I also use Chrome but here's what I did. I opened up Internet Explorer, pasted the URL for the PDF file in the address bar, and brought up the PDF file, and then clicked on the upper left where it says FILE, I selected SAVE, and I put it on my desktop.

So even before I get this little toy, I now have a tutorial.

And can you believe that for the previous minute I am typing letters like PDF, URL, FILE , save. And I knew how to put a PDF file on my desktop. THERE IS HOPE FOR HIS OLD BIRD YET!!!



rofl.

Melody

Check out the 26 images on Tigerdirect too, it shows the icons, the keyboard, Facebook, eReader and other stuff.....

Really? And I just did a live chat with a rep and made sure I could return it if it turns out to be a dud. The guy said "sure no problem, you have 30 days.

I'll know within one day if I can get this thing to do ANYTHING.

I feel like I did when I got my first VCR 30 years ago, and I had to get my neighbor to come into my house and show me how to program the stupid clock (never mind program the vcr to tape a show).

I looked at her while she was pressing buttons (don't forget this was 30 YEARS AGO), and i told her "I can NEVER learn to do this"

Look what I can do NOW!!!!

HOW FUN!!!

Melody
P.S. I think it's all the Methyl B-12 I take and I eat wild samon and avocados. My brain WORKS!! lol

FWIW, I have a B.Sc. and last night I was in a friends Mercedes and I could NOT figure out how to work the radio....so I just turned it off.

LOL

I can go you one better. When you indicated it was on sale for $59.99 I FORGOT that I had put the link on this thread. I thought YOU were giving me the link. Once I went back and re-read my postings I said out loud "Oh, I originally put the link to this item here". You found that it was on sale for $59.99. You saved me twenty bucks.

I just went to where it said 26 images. Didn't see any 26 images. About 5 or so. The side view, the back view, AND IT HAS A STAND!!!

How cool.

Oh, it says it has a default that if you don't touch the screen for 15 seconds the screen goes away. So if one is watching a video and not touching the screen for 15 seconds, what does one do?

Not sure what this means?

Are you a tablet knowledgable person? lol

Melody

Hopefully thats not the case, but maybe IF something like a vid or game or whatnot is running then it wont hibernate....hopefully.

And, no, I am not tablet savvy at all, but I research enough for customers and buy for others that I have a mild understanding....:p

Well, your mild understanding is WAY more than what I know. And even more than a friend of mine.

Here's the conversation I had 15 minutes ago.


Melody: "Guess what, I just bought a tablet".
She: "What's a tablet?"
Melody: "Do you know what an Ipad is?"
She: "Oh yeah"
Melody: "Well, that's a Tablet"
She: "Oh, I thought it was a notebook, I have one of those"
Melody: "You have a notebook, that means you have a laptop"
She: "No, I have a Notebook, an Iphone (which she has never used), a Laptop (which she uses)
Melody: 'What do you mean you have a Notebook?"
She: "Oh we got one free, it's a square thing with a flat screen and it has no keyboard"
Melody 'YOU HAVE A TABLET???"
She: "No, It's called a Notebook" And no she never used it.

I give up.
rofl.

That sounds like most conversations I have had doing tech support...:cool:

Did ya get it yet?

HI. Not yet. It's been shipped. This should be SOME learning experience for me. Never in all my mind did I ever think I would own something that I can hold in my hand, and go on the internet with. And my friends (the others who DO use their smart phones), but NEVER go on the internet with them. They just do texting.

And this IS funny. I know people who go on Facebook and who buy things from websites but DO NOT OWN A COMPUTER and don't know how to use one. They only know their phones.

And then I know people who have IPADs, Smart phones, and laptops and only know how to use them, not how to download anything, or set the thing up. They have other family members set them up, and then they are all set.

I hope I figure out how to do this. I'm just hoping that when I open it and take it out of the box, and charge it up, that all I have to do (if I'm near a wi fi hotspot), well, all I have to do is touch the icon and it shall wisk me away to google land.

We shall see.

Next on my list?? A robot that does housework. And they DO HAVE THIS IN JAPAN!!

lol

Melody

I have used a couple iPads and a couple of the android ones on occasion, and if you can work a smartphone and a laptop you wont have any trouble at all with a tablet.

They are pretty much just touch and go out of the box. There may be a bit of a learning curve with the keyboard and the layout, but it will become 2nd nature pretty quick..

You will be fine :)