How do YOU access vacuum land?

[szymonrules]

Hey guys I just wanted to ask, how do you access vacuum land? I'm asking because in this digital age, I know that many of us use iPhones, iPads, desktops, and/or laptops as a daily device and not to add fire to fire, but a good amount of us are either making grammatical mistakes or text lingo on here! To be honest though, I'm just asking because of my interest with what people use in their homes! I actually use an iPhone, iPad or my laptop! Anyway, answer away!

 

[kirbyultimateg]

I use a desktop PC and a smartphone.

 

[ned_flanders]

With my iVac of course...jk. Desktop and laptop computers for me.

 

[dysondestijl]

iPod and laptop, occasionally PC

 

[ultimatevacman]

Although I have an Iphone, I prefer typing and reading on a bigger screen, so I'm usually on my Laptop/Notebook.

 

[dysondestijl]

Ooh and smartphone

 

[vinvac]

I use all of the above!

My I-Phone, I-Pad, I-Mac and here at work I use a PC. Prior to my I-Phone I used a smart phone.

Grammatical issues don't concern me at all. I realize many of use are typing on the fly or using devices that are not as easy to type on. I don't have time to spell check when I am at work, my phone will make corrections that I miss, and spell check will often change words.

Text type comments are not offensive. Again, knowing that many of us are using portable devices and running on the fly.

As long as what is being posted is understandable and not being mean spirited...I am fine with it.

Morgan
President of the VCCC

 

[nubz3760]

I use my desktop or my Samsung Galaxy S3

 

[beko1987]

Nexus 7 mainly, or work laptop and galaxy s2 if I'm out and about.

I make big picture heavy posts off our laptop, which the Mrs uses now I have the nexus.

Typing this on the nexus now!

 

[kirbylux77]

Well, I post using my old Dell Pentium 4 desktop, which unfortunately is getting too outdated & a pain to use . Or, if I am on the go, I'll use my new ASUS Core i7 quad-core laptop....best $900 bucks I ever spent! Not a fan of using tablets or smartphones at all....those touchscreens would get REALLY annoying after a couple of months.

Rob

 

[suckolux]

Laptop

 

[djtaylor]

I use my Mac Mini desk-top and log in through Firefox. When I misspell something on this forum it is underlined, but I don't know how to fix it when that happens. I freely admit that I am not a great speller, my grammer is sometimes off and since my heart problems started I get muddled and have trouble saying (or typing) what I mean to say.
I guess that's TMI (Too Much Information), if so... I'm sorry.
Justin

 

[caligula]

The old stick in the mud here.

My desktop computer.

I don't text, tweet, and so on, doubt if I ever will.

Alex Taber.

 

[vinvac]

<span style="font-size: large;">Justin,</span>


 


<span style="font-size: large;">Thanks for sharing and it makes my point even more valid.</span>


 


<span style="font-size: large;">Some folks here are far to critical and think they have to parent everyone and everything that happens here.   Every situation is different.  In your case a medical condition may prevent you from normal activities.  For me, I would much rather read one or two lines of text and move forward.  Some of what is written is page after page...get to point...tell the story and move on.  I don't have time to read a book. </span>


 


<span style="font-size: large;">Unless something is totally disrespectful or breaks the forum guidelines, myself and the board are not going to complain.  We all need to be respectful of everyone who posts on Vacuumland.   Adults as well as children, members as well as visitors to this site.</span>


 


<span style="font-size: large;">As Terry Lattz would say "why is it so hard to read something and move on, why does everyone think they need to comment on everything, why is spelling, sentence structure such a big deal...I retired from teaching and I am not grading papers anymore!"  "Why is it so hard to let others have a conversation that is different from ours, read it move on"  If Terry told me this once he told me a hundred times...</span>


 


<span style="font-size: medium;">Perhaps because I work with the public, I see all types of problems everyday, the small stuff is not going to get me down.  I live my life as I think I would want to be treated by others...I wish we could all do the same and stop being to judgmental.</span>


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[floor-a-matic]

<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">When I'm at home I use my Dell Desktop PC; when I'm on the go I use my Samsung Galaxy 3G (Boost Mobile)</span>

 

[MikeKLondon]

Desk Top / IPad

If I have time and I'm at home I still like my desk top best but sometimes take a quick look on my IPad, I'm dyslexic and my desk top makes it easy for me to check spelling ect. I dont often use my laptop anymore.

Vinvac. Many Thanks for posting reply 13, in the past I have had e-mails over a grammatical error.
Before I retired I managed 200 staff and would have been taken to tribunals for correcting grammatical errors as it’s seen as bullying and harassment in the workplace in many organizations.

 

[parwaz786]

Sometimes I use my Iphone, I think its a smartphone with a DUMB battery.
I use my laptop and PC mostly

 

[hooverboy81]

Laptop! I fear I am not smart enough for a smart phone! lol! :/

 

[hoove94]

I use my Samsung Google nexus s smartphone...or my old laptop.

 

[mark40511]

desktop or laptop

I hate using my smart phone to surf the net.

 

[durango159]

Desktop PC

I'm on a desktop PC. Even though I don't have a smart phone, I just can't imagine internet surfacing or trying to read all the text on a screen that small. I'd rather be at home in my own privacy reading the posts and being able to see and post pictures and do a full update.


The same for online banking and facebook. I don't see anything that major with any of those to be out in public checking credit cards, etc. I'd rather be in the privacy of my own home checking my finances and paying bills online rather than what I see some others doing where they check their bank statements on their smart phones in public. I think that's too dangerous with all the identity theft out there.

Just my 2 cents.

 

[nycwriter]

Desktop and iPhone

24-inch iMac and my iPhone 4s.

But it's really hard to read the tiny type n the iPhone.

 

[whirlpolf]

computer only

desktop computer only here (E-mails answered Friday night by 6.00 p.m. unless I like that person so much that I would answer earlier/more often).

Smartphone /mobile /tablet refuser.
(That bloody internet should leave me alone while I am out in the real world enjoying a train ride or such).
A simple tree is nicer, a simple coffee with someone is more refreshing to me than to know who is where and who is about to do/decide/go public with just now that very moment.

Btw. smartphones and tablets are not workable computers for me, they're just electronic udders of the big cows of corporations, wanting (pleading) us to suck on them.
A tool is a tool but not a so called "life style" (as some mistake it to be).
*shrugging*

 

[petek]

I read this recently in an article about police and searching smart phones. It stated that every text message, phone, call , download, website, even your location while you were doing those things is recorded and NEVER deleted from the phones internal memory and can be retrieved.
There is no delete button on a smart-phone, it's a "hide" button

 

[papasvacs]

Desktop or laptop.........

<span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">I'm not smart enough to use a smart phone!</span>


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<span style="font-family: comic sans ms,sans-serif;">Not much on all the smartphones. Iphones, tablets, etc.  Rather just sit at my desk.</span>

 

[beko1987]

Justin, right click on the underlined word and it'll offer the correct one from the spell check. Failing that, bash it into Google quickly and it'll autocorrect.

Its how I get over dodgy words! Although on the nexus it auto corrects for me unless I've got it hopelessly wrong.

 

[portable]

<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: medium;">Laptop. I almost recently bought a Smartphone, but I decided that another $30 for something I would use only marginally was not worth it to me.</span>


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<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: medium;">By the way, I loved this from Whirlpolf: "<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Btw. smartphones and tablets are not workable computers for me, they're just electronic udders of the big cows of corporations, wanting (pleading) us to suck on them."</span></span>


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<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Yikes. While I do agree that spelling, grammar and syntax is not crucially inportant, I DO think it is polite to speak in complete sentences and knock off the abbreviation stuff. Unless you have a disability or condition, it is rude to expect others (old and cranky or not) to read cryptic messages that you banged out on your smartphone/tablet/laptop/desktop.</span></span>

 

[gottahaveahoove]

I just use my plain old

computer.  I STILL have a landline!  No "smart" anything.


 

 

[vacuumfreeeke]

I use my Windows laptop to write and post, but check and read from my Samsung Galaxy Relay smart phone... I'm on my Acer Iconia Tablet right now because I'm trying to get some use out of it since I paid three hundred dollars for the silly thing. I've had it since September and might have used it 6 times since then... I truly hate it and that was money I could have put toward an embroidery machine that I would love rather than this redundant piece of garbage....

Maybe I am in the minority, but I prefer longer responses rather than just a couple of lines of text... there's more content to engage with and it shows someone really cares enough to spend time writing a decent response.

Grammar and spelling issues really annoy me, but I do my best to keep my mouth shut because I am not the grammar police. I think the reason for many (not all) of the errors is that people don't know better or don't care... but a lot of things I see wrong, and not just on vacuum land, are things I learned in second grade. When people can't see your face or actually talk to you and are just reading text, they judge you by the way you write. Writing well is sadly becoming a lost art, in part due to the digital revolution. Of course nobody is perfect, but sometimes a little effort goes a long way with helping things be easier and more pleasant to read.

I do understand the limitations of different devices though... I'm on the tablet now and there is no way I am going to proofread and edit any post made from this device because it is too hard. Typing on my phone is easier than on this stupid tablet because the phone has a slide out keyboard... I bought a Bluetooth keyboard for the tablet but anntthng I tyyyp on itt lokks like this bcause it misses half the keys I strike and enters everything else twice.... I dream of smashing it or putting it in a blendtec!

I know it also makes a difference if someone knows how to type or not... people who hunt and peck don't write as long a response as people who know how to type and they generally have more errors as well. But we're straying from the topic now as this is about devices and not abilities