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Laughing at myself. Anyone else?

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Tstrong2000

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So I cracked myself up today while working on my laptop and as I was reading an article, I found myself trying to click to the hyperlink by using my finger on the screen. Perhaps I have been usung my iPad 2 so much that this whole "mouse" thing is seeming old fashioned?

Admit it; you have done it too right? :D
 
I can't count the number of times I click the top bar in safari or IE expecting it to auto scroll to the TOP
 
I'm guilty of "reverse scrolling" on my track pad, and clicking on the top of Safari to try to make the page scroll up.

Both habits are deeply ingrained by the iPad. They seem so natural, I'm always surprised they just doesn't "work" on my desktop.

I haven't poked at the screen yet though...
 
Tstrong2000 said:
So I cracked myself up today while working on my laptop and as I was reading an article, I found myself trying to click to the hyperlink by using my finger on the screen. Perhaps I have been usung my iPad 2 so much that this whole "mouse" thing is seeming old fashioned?

Admit it; you have done it too right? :D
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Been there, done that :D
 
In my family I am not alone on this because I am always finding finger prints on my iMac screen, and I always have to remind everyone "the iMac does not have a touch screen" :D
 
Haven't touched the screen yet, but I do double press the space bar and get surprised that it hasn't typed a full stop. Also that it doesn't type in apostrophes for me when I expect it to.
 
This is so true. I type much better on my iPad than a traditional keyboard. The horizontal keyboard fits my fingers better. The iPad is now my communication device of choice.
 
Yep, I always expect auto caps, apostrophe, and double tapping the space bar for a period. Both on the iMac and Winblows laptop. I do industrial automation, and try to do the gestures on WinCE touchscreen operator interfaces.
 
MrWillie said:
Yep, I always expect auto caps, apostrophe, and double tapping the space bar for a period. Both on the iMac and Winblows laptop. I do industrial automation, and try to do the gestures on WinCE touchscreen operator interfaces.
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this one time i was using my Wireless Keyboard and I finished typing a website address and then I started looking for the .com Key, I quickly realized thats not an actual Key.
 
It gets worse :D, a while back I was at the Apple Store, and this woman kept poking on the Macbook Air's screen,I mean she knocked the hell out of the screen lol, she then called one of the blue shirt guys, telling him that they have a faulty line of Macbooks :eek:
 
MrWillie said:
Yep, I always expect auto caps, apostrophe, and double tapping the space bar for a period. Both on the iMac and Winblows laptop. I do industrial automation, and try to do the gestures on WinCE touchscreen operator interfaces.
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Haha! Same here! I often get comments on my FB and emails that I need to learn to use punctuation! Lol
 
No. But only because I have a super glossy macbook pro screen which is very hard to keep clean. Laying greasy fingers on my screen is dealt swiftly with punches to the face. I do wish for the double space bar for punctuation thing though.
 
Well, while I have not touched my MacBook screen, I have repeatedly pushed my stupid work-related Blackberry screen . . . Doh . . .
 
I touched an advertisement in a magazine wanting more information. You know, like a real magazine, made of paper.
 
I was at my favorite pub a couple of weeks ago and they have one of those networked jukeboxes there. During my search for some music to play I swiped the screen to get to the next page. I looked around to be sure no one was looking. :eek:
 
I was talking to my husband about doing something or other on the computer, and I realized I was gesturing as though I were swiping/scrolling.
 
VidPro said:
I was at my favorite pub a couple of weeks ago and they have one of those networked jukeboxes there. During my search for some music to play I swiped the screen to get to the next page. I looked around to be sure no one was looking. :eek:
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Did the same thing on a Redbox the other day! :eek:
 
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