As I promised & I'm sure you guys have been anxiously waiting for
the wrap up of, honestly the best day I have ever had on this site since becoming a member. I was literally in tears 2 times today. I'm not going to mention everything, but only the high points as some topics had to be "cleaned up" so you might have missed all the action.
Actually, the cleanup was completely my fault.... I will PM you about it.
Treb Started this link, super funny, makes a gal laugh daily.
Unforgiven aka Pup is also a daily user.
Trent and xplosive seems to be the root masters and really know their stuff
AntimonyER, Rush, ravenas, alsaces daddy, nlsthzn, dawnierae and ajdroidx ~ pop in from time to time...
Two of the best posts ever in a forum thread! In all the years I've been haunting forums (and I visit many from Doctor Who to Disney World to my geeky worlds of computers). Never have I seen the activity summed up so well of who's Who and what's What. Thanks for the primer!
FWIW, I'm not as much an AF regular poster but more a lurker. I pop in to learn all I can about my latest gadget and why the blessed thing doesn't work as described. I'm too much a DIY-er to trundle off to some repair shop and pay a pimply-faced college kid to fix it for me. (Help and How-To is what the internet's for, right?) Leftover habits from my early 90's days when my big brothers and I were building our own desktop PCs from spare parts and playing with this whole home networking thing. (Ever try to run ethernet cable through a 1960's house and crack the attic floor? We did. I swear there's a stick with a hook lodged in the wall somewhere, lost when we got stuck around an AC vent.)
Sidenote: that's why the mere idea of the Apple "Genius" at the Apple Store makes me burst into condescending laughter.
Now that I'm on my Apple rant...
You mean when they all go bonkers for revolutionary new features that Android has had for two years?
Confession time. I shunned all mobile devices (yes even Android) until the summer of 2010 when the Apple Store at the mall seduced me with the 1st Gen iPad. What followed was about 8 months of Apple brainwashing and much gadget and app buying. As a first timer never-touched-a-smart-gadget device, Apple makes it incredibly easy and deceptively "cool".
But being a Windows girl and a DIY-er, I always had my eye on other OS's. When my prepaid carrier offered the first cheapie Android phones, I jumped on it. The LG Optimus was beyond crappy and limited and yet still did more than my much more expensive Apple toys. The love affair turned to disillusion.
It still floors me how people can acclaim iOS for having a better UI when it is just a Windows 3.11 app drawer. And I've spent many hours organizing my apps by page and folder. (I was even ecstatic to get the version of iOS that allowed folders.) The notification bar is a joke compared to Android. Retina display is useless to me without the full functionality of onscreen widgets. (Besides, I get much more eye candy from my aquarium live wallpaper.)
That's my schtick. I'm like one of those religious converts. Once you see the light you have a hard time accepting the darkness. Sorry if it offends anyone. I don't dislike the users; I just get so frustrated with the blind fanboyism I wanna scream.
And yet, I admit the "sexy" hype Apple exudes still gets to me at times. So nice to see Samsung generating it's own "sexy" campaign. (Props to Asus as well for giving off that cool gadget vibe.) Motorola and LG are just so utilitarian while HTC orbits its own world. (I feel like I'm on Pluto when I test out HTC Sense.)
Oh well, if you want the opinionated gadget-obsessed geek girl POV, I guess that's me. (Mind you, if I ever meet a 900 yr old timelord who can juryrig my mobile with some jiggerypokery for unlimited data and minutes through the time vortex, I'd be in nirvana.)
Back to your regularly scheduled madness...