New Things
Week from Monday 11th November 2024 - I paid a 'shopping' visit to GOSPORT... and with HORSEPICKLE appointments now piling up for well into the New Year, I figured it must be about that time when I acquired a 2025 DIARY to write it all down in! Yes folks, it's VOLUME TWO of "My Medical Life"! I spent a morning transferring still-relevant notes from an old diary into the new one, and I added the unwanted old stuff onto the ever-growing SHREDDER heap.
I've installed the BBC SOUNDS app onto 'MY BIGGER ANDROID' and I'm tinkering around to see what one can and can't do on it. I've got last night's FERGUS McCREADIE concert off of Radio Three by way of a 'TEST CASE'.
It's a well-thought-out app, but I've already found some snags. The app allows you to download programmes for OFFLINE listening (for up to thirty days after the broadcast), but I can't for the life of me work out where the 'downloads' are saved to on my device, or indeed, whether they are 'saved' in any real sense or useful format.
I'm also having trouble getting the new tablet's audio to output to anything except headphones, as it has just a single multipurpose jack socket. The headphones sound fabulous by the way, but much further experimentation will ensue before I can establish a MODUS OPERANDI.
Thankfully though, being the BBC, at least it's not festooned with adverts like just about everything else on the GooglePlay app store!
Talking of things "festooned with adverts"... In the wake of all the recent toxic Trumpery and maloderous Muskery, 'X' is losing a whole lotta users to the PLACE WITH THE SKIES FULL OF BUTTERFLIES. Folks have finally HAD ENOUGH and are finding 'X' untenable in its current incarnation.
I must admit that I still haven't noticed THAT much difference, given my highly-personalised/customised app situation - I'm still on the REAL Twitter, so yah boo sucks and bugger off GROK!
But I've noticed FEWER notifications from Twitterchums when I wake up in the morning, and considerably MORE from the Bloosky, as increasing numbers of the people I 'follow' have upped sticks and crossed over.
Bloosky is certainly a nicer place to get 'SOCIAL', but it has a long way to go before it can serve as a useful 'NEWSFEED' for the kind of things I want to READ about. So Twitter is still my go-to for the time being, but I'm keeping an eye out for when people on my timeline announce that they now have a presence in the 'Sky instead (Still no CYCLING teams/riders/fans over there - that's the clincher!).
But one thing I've noticed is that PAGE LOADING on the Bloosky app is not exactly instantaneous on any of my devices. If they are going to cope with the massive TWEXODUS of users, they're going to have to buy or rent a bigger, faster 'CLOUD'. I'm not sure how they can do that while remaining 'AD-FREE'...
I've installed the BBC SOUNDS app onto 'MY BIGGER ANDROID' and I'm tinkering around to see what one can and can't do on it. I've got last night's FERGUS McCREADIE concert off of Radio Three by way of a 'TEST CASE'.
It's a well-thought-out app, but I've already found some snags. The app allows you to download programmes for OFFLINE listening (for up to thirty days after the broadcast), but I can't for the life of me work out where the 'downloads' are saved to on my device, or indeed, whether they are 'saved' in any real sense or useful format.
I'm also having trouble getting the new tablet's audio to output to anything except headphones, as it has just a single multipurpose jack socket. The headphones sound fabulous by the way, but much further experimentation will ensue before I can establish a MODUS OPERANDI.
Thankfully though, being the BBC, at least it's not festooned with adverts like just about everything else on the GooglePlay app store!
Talking of things "festooned with adverts"... In the wake of all the recent toxic Trumpery and maloderous Muskery, 'X' is losing a whole lotta users to the PLACE WITH THE SKIES FULL OF BUTTERFLIES. Folks have finally HAD ENOUGH and are finding 'X' untenable in its current incarnation.
I must admit that I still haven't noticed THAT much difference, given my highly-personalised/customised app situation - I'm still on the REAL Twitter, so yah boo sucks and bugger off GROK!
But I've noticed FEWER notifications from Twitterchums when I wake up in the morning, and considerably MORE from the Bloosky, as increasing numbers of the people I 'follow' have upped sticks and crossed over.
Bloosky is certainly a nicer place to get 'SOCIAL', but it has a long way to go before it can serve as a useful 'NEWSFEED' for the kind of things I want to READ about. So Twitter is still my go-to for the time being, but I'm keeping an eye out for when people on my timeline announce that they now have a presence in the 'Sky instead (Still no CYCLING teams/riders/fans over there - that's the clincher!).
But one thing I've noticed is that PAGE LOADING on the Bloosky app is not exactly instantaneous on any of my devices. If they are going to cope with the massive TWEXODUS of users, they're going to have to buy or rent a bigger, faster 'CLOUD'. I'm not sure how they can do that while remaining 'AD-FREE'...
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