Well, I've decided I hate iPhones now. So much wasted time trying uselessly just to get an email attachment on my dad's iphone onto his laptop. It was pretty easy with an Android phone, basically impossible on an iPhone.
EDIT: As a caveat, this needs to happen without the laptop having any sort of network connection.
That's why I'm sticking with Blackberry, they're great for checking your email and attachments, and generally keeping up with work-related stuff. I am thinking about getting an ipod touch just so I can play Angry Birds anywhere, though.
Well, I've decided I hate iPhones now. So much wasted time trying uselessly just to get an email attachment on my dad's iphone onto his laptop. It was pretty easy with an Android phone, basically impossible on an iPhone.
EDIT: As a caveat, this needs to happen without the laptop having any sort of network connection.
What's the attachment? If you have a corresponding app that can read the file, you can usually send the attachment there, then copy the file to the computer via iTunes' File Sharing feature. Certainly a network connection would be easier since you could just, you know, check the email on the computer, but it shouldn't be too difficult to get this done. Just need more info!
Whenever I have an Apple question, I call or text Mario. True story.
Also, as I am still in school, I still greatly enjoy summer and the lack of homework. Although, I have to say... this summer is the first summer I haven't taken a summer course since I started college, and I greatly enjoy it. It's going to be extra hard to start up the fall semester again.
So very bored today, so I re-read this entire thread.
I'm getting a sense that we're depraved animals, for every time Lauren makes a post we inevitably try to encourage lesbianism or nudity and pictorial evidence thereof.
I'm pretty sure I haven't encouraged such things at all.
RE: iPhone. My dad is in middle-of-nowhere South Dakota this week. He has to climb a nearby hill (possibly on the back of a horse) to so much as get cell phone reception there. The idea is that he gets up on the hill, downloads his emails to his phone, goes back to camp and transfers the pdf files attached to his emails onto his laptop via cable. He can view pdf files on his phone, but saving them is not an option and the phone is too small to comfortably work off of. Internet searches yield nothing but responses saying to view the email from the laptop, because it's not possible to transfer the attached file off the phone in this way. He's not very computer literate, so I needed a method that was very easy to do. Ultimately my mom's Droid 2 was able to save attachments in a generic and easy fashion and copied over without much difficulty, so I settled on having him go through that way.
Odds are though he won't need to do this at all anyway. He is technically on vacation. They'll probably just wait until he gets back to bother him anyway.
Okay, it's time for me to rock you and your dad's worlds.
Download the iBooks app (it's free, but there are other PDF-capable iPhone apps out there if you prefer). Now when you view a PDF in the Mail app, there will be an "Open in iBooks" option (the arrow button in the upper-right corner; screenshot attached for reference). Do this and the PDF will be transferred onto your bookshelf. When you plug the phone into your computer and open iTunes, enable syncing of books (click the iPhone under Devices in your sidebar, then click the Books tab). From now on, every PDF you download into iBooks will automatically sync to the Books section of iTunes, at which point you can copy the PDF anywhere you want on your computer (or leave it there for convenient organization if, you know, it's actually a book).
If you decide to use some sort of dedicated PDF organizer app, you can also copy the file directly to the computer without syncing to your iTunes library in the Apps tab of iTunes under File Sharing. Some apps may even support Wi-Fi document-syncing so you can avoid the entire plug-in process; search for "PDF" in the App Store and see if anything catches your interest. But the process I've described works smoothly.
So once this is all set up, this will be the workflow for your dad (I know my tech-unsavvy family members appreciate simple instruction lists):
-view PDF in Mail
-tap send button, tap Open in "iBooks"
-plug into iTunes, PDF auto-syncs to Books
Indeed that's roughly how it works in android. Except you don't need an app for it. You don't do any syncing though. You just plug in the phone and copy the files off. Which is maybe simpler? My dad barely understands what iTunes actually is and given the option he would never use it. If I had things syncing into iTunes for him I'd have to teach him how to use it. Which would not be an easy matter for either of us.
This is basically the same process, you're just using iTunes instead of Windows Explorer to interface with the files. I was assuming that the iPhone was already set to sync things with iTunes (music, photos, contacts, calendars, etc.) which made these instructions a simple extension from existing processes. My other assumption was that using app interfaces (Mail, iBooks, then iTunes on the computer) would be easier for a computer novice than dealing with file directories.
But if you set things up in the manner I described, he wouldn't HAVE to use iTunes beyond the automatic sync, since the files would then be downloaded to the computer. He could then retrieve the files at [home]/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Books. You could even make a shortcut on his desktop for easy access. Then the process would be:
-view PDF in Mail
-tap send button, tap Open in "iBooks"
-plug into iTunes, PDF auto-syncs to Books
-open Books folder, retrieve PDF and move/copy to desired folder
I can make a shortcut to get files off an Android phone too. The process you described is virtually the same all the way through for an android. View pdf, press menu, press save, plug into computer, open shortcut to view pdf files on phone. He just ends up printing them out on paper anyway so that's all it takes.
It's good to know I can get it working on his iPhone too though, so thanks for the input on that. Now I can let him use his own phone proper.
Probably Trogdor. It could well be that Walter being on fire sometimes is also a Trogdor-related issue. It's hard to say for sure when the evidence keeps burning up.
I haven't personally seen any of the flames, but Greg said he could from his work the other day. Also, the whole city was covered in smoke for a couple hours two days ago. I opened the door in the morning and could smell the fire. It's awful.
