From: erilar on
In article <87k9jsFo8hU1(a)mid.individual.net>,
"tim...." <tims_new_home(a)yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> why do you need an app?

It's an iPad.

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Erilar, biblioholic medievalist


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From: erilar on
In article <1jk1m9u.13u9z94do5ia7N%d4g4h4(a)yahoo.co.uk>,
d4g4h4(a)yahoo.co.uk (David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*)) wrote:

> I use an app for BBC news which is useful as it downloads news stories
> so you can read them online.

I discovered I can also read whatever was on it while on line stays
there when it's out of wi-fi space.

--
Erilar, biblioholic medievalist


http://www.mosaictelecom.com/~erilarlo
From: erilar on
In article <1jk1105.dmmv3tqx1utcN%d4g4h4(a)yahoo.co.uk>,
d4g4h4(a)yahoo.co.uk (David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*)) wrote:

> The iPad is a pretty useless device for most news video content though.

But I have this old-fashioned habit of preferring to READ my news rather
than watch little videos anyway 8-)

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Erilar, biblioholic medievalist


http://www.mosaictelecom.com/~erilarlo
From: EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) on


Brian wrote:
> On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 17:01:02 +0100, Donwill
> <Donwill.seesig(a)invalid.invalid> wrote:
>
>
>> It's been taken over and ruined by American Nutters with bees in their
>> bonnets.
>> Don
>
> How does that prevent others from posting travel topics?

It doesn't, entirely - but it becomes very tedious to have to scroll to
"Next unread message", then "Mark thread read" for all the irritating
cross-posts, and my browser doesn't offer an option to simply kill-file
all the off-topic newsgroups
From: erilar on
In article <hv25m0$h91$2(a)news.eternal-september.org>,
Martin <martin(a)invalid.invalid> wrote:

> Why not use your PC?

I don't have one if you're using that term in its modern limited sense,
as I suppose you probably are. Nowadays it just means M$-enslaved to
those of us with other systems 8-) I have three sizes/generations of
computers and none uses that _________

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Erilar, biblioholic medievalist


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