Eletelphony
Dec. 26th, 2014 11:42 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thanateSo my old extremely stupid phone started mysteriously turning itself off some months ago, which in the context of a toddler and no home phone seemed like a problem. And while I wasn't really mentally ready for the smartphone age, I also didn't want to commit to another two years of stupid phone. Which has resulted in my acquisition of an iphone 5s, as this was the smallest (mostly) contract-funded option available through Credo Mobile. Without the case I got for it, it even stays in the back pocket of my jeans when I use the toilet. (with it, not so consistently. Boo.)
Grauwulf says that for someone who was so anti-smartphone I spend a lot of time looking at it. I said that was *why* I didn't want one: they're addictive little things, and I am generally supposed to be paying attention to the Megatherium, not my pocket-computer. (I have this thing in my pocket, and it's supposed to be interesting.)
I find that mostly what I do with a mini-computer 2000 times the size of my first laptop is check the weather constantly, and take pictures of my child. Now I have to figure out how to get those pictures back off the phone-- I am hoping that it'll play nice with my computer even though I deleted iphoto years ago for being stupid and annoying, but haven't tried yet.
So far my app acquisitions include a couple games, Merlin Bird ID (which plays bird sounds!), pinterest, a dictionary, a couple craft store coupon apps, a metronome/tuner, and vTree (tree id).
Have you the internets anything you use and love? Or do you know how to delete the stupid stock market app?
Things I think I want include something like the running from zombies game only without zombies and maybe running towards rather than away, a good recipe & shopping list app, or particularly good early learning (alphabet, numbers, suchlike) games for the Megatherium once she turns two. (we're still trying to avoid formal screen time until then, despite the difficulty of explaining to certain relatives that actually this child is ready for picture books but not movies without criticizing the way her cousins are being raised.)
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Grauwulf says that for someone who was so anti-smartphone I spend a lot of time looking at it. I said that was *why* I didn't want one: they're addictive little things, and I am generally supposed to be paying attention to the Megatherium, not my pocket-computer. (I have this thing in my pocket, and it's supposed to be interesting.)
I find that mostly what I do with a mini-computer 2000 times the size of my first laptop is check the weather constantly, and take pictures of my child. Now I have to figure out how to get those pictures back off the phone-- I am hoping that it'll play nice with my computer even though I deleted iphoto years ago for being stupid and annoying, but haven't tried yet.
So far my app acquisitions include a couple games, Merlin Bird ID (which plays bird sounds!), pinterest, a dictionary, a couple craft store coupon apps, a metronome/tuner, and vTree (tree id).
Have you the internets anything you use and love? Or do you know how to delete the stupid stock market app?
Things I think I want include something like the running from zombies game only without zombies and maybe running towards rather than away, a good recipe & shopping list app, or particularly good early learning (alphabet, numbers, suchlike) games for the Megatherium once she turns two. (we're still trying to avoid formal screen time until then, despite the difficulty of explaining to certain relatives that actually this child is ready for picture books but not movies without criticizing the way her cousins are being raised.)
Xposty from dreamwidth.