I sincerely hate weeks in school when I have 3 exams. They don't happen very often, but when they do, I almost always end up failing at least one of the tests. In this week's case, I completely bombed three for three! AND I studied my ass off, for all of them!
What a waste. I could have spent all my time sleeping this week and no time studying, and I feel like if I had I would have made about the same grades in those classes. What really boggles my mind is how I spent hours upon hours honestly going over the exam material, and I somehow missed about half of the material for each test, if not more. I seriously don't even understand how that's possible.
I'm a mess guys. I used to think I was intelligent when I was younger. I think college and all of its glory has turned my brain against me. Too much alcohol and party drugs.
Plus, you get to look forward to the job search after you graduate. I've been looking pretty much non stop since May and I haven't gotten anything more than an automated e-mail saying they got my application.
Esmé only decided to fall asleep an hour ago after waking at 5am and refusing to nap this afternoon. It is almost 1am, she has been pulling this shit for a few days now.
Carving the pumpkin: "Urrgh, how does one gourd have so many seeds in it?"
Roasting/eating the seeds: "Urrgh, how does one gourd have so few seeds in it?"
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EDIT: As a caveat, this needs to happen without the laptop having any sort of network connection.
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What's the attachment? If you have a corresponding app that can read the file, you can usually send the attachment there, then copy the file to the computer via iTunes' File Sharing feature. Certainly a network connection would be easier since you could just, you know, check the email on the computer, but it shouldn't be too difficult to get this done. Just need more info!
Also, as I am still in school, I still greatly enjoy summer and the lack of homework. Although, I have to say... this summer is the first summer I haven't taken a summer course since I started college, and I greatly enjoy it. It's going to be extra hard to start up the fall semester again.
I'm getting a sense that we're depraved animals, for every time Lauren makes a post we inevitably try to encourage lesbianism or nudity and pictorial evidence thereof.
RE: iPhone. My dad is in middle-of-nowhere South Dakota this week. He has to climb a nearby hill (possibly on the back of a horse) to so much as get cell phone reception there. The idea is that he gets up on the hill, downloads his emails to his phone, goes back to camp and transfers the pdf files attached to his emails onto his laptop via cable. He can view pdf files on his phone, but saving them is not an option and the phone is too small to comfortably work off of. Internet searches yield nothing but responses saying to view the email from the laptop, because it's not possible to transfer the attached file off the phone in this way. He's not very computer literate, so I needed a method that was very easy to do. Ultimately my mom's Droid 2 was able to save attachments in a generic and easy fashion and copied over without much difficulty, so I settled on having him go through that way.
Odds are though he won't need to do this at all anyway. He is technically on vacation. They'll probably just wait until he gets back to bother him anyway.
Download the iBooks app (it's free, but there are other PDF-capable iPhone apps out there if you prefer). Now when you view a PDF in the Mail app, there will be an "Open in iBooks" option (the arrow button in the upper-right corner; screenshot attached for reference). Do this and the PDF will be transferred onto your bookshelf. When you plug the phone into your computer and open iTunes, enable syncing of books (click the iPhone under Devices in your sidebar, then click the Books tab). From now on, every PDF you download into iBooks will automatically sync to the Books section of iTunes, at which point you can copy the PDF anywhere you want on your computer (or leave it there for convenient organization if, you know, it's actually a book).
If you decide to use some sort of dedicated PDF organizer app, you can also copy the file directly to the computer without syncing to your iTunes library in the Apps tab of iTunes under File Sharing. Some apps may even support Wi-Fi document-syncing so you can avoid the entire plug-in process; search for "PDF" in the App Store and see if anything catches your interest. But the process I've described works smoothly.
So once this is all set up, this will be the workflow for your dad (I know my tech-unsavvy family members appreciate simple instruction lists):
-view PDF in Mail
-tap send button, tap Open in "iBooks"
-plug into iTunes, PDF auto-syncs to Books
Let me know how that works!
But if you set things up in the manner I described, he wouldn't HAVE to use iTunes beyond the automatic sync, since the files would then be downloaded to the computer. He could then retrieve the files at [home]/Music/iTunes/iTunes Media/Books. You could even make a shortcut on his desktop for easy access. Then the process would be:
-view PDF in Mail
-tap send button, tap Open in "iBooks"
-plug into iTunes, PDF auto-syncs to Books
-open Books folder, retrieve PDF and move/copy to desired folder
It's good to know I can get it working on his iPhone too though, so thanks for the input on that. Now I can let him use his own phone proper.
Hopefully your house remains unburninated.
I haven't personally seen any of the flames, but Greg said he could from his work the other day. Also, the whole city was covered in smoke for a couple hours two days ago. I opened the door in the morning and could smell the fire. It's awful.
Good luck staying safe.
What a waste. I could have spent all my time sleeping this week and no time studying, and I feel like if I had I would have made about the same grades in those classes. What really boggles my mind is how I spent hours upon hours honestly going over the exam material, and I somehow missed about half of the material for each test, if not more. I seriously don't even understand how that's possible.
I'm a mess guys. I used to think I was intelligent when I was younger. I think college and all of its glory has turned my brain against me. Too much alcohol and party drugs.
I must be doing something wrong.
Roasting/eating the seeds: "Urrgh, how does one gourd have so few seeds in it?"