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rodders999 wrote:What the hell is that in your avatar Flash

It looks like Jimmy Saville's mother!!

Its Brian Bedonde from Facejacker

CraigPollard wrote:Hi BT,

It doesnt really answer your question, but if you download the "Opera Mini" browser from the app store you will find the site is easy to navigate with no issues.
You can even add a little pictoral link to the Opera start page

As i said, it doesnt solve the safari issue, but does allow you to see and use the OG from an iphone

If you can download Firefox from www.mozilla.com then give it a go, if not then use Craig's suggestion above.

Can anyone explain in plain English to this old fogey what the fudge this thread is about? The only words I understood were FireFox; Mac; Windows and iphone.

I Hate Hleb wrote:Can anyone explain in plain English to this old fogey what the fudge this thread is about? The only words I understood were FireFox; Mac; Windows and iphone.

Well, there was this bloke called Pythagoras and then a bloke called Alexander Graham Bell and then a bloke called Babbage and then someone invented the transistor and then the microchip and by the late 1960's American defence computers talked to each other via phone lines. This technology was taken up by academic institutions in a system called JANET and was seen in such early 80's films as "War Games". You may remember at school having a computer that had a modem that could talk to a computer in the next room?

Anyway, by early 90's the http:// was invented and a bloke called Berners-Lee and ...

oh...forget it,

you are an old fogey!

IHH do you still have the box for your PC!

Thanks for trying anyway V.

Mind you, it was a good thing you stopped because you were in danger of jumping into the intellectual deep-end, and if you had grabbed me, we would have both drowned!!!

Boomer wrote:IHH do you still have the box for your PC!

No, I have a type writer and carrier pigeon.

sound older

I Hate Hleb wrote:

Boomer wrote:IHH do you still have the box for your PC!

No, I have a type writer and carrier pigeon.

So you cant figure out how to work a bloody phone but you can somehow teach a pigeon to type?

Its Up 4 Grabs Now wrote:

I Hate Hleb wrote:

Boomer wrote:IHH do you still have the box for your PC!

No, I have a type writer and carrier pigeon.

So you cant figure out how to work a bloody phone but you can somehow teach a pigeon to type?

Quality.....

goonersid wrote:The thing is, does anybody really need an i phone? what a fucking con it is, all you need from your mobile phone is the ability to make calls and send texts. The rest of the bullshit just gets on my fucking tits. If you want to llisten to music when you are walking about Then get a fucking mp3 player thingymabob

You and me could be twins Sid. I f**king hate these latest "must have" gizmos and all the marketing bollocks that go with them. It's the Emperor's New Clothes!

I've got an old Nokia that can make / receive calls, send texts and take a picture of my son for my screen saver. What more do you need?

Who needs f**king Android this, robot that, application blah blah blah?

flash gunner wrote:

rodders999 wrote:What the hell is that in your avatar Flash

It looks like Jimmy Saville's mother!!

Its Brian Bedonde from Facejacker

Isn't Sir Jimmy's mother dead and doesn't he keep her body in his wardrobe??

I'm sure I saw that on Louis Theroux . . . . . .

Jumpers For Goalposts wrote:

goonersid wrote:The thing is, does anybody really need an i phone? what a fucking con it is, all you need from your mobile phone is the ability to make calls and send texts. The rest of the bullshit just gets on my fucking tits. If you want to llisten to music when you are walking about Then get a fucking mp3 player thingymabob

You and me could be twins Sid. I f**king hate these latest "must have" gizmos and all the marketing bollocks that go with them. It's the Emperor's New Clothes!

I've got an old Nokia that can make / receive calls, send texts and take a picture of my son for my screen saver. What more do you need?

Who needs f**king Android this, robot that, application blah blah blah?

Does it have a radio?

BT"y take ya iphone to the store you bought it at and they will show you...
If not..come round here and ill show you how to get it up.

Jumpers For Goalposts wrote:

flash gunner wrote:

rodders999 wrote:What the hell is that in your avatar Flash

It looks like Jimmy Saville's mother!!

Its Brian Bedonde from Facejacker

Isn't Sir Jimmy's mother dead and doesn't he keep her body in his wardrobe??

I'm sure I saw that on Louis Theroux . . . . . .

Thats it, a bit like Norman Bates