisher (finished documents, business cards, snappy printed presentations...etc.). I DO NOT upgrade it every time they come out with a "new and improved" version. I am still using MS Office 2010. It still does everything I need to do. Nor do I use.. OneNote or Access. The Outlook portion is the best of MS Office. As an email client, it is the best...IMHO. It automatically manages emails, stores them and then archives (puts them in another file) so your file does not get too big to use. I have every email sent to me or the ones that I sent since 1998 (except the ones I deleted....ads, news, and other crap. Nor do I use the online version of Office. Costs too much and I like keeping all of my files on my computer......not out in Tron-Land somewhere. |
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Post by sherri on Jan 18, 2017 21:39:16 GMT
I have a feeling the version of word on my computer is quite old now-yep, 2007. About the same age as my mobile phone. Part of my trouble is I like to hold onto things, I don't tend to replace till something wears out. It's got its good and bad points but means I am usually well behind the latest trends.  |
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Oh well, Lola & I like it.
) but sooner or later we're all going to be interrupted by sickness, infirmity or death and what happens then?