Touch screens and posting

[Paul Taylor]

My boss haned my a iPad to play around on. Right now to me it is nothing more than to me than a big iPhone without the phone.
And it is just as easy to screw up typing on this big screen as my little iPhone screen. And don't even get me stareted on the auto correct fuction. It sometimes throw up wrong words for you if you fat finger it and when you hit the space bar it drops the wrong word in or puts in a word if it does not know the acronym I'm using.

I'm not makeing excuses for my typing or spelling I can screw up a post by myself, I don't need any extra help!

I try and proof read before I hit the post button but a few always seem to slip past me. 

[john e. holliday]

Well, I blame all  my errors that get thru on this peice of electronic contraption called a keyboard.   Even after rereading a couple of times, stuff gets thru.   Where is the old Remington typewriter I learned on my sophmore year.   I did manage 60 words a minute the last week of the course. 

[Joe Just]

Doc, 60 wpm?  No big deal!  In June of 55 I was doing over 80wpm. however if you took out all the errors it was closer to 24. My oldest was here two weeks ago and showed me a new system he has that all you have to do is speak and it is written on the screen and ready to send.  I tok one look and changed the subject.  To much, too late, too pricey I guess. I still leave the most personal stuff to a handwriten note on rag content paper. Try that phrase on somebody young if you want to see a look of total missunderstanding.   
Joe

[Paul Smith]

My first typewriter...

[Joe Just]

Yep, a Lineotype ! Another item of the past.  Boy, what a racket they made!
Joe

[Sean McEntee]

I love my iPad.  In addition to all the standard stuff i.e. email, games, movies, videos, ect, I use for lots of other stuff.  I have a ton of Army Training Manuals and Field manuals, as well as all of my UAV manuals, publications, and texts on it.  I have an app that has all of the most commonly used forms, such as leave forms, counseling forms, ect, and I spend allot of time on it doing that kind of thing.  We have only one computer at the moment between 7 NCOs, so I can get things done allot quicker with it.  I use it for note taking, tracking my soldiers medical appointments as well as other important dates, and storing information by taking pictures of important papers rather than having hard copies.  Then when I get home and my iPad, iPhone, and my computer are all under in range of my wireless network, they sync with each other, providing double redundancy.  I use it when driving long distances to calcuate average speed and ETA.  I have apps that show the location of every truck stop and rest stop along the interstate.  I even have a balsa density calculator on it

[George]

Yep, a Lineotype ! Another item of the past.  Boy, what a racket they made!
Joe

My first job after high school was as a pressman in a small printing shop. One of my tasks was to remelt the used type into big bars of lead. 

George

[Mike Keville]

I love my iPad . . . 

What's an iPad?  (says a certified Old Fart)

[Paul Taylor]

Mike
If you know what a iPhone is --just think of one the about the size of a sheet of 8x10 paper.
Google it.