@streakmachine that’s a big cup on the podcast
Anyone want a simple Office suite that works beautifully with MS Office files? Then try FreeOffice (a basic but still quite effective stripped-down version of SoftMaker Office).
Not to be confused with the free 30-day trial of SoftMaker Office, this ap is totally free. Go to https://www.freeoffice.com/en/ to sign up for the app.
After you sign in, they email you an actication number which you apply to any one of the three apps: TextMaker, Presentations or PlanMaker. The download for the Mac version is 154 MB. Versions are available to suit Windaws, Mac & Linux.
I’m rather impressed with it.
@nitinkhanna It’s all very well to bhave the Health app on iPhones, Apple Watch & the iPod Touch, but that’s stupid to leave it off the iPad.
Plenty of people use Android phones & other fitness trackers/smart watches other than the Apple Watch. Chances are these folk use Windows for computing & have an iPad as tbheir sole Apple toy.
@joeo10 An aunt of mine had scheduled her 100th birthday in her suburban home back in 2009 but a week before the show, she decided to do some pruning of the shrubs at the front of the house. She fell & fractured her upper arm, so we had the party in the hospital.
She never went home, recognising it was time to move into aged care. She instructed her son & grand-daughter to “do your internet stuff & sell my house” then moved into an aged care facility near her son’s home in the. national capital, Canberra some 700 km away.
Her first impression was unfavourable: she said “I don’t like it here. It’s full of old people.”
She was the oldest there in years, by a fair margain.
She survived a further three-and-a-half years.
// @indigo @joanna
Caught up with a cousin (Colin) I’ve not seen since his wife’s funeral in June of 2016. He was in the middle of an interstate trip from New South Wales to Hobart in Tasmania, where a member of his late wife’s family was being married.
He decided to drive rather than fly because it gave him the chance to reconnect with relatives here in Victoria on the way to his empty family home.
His is a very religious family, the four children all working in various Christian vocations in Australia & England. He & his late wife insisted that their kids should become established in a professionn before taking up their ministerial responsibilities.
Colin himself is a retired civil engineer and the most genuine & honest man I have ever met.
Towards the end of his working life his employer – a major municipal council in a big inland city area – was trying to sack him for various alleged irregularities & improprieties. Anyone who truly knew the man could tell this was a stitch-up and in the end, justice prevailed.
He was exonerated and then retired ASAP to take up voluntary work with his wife at the African Inland Mission in Kenya for 6 months of each year until his wife’s ill-health forced their return to Australia. She had open-heart surgery ASAP.
Then early in June of 2016, Colin phoned me at 8 am one Monday morning in great distress. Wendy (his wife) had been feeling a bit uneasy and lay down on the sofa in the loungeroom for a snooze and never woke up again. I asked him about funeral arrangements & said I’d be there for him & the rest of the mob.
So I drove there with my mother in tow & we stayed the Thursday night with her sister at another inland city a little over halfway there before continuing onto the funeral on the Friday morning. We headed back to Mum’s sister’s place that night then home again on Saturday.
@sumudu $99 is not for app, it’s for ongoing direct support.
The "benefits" of having a Pro account?
1: Having a direct email line to the CEO.2: Having a free one-hour online discussion with an app developer.3: Future access to developers at a "discounted" rate of USD$75 per hour.
Costs outweigh any benefits, not participating in that business model.
Shifty fuckers. Years ago I bought a Mac app, today the developer upgraded my account – allegedly at random – to Pro for one year without charge, with charging of USD$99 pa to commence Feb 28, 2020.
Only ever bought one app from them in 2011, now that app can be accessed via the Setapp subscription.
I have permanently deleted the account & any applicable software licences.
The "benefits" of having a Pro account?
1: Having a direct email line to the CEO.2: Having a free one-hour online discussion with an app developer.3: Future access to developers at a "discounted" rate of USD$75 per hour.
Costs outweigh any benefits, not participating in that business model.
Yay! Local ALDI is stocking Sapporo Premium beer at a reasonable price. That’s $6 for a 650 ml beer glass-shaped can. I love that brew.