Aright folks, our app is live.

For our smart phone users simply surf over to our normal url at www.thepatriotwoodworker.com and the mobile version should default on your smart phones. At the upper right is a pull down menu showing the available pages at this point. We are still in development.

Right now your able to:

Access the Forum and participate in discussions

Access your "My Page"

Access "Blogs"

We even have a special access page for the "Woodcraft Blog"

Access "Photos"

Access "Groups" and "Events"

Please let us know if you'd like to see other pages or areas of our site up there that are not there now.

Within each of these pages you should be able to use them as you are able to on your desk top as far as accessibility goes.

There is also a prompt for the "Desktop Version" but that will display the entire desktop and it will look small but for the Ipad users this will be beneficial.

We would like to encourage you all with smart phones to get on here, tool around, and give us some feedback. As with anything, give it a chance, and get used to it. Don't expect it to be as convenient as your desk top pc. Nothing is. We are still working on a graphic bar at the top of the app instead of that drab looking generic Patriot Woodworker bar you'll see.

Thank you all and I look forward to hearing your feedback on our newest cool feature here at TPW!

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John Morris
The Patriot Woodworker
Proud Supporter of Wounded Warrior Project and Homes For Our Troops

John,

I'll need an app. for a dumb phone, mine only shows who's calling!!............

 

Larry

Old Woodworking Machinery Forum Host

It's definitely easier to navigate than the earlier version. But where's the smilies?

Hey it works I can see what I posted from my phone on my laptop  I like it so far, using the desktop version on my phone, even with a full wireless or 3G connection it was as slow as dial up, remember those days ? 

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Greg
Scroll Saw forum host

http://www.thesawdustfactoryga.com/

Greg,

Remember trying to do Windows Updates with dialup...and then getting cut off in the middle.

 

Larry

Old Woodworking Machinery Forum Host

I'll pull t down tomorrow and play with it.

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Wayne Mahler
God bless and protect our troops that serve so we can be free.

Larry

seriously I thought that went out ages ago. 

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Wayne Mahler
God bless and protect our troops that serve so we can be free.

I do remember those days Larry, where I live we have one choice for dsl service and up til 5 years ago it was waaaay to expensive. I remember 3.5 floppies too

Greg,

I still use 3.5" floppies.......

Wayne,

I think there are still dialup services available, but I sure am glad to have broadband cable. I could just see uploading photos here........ that and just trying to see whats up...............

Larry

Dad has dial up, they are all over the place still, there is a need for rural folks etc. He has TurboUSA and used to have PeoplePC dial up. The Turbo account he has is anything but Turbo, but that is all they have where he lives, unless you want to pay 100 bucks a month for satellite broadband.

Larry Buskirk said:

Greg,

I still use 3.5" floppies.......

Wayne,

I think there are still dialup services available, but I sure am glad to have broadband cable. I could just see uploading photos here........ that and just trying to see whats up...............

Larry

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John Morris
The Patriot Woodworker
Proud Supporter of Wounded Warrior Project and Homes For Our Troops

I had ISDN before DSL and you want to talk expensive. It was 256k and was over three hundred a month. Talk about remembering 3.5 go on back to 5.25 single sided and even further back I saved to cassette tapes. No wonder I feel so old. I may just sit in the porch swing all day today.

Greg Aksdal said:

I do remember those days Larry, where I live we have one choice for dsl service and up til 5 years ago it was waaaay to expensive. I remember 3.5 floppies too

John,

I still have a working Teak 3.5/5.25 dual floppy drive, and a tape drive! Remember doing the internet in DOS?

Larry
John Moody said:

I had ISDN before DSL and you want to talk expensive. It was 256k and was over three hundred a month. Talk about remembering 3.5 go on back to 5.25 single sided and even further back I saved to cassette tapes. No wonder I feel so old. I may just sit in the porch swing all day today.





Greg Aksdal said:

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John Moody
Site Administrator


John Moody Woodworks
http://www.johnmoodywoodworks.com

Larry, I didn't even play on the internet until about the mid 90's and by that time they had the IE browser, that might have been the first user friendly browser available to the public. So I got in after the DOS versions.

I do remember in High School in the early eighties I had a computer class, we were using the Comodor and we were doing DOS commands and storing our work on those 5.25 floppies, the ones that looked like a paper envelope with a vinyl floppy cd size disk in the jacket, those were really floppy!!! We have come along way, I am so glad Al Gore invented the internet for us, what a breakthrough in technology.

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John Morris
The Patriot Woodworker
Proud Supporter of Wounded Warrior Project and Homes For Our Troops

John,

Actually the first versions of IE were a DOS program, but then so were the early versions of Windows. You had to have DOS loaded so you could load the Windows program. The first version of Windows 95 was the same way. I think I still have Windows 95 on floppy disk. If I remember correctly between loading DOS, and Windows 95 was a total of about 30 floppies.

Remember the Tandy computers from Radio Shack?

 Man, now I feel OLD! ...

Larry

The first computers I was exposed to were Tandy trash 80's that the Army bought by the truckload in probably '84 or '85, I was one of the dispatchers for our Trans Co. and in the years time I spent in that office, I think it actually worked less than 30 days altogether. When I ETS'd in '86 they were still trying to figure it out. In our unit it was intended to replace the old paer dispatch sheets and keep better maintaince records. Hey I still got a Zip drive somewhere, I'm sure you remember them 

Larry Buskirk said:

John,

Actually the first versions of IE were a DOS program, but then so were the early versions of Windows. You had to have DOS loaded so you could load the Windows program. The first version of Windows 95 was the same way. I think I still have Windows 95 on floppy disk. If I remember correctly between loading DOS, and Windows 95 was a total of about 30 floppies.

Remember the Tandy computers from Radio Shack?

 Man, now I feel OLD! ...

Larry

This may or may not be an issue with the app. It could be my OS on my phone, but before I could access the website and select "Home" with no problem but now when the app loads the website it takes me directly to the forum page with the list view. I then select desktop view which takes me to the graphic view but again it only allows me to see the forum page. Selecting the "Home" button continues to take me to the forum page with the list view again. Very frustrating. I didn't have this issue before so I'm wondering if it's the app.