Harbor Freight Tools that don't suck

[joeyd]

If the image isn't good enough for them to use their scanner, or if the scanner is a "Chicago Specialty" brand :laughing: and can't scan the phone just read the coupon number under the bar code to the cashier that will work too.

 

[Oldpath05]

https://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200625243_200625243<<<If I get this filter how far away from air compressor should I place it?

 

[bigtiller]

https://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200625243_200625243<<<If I get this filter how far away from air compressor should I place it?

That's a good one.

There should be a 1 page instruction manual with it, mine did. It called for 20 feet. I bought a 1/2" x 25' long rubber air hose, connected one end to the tank, coiled about 20 feet into a 15" coil on the floor and connected the other end to the regulator. That 20' foot coil on the cool concrete floor is enough to let the air cool and condense into large enough droplets that the 5 micron filter can separate.

 

[California]

'Harbor Freight Coupon Database' is an Android ap for your phone. ... show the phone to the clerk. They scan the barcode right off your phone.

Bummer that there is no iPhone version.

Oh man I've been livid for two days over the closed world of Apple.

30 years ago we typed our audit reports on pc laptops - typically 6~10 pages, and took them to the front office secretary to retype on her Mac so the boss with her Mac could make final edits which became the official version. In addition to inefficient this meant the electronic copy of the official report was inaccessible to everyone but the front office. Not only because PC's and Macs couldn't read one another's text, or diskettes, but also the Apple and PC partitions on the office network were incompatible, mutually inaccessible. Then it's my fault because "Mac's are supposed to be simple, teach me how to use mine" - when I had no access to one at all. Bah.

Move the calendar forward 30 years to last week. A dear friend, a retired attorney and thoroughly pc-literate before she retired, wrote an affidavit for me that I badly needed - on her iPad. She had no idea how to email or text it to me or print it. Her sister came over to help her, the 'Mac guru' from the closed world of Apple products in elementary education who had advised her to buy the iPad. They emailed me something with a .pages suffix. I Googled for advice how to read it and learned you have to go on a Mac to make a pc-readable version, there's no way for the recipient to translate .pages on a pc. In the several files comprising the .pages email I found a micro-sized visual image, a jpg, of the text we needed. Expanded that to legible, typed it into my laptop, printed it, had the friend come to me to sign it.

Affadavits from the other 16 people involved arrived as email drafts for our review followed by signed paper copies, no drama.

My attitude toward the closed world of Apple hasn't changed!


John, sorry to take this out on you! It just hit me in a freshly sore spot. That iPad (and its owner)'s foolishness cost me a day of attention and frustration during a tight deadline.

Sorry guys for the 'do-suck' diversion.

 

[bcp]

That was harder than it needed to be.



Bruce

 

[California]

That was harder than it needed to be.

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Bruce

An iPad can do that after she typed in some text? How?

I do that (similar) from several environments on a pc but I couldn't convince her to find some way to 'save as .DOC or preferably .RTF' from her iPad. Maybe I should have said 'export'. Her sister with decades of Mac experience had no clue.

Seems to me the process should be: compose on iPad, send to Mac, then save (export) as RTF from the Mac, and email that RTF to me as an email attachment. I made no progress at all trying to explain this to them.


Still ranting! I learned after several years that the .jpg photos of family events that I had been sending as email attachments to a relative couldn't be opened on her Mac. I tried everything. Finally put the photos into a multi page PDF and now, finally, she thanked me for making them visible.

 

[bcp]

Apple/Mac programs seem to be dropping "SAVE AS" and replacing it with "EXPORT."

That screen grab was on a desktop Mac. I don't know about the iPad version of Pages.

Bruce

 

[sodamo