Winter On The Sunshine Coast

We are entering the coldest time of the year in this part of the world.  The padded fleecy shirts have come out as has the warm woollen socks.  We expect this coldest weather of the year to go through from now until around the end of July.  Daily top temperatures then seem to begin to rise from what we can expect nowadays which is 20 or the low 20's.  Overnight it gets into single figures.

Despite all this we still haven't felt the need to turn the heating on.  The coldest time of the day is around 5pm.  We close the blinds in the living room to retain any warmth and this seems to work OK.  Then while sitting in the living room it 'feels' warmer by 7pm or 8pm.

Morning bike rides now depart after 8:30am when things have warmed up a little.

Computer Club was OK yesterday and it was good not to be rushed off my feet despite there being a bumper attendance.

There was one lady and her Samsung 10" tablet.  She and her husband took the tablet with them when travelling overseas.  They had a heap of photos which the tablet had 'saved' onto the micro SD card rather than the tablet's own built in internal memory.  She wanted to transfer the photos off the external SD card onto the tablet itself.

I introduced her to an app called ES File Manager which was downloaded at no cost from the android "Play Store".  This is the most amazing Android App and allows you to copy/paste files anywhere on your home wireless network to and from your tablet.

Here at home I have set up "Sharing" on the computers.  Sharing means you allow other devices on the home network to copy/paste or run programs or files from one device to another.

On my phone or the 7" android tablet it is possible to navigate to a movie or any file on another device and have it play on the phone or tablet.

In some ways these 'apps' are like add ons for Firefox.  If there is something you want the tablet or Android phone to do, most likely there is an app which will do it for you!

The lady was delighted with just what this new app enabled her to do.