Pluggers by Rick McKee for May 17, 2024

With their passwords…..

No, I keep my passwords in a separate notebook.

She makes sense though…writing the info down is faster than trying to type on the phone.

Young hackers would have trouble reading cursive, even if they stole her purse.

Hard to “Hack” pad and pen ;-)

and when the phone dies she still has a hard copy

Alas, the address book is sitting next to the buggy whip …

Wish i had done that when my iphone 7 died last month. Not everything was in the cloud. Analog backup is the way to go.

My address book is over 25 yo. Anyone got a smartphone that old? Didn’t think so.

I is a good idea to carry some contact information that isn’t stored in a smart device. In case of an accident, a hospital needs to get permission from ‘next of kin’ before they can operate or give a blood transfusion.

Our son was on a business trip on the other side of the county when his car was crashed into [by a business executive trying to plug in his tablet]. He was unconscious and they kept him in an induced coma while they dealt with some of his injuries. His phone and computer were both password protected and the only contact information they had was his company name [and this happened on a Sunday]. Luckily he didn’t need any blood, because we didn’t hear about it until Monday afternoon when the company secretary called us to see how he was doing. She didn’t realize that hospitals [at least the ones in Arizona] do not have to contact family unless permission is needed for blood transfusions or ‘decisions’ for treatment had to be made. If the rescue squad or police had had access to a phone number, they would have been able to call.

Speaking of address books, I need to up date mine into a new book.

These days, the younger generation / most people only know their own phone number and address. They would be totally lost without their smart phones.

I do not have a smart or dumb phone.

If the phone fails, she will still have the info.

Not an address book, but a mini calendar. For all the years I’ve had a phone, I still find using a calendar app annoying. The people in line behind me at the doctor’s office are probably annoyed when I try to use a calendar app on my phone, too.

Safer than adding to the Contacts app. What numbers I do need on my phone are kept in a separate text file, not linked to the Internet.

My second cellphone was a Palm Centro – one of the first smart phones. It was wonderful – everything I needed in something only 4" x2" x1/2"!!! I would sync it with Lotus Organizer in my computers. Could go online, address/phone book, calendar, tasks to do and those done, and also note book of needed info – which books I had read in what category so I did not read them again (real books – not on computer or phone).

Then I had to change to an Android phone – okay, only a little bit bigger – though not able to keep track of todos and completed todos and did not sync with Lotus Organizer. My solution was to keep the Palm up to date and sync with LO in addition to the Android.

THEN – I had to get a new Android phone. Something I do not understand – my relatively new 4G phone (less than a year old) had to replaced (per the manufacture) when 3G was discontinued -which makes no sense to me. So I now have a cell phone which if I do not place in exactly the right spot in my hand it falls off the back of my (relatively small) hand! Husband had told me that the apps would be the same in the 5G as it was in the 4G – ha ha ha!! I hate most of the apps I have to use now – especially the calendar one.

My solution – I use the new phone for the few phone calls I make (mom once a week) and for the few texts (2 a day max) I make (tell husband dinner is ready or where I am in a store if we separate). Its main use is the almost continuous texts from what I refer to as “The other political party” . I can get up to 40 text messages a day from same – and not for local elections or matters!!

I keep the Palm system going also and use it as PDA at home and on trips, still syncing it with Lotus Organizer. Husband made me a virtual Win XP in my laptop and in my desktop computers so I can keep using it.