It's So Nice to Have A Digital Native Around the House

It seems like I spend a lot of time learning how to work my various e-devices. Like right now I'm typing this blog entry on a new Blogger app just for iPads. I've never been able to blog on my iPad, meaning that I have to take a laptop with me on trips. But today I saw that an app was now available and so I'm trying it out. It wasn't very well reviewed but it was free and I'm desperate, so we'll see what happens. An IPad keyboard doesn't feel the same as a regular keyboard, so typing on it is weird and takes a lot of deleting and redoing, but I hope it will get better in time and I could hunt up my wireless keyboard and synch it, but that's way too much trouble at the moment.

Anyway, what amazes me is that Paul doesn't seem to have the same long, hard learning curve that I do. So often he just seems to "get it" without the hard work that "getting it" takes me.

A case in point is this picture of a fun, happy, elegant chair that I wanted to copy (clip) from a digital House Beautiful magazine and copy into Evernote, another app that I'm playing with. A Google search revealed that the way to do this was to take a screen shot on the iPad that was displaying the magazine. Ok... How do I do that? Another Google search.... How did we live without Google?... Told me to hold down the home button and the power button simultaneously. While I was reading this aloud Paul heard me and said "Oh, I know how to do that!" And indeed he did. One click later he had my picture clipped. Now how did he know? "Oh, I just did."

It sure is nice to have a digital native around the house.

As for the chair, doesn't it just make you smile?