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From: Woody on 5 May 2010 18:59 Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > > > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > > > > Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > > > Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > > > > > > > > > I've got an iPod touch and I'd like to stick a text note on it from a > > > > > Mac. > > > > > > > > > > I've looked in iTunes help to see if the job's do-able, and drawn a > > > > > blank. > > > > > > > > > > The iTunes UI shows a `Sync notes' entry - can anyone explain what it > > > > > does? > > > > > > > > It syncs the notes that you can make within mail with the notepad on the > > > > iPod. > > > > > > Hmm - is there no other way of getting `notes' onto an iPod? > > > > I am sure there must be some other applications that do note sync but I > > have never used any. > > What do you mean by that? I mean that on the iTunes store there are other applications that can create and sync notes. > I really do not like this way of working - can't even save the bloody > things to file or anything. They are saved to a file in ~/Library/Mail/Mailboxes/Notes.mbox/Messages > > > Seems a bit of a pain, having to use Mail.app for the job, if only > > > because you've got to set up an email account to run Mail.app at all[1]. > > > > Can you set up a dummy one? you can set it to not check. > > My previous post explained in very plain English that I had in fact done > set up a dummy account. Yes, but that was afterwards in a footnote, I didn't go round and re-write it. > You'd find it easier to converse with people if you paid some respect to > their words, you know. Hello pot, love kettle! > Nothing tricky or unusual, just > listening/reading to what they actual transmit to you. > > I find the contempt with which you treat me bloody annoying, Woody. Oh get over yourself. Go sort it out yourself, I don't know why I even bother. I am fed up of you ranting and raving at people being abusive when they are trying to help you fix the things that you can't get to work because you are just to damn stupid to work it out yourself. -- Woody www.alienrat.com
From: Jim on 6 May 2010 02:08 Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > Oh get over yourself. Go sort it out yourself, I don't know why I even > bother. > I am fed up of you ranting and raving at people being abusive when they > are trying to help you fix the things that you can't get to work because > you are just to damn stupid to work it out yourself. If he's going to insist that he knows better, and keeps putting oil where the water should go, then best to just let him get on with it. If he's not going to listen then there's no point in explaining. Jim -- http://www.ursaMinorBeta.co.uk http://twitter.com/GreyAreaUK Please help save Bletchley Park - sign the petition for Government funding at: (open to UK residents and ex.pats) http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/BletchleyPark/ Thank you.
From: T i m on 6 May 2010 02:57 On Wed, 5 May 2010 23:59:35 +0100, usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk (Woody) wrote: >> I find the contempt with which you treat me bloody annoying, Woody. > >Oh get over yourself. Go sort it out yourself, I don't know why I even >bother. >I am fed up of you ranting and raving at people being abusive when they >are trying to help you fix the things that you can't get to work because >you are just to damn stupid to work it out yourself. Ask him when his birthday is, go on, ask him ... <Fires up biorhythm calculator> T i m
From: Woody on 6 May 2010 03:08 T i m <news(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote: > On Wed, 5 May 2010 23:59:35 +0100, usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk (Woody) > wrote: > > > >> I find the contempt with which you treat me bloody annoying, Woody. > > > >Oh get over yourself. Go sort it out yourself, I don't know why I even > >bother. > >I am fed up of you ranting and raving at people being abusive when they > >are trying to help you fix the things that you can't get to work because > >you are just to damn stupid to work it out yourself. > > Ask him when his birthday is, go on, ask him ... > > <Fires up biorhythm calculator> Well, if your biorythm calculator is any good, you should be able to work it backwards from here and find out when he was born. Try april 1967, see if you can find the day! -- Woody www.alienrat.com
From: T i m on 6 May 2010 03:44
On Thu, 6 May 2010 08:08:26 +0100, usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk (Woody) wrote: >T i m <news(a)spaced.me.uk> wrote: > >> On Wed, 5 May 2010 23:59:35 +0100, usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk (Woody) >> wrote: >> >> >> >> I find the contempt with which you treat me bloody annoying, Woody. >> > >> >Oh get over yourself. Go sort it out yourself, I don't know why I even >> >bother. >> >I am fed up of you ranting and raving at people being abusive when they >> >are trying to help you fix the things that you can't get to work because >> >you are just to damn stupid to work it out yourself. >> >> Ask him when his birthday is, go on, ask him ... >> >> <Fires up biorhythm calculator> > >Well, if your biorythm calculator is any good, you should be able to >work it backwards from here and find out when he was born. Try april >1967, see if you can find the day! Calculating ...... |