Fitness gadget - the Jawbone Up -
My experience with the Jawbone Up band for tracking activity, sleep and food.
Fiona MacDonald: Apple Store -
I was reminded this week of just what a pleasant experience it is to go to the Apple store. I went to buy a Jawbone Up fitness band, but decided it looked much more unwieldy than it looked in the photos.
Below it I noticed a product purporting to do the same thing, but I had never heard of it….
Loving the Apple retail experience!
I was reminded this week of just what a pleasant experience it is to go to the Apple store. I went to buy a Jawbone Up fitness band, but decided it looked much more unwieldy than it looked in the photos.
Below it I noticed a product purporting to do the same thing, but I had never heard of it. After whipping out my iPhone to google the item, I was approached by an Apple employee. I explained what had happened and he went into a very frank discussion about the Up, the Nike fuel band and this other product. He was actually wearing the Nike one and showed me the app it uses.
There was no hard sell and he was just friendly and helpful. I ended up buying the LarkLife band. It wasn’t for me though - way too big, bulky, bright and ugly! The reviews of the app were also poor.
Stuck it back in the box, printed off my Apple emailed receipt(!) and went back to a different Apple store. It was still a very pleasant experience. The only downer was I now didn’t have a cute little Apple bag to wander round the mall holding!
I love this station - got all my oldie faves!
Thank goodness this article tells you how to sort your news feed again - I hate how FB defaults to Top Stories. I want most recent ALL the time!
To change sort options you need to tap the gear icon next to the News Feed bookmark in the left-hand menu
Songza -
Tired of the same old music?
Can’t be bothered creating another playlist?
Songza app and website are the answer. Based on the time of day it will suggest types of music (house cleaning, wake up, love moods) and from there give you options on playlists to choose from.
Oh and IT’S FREE!!!
Been a while since I posted anything here. You get busy with something else and then you forget how you did the other thing - in this case posting to tumblr.
So the new iPad Mini is being released along with another updated iPad. I was all gungho about getting the mini when it was released and now I am not so enthusiastic. Don’t know if it is the price point $329 - seems a bit much for something that does almost everything my iPad2 does, just in a slightly smaller package. Now I am thinking I should give my Mum the iPad2 and that would almost justify me getting the new-new iPad (can we just call it iPad4 and be done with it already?!).
The question is will she really use it? Of course she will - I got her a new laptop last year and all she does is play Words With Friends with me on it! At the same time though, I am wondering about whether I really need the iPad4 - I mean how much better than the iPad2 is it really? Better pixels and faster and a dock connector that doesn’t fit anything. Oh decisions, decisions!
I probably will get the iPad4 in the end - like why not!?! My gadget fund is pretty full at the moment so why not spring some cash from it and get me a new toy. When I was young and poor these shopping decisions were so much easier - Want vs Need. Want usually wins these days, but I still find I have to ask the need question. Do I really need an iPad4? Course not. The problem is I also ask the want question too. Do I really want an iPad4? I don’t know to be honest.
The problem is I have gotton so used to Apple gadgets being revolutionary and now that they are just upgrades I am not so interested. Kind of like getting a new laptop - its still just a laptop - maybe a bit faster, lighter and with longer battery, but still just a laptop.
Patience, I know. But that spurt we got with Apple makes me want the future even faster now.
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My iPad1 works fine, not really worried.