I must be getting tech dependent...

Ultradog MN · Oct 22, 2018

I do everything on my phone anymore.
Post here, take and upload photos, text people, etc, etc.
If you have a smart phone you know how you can take your thumb and forefinger together and swipe the screen to make text or photos expand larger or smaller.
So I went to Home Depot to buy some pop rivets today.
I couldnt quite see the writing on the package so automatically I used my thumb and forefinger to swipe the package to make the writing larger. It didn't work so I tried again.
Then I realized it was a box of rivets and not my phone and wasn't gonna work.
I had to do it the old fashioned way and put my glasses on...

BlaineM · Oct 22, 2018

Yep,btdt

johnofnewhaven · Oct 22, 2018

So true!!!

Ozlander · Oct 22, 2018

And if the rivet is too long, just pull your fingers together til it's the right length.

Geo-TH,In · Oct 22, 2018

I've done that before when I've forgot my reading glasses.

Another app: "Shopping list" downloaded to smartphone. Just say what you need and you don't have to write down a shopping list that you most likely leave at home when you go shopping. Shopping list will be on your phone.

sms · Oct 22, 2018

Supposed to take a picture first then enlarge it so you don't need glasses. Was in HD today and got to the register and the tag was damaged so it couldn't be read. Cashier sent me to take a picture of the sign on the rack for the skew number.

Billy NY · Oct 22, 2018

Smartphone has a lot of useful features, I like using the camera for lots of things. One is taking a photo of a detail or similar on a blueprint, just enlarge and see what you want to see up close.

showcrop · Oct 22, 2018

Just hit the magnifying glass icon on your iPhone.

fixerupper · Oct 22, 2018

Kind of along the same line, our microwave is right beside the refrig. How many times have I headed for the micro to heat up dinner and I opened the refrig door instead! A smart phone camera works great for reading an obscure serial number. Sometimes I will use a small led flashlight to light a barely readable serial number, shining the light at an angle that makes the number stand out a little better, then snap the photo with the other hand. The challenge is keeping the phone from slipping while I’m trying to touch the screen with my thumb to take the pics. ????

fixerupper · Oct 22, 2018

Kind of along the same line, our microwave is right beside the refrig. How many times have I headed for the micro to heat up dinner and I opened the refrig door instead! A smart phone camera works great for reading an obscure serial number. Sometimes I will use a small led flashlight to light a barely readable serial number, shining the light at an angle that makes the number stand out a little better, then snap the photo with the other hand. The challenge is keeping the phone from slipping while I’m trying to touch the screen with my thumb to take the pics.

ditchwitch · Oct 22, 2018

Yep your phone dependent. Now that you have realized that. Its time to leave it at home for a while. Just think how much you can get done.

db4600 · Oct 22, 2018

I?ve been there. Then you realize you just take a picture of the rivets, poke, poke, swipe....voila!
The last update gave it a point and shoot measure ap. I?m thinking about putting my tape measures on the garage sale.

Steve@Advance · Oct 22, 2018

I guess it's going to be a while before the phone is an automatic "go to" for me.

I finally got a so called "smart" phone, but to me its an uncooperative albatross that will rarely even make or receive a call.

If I try to call out without going outside it will connect then immediately drop the call.

Trying to answer a call usually ends up with it going to voice mail as I am frantically trying to swipe it.

But take it back to the phone store and it works perfectly while the fast talking millennial rolls his eyes at the ignorant old fool taking up his time. LOL

But I can not wrap my mind around grabbing the phone to take pictures. I am so conditioned to the old school camera that was limited to the roll of film and the cost of processing, that it is reserved for special purposes only! Not saying I don't take pictures, it's just that I have to remember that is an option now!

It is a real life saver too, my memory is not what it was. Used to be I could take something apart and remember exactly how it went back together a year later. Now, I better take lots of pictures, just in case...

Bruce(OR) · Oct 22, 2018

That's when you take a picture of it and then zoom in. Works great on VIN numbers and such small print.

3000OH · Oct 22, 2018

Set the timer on the camera. IPhone will give you up to 10
sec before it images.

SweetFeet · Oct 22, 2018

Too funny, Ultradog!

One time I was posting stuff on a bulletin board at work. I pinned something on there... then silently thought "Undo". Then said out loud, "Wow!" LOL

I must be getting tech dependent...

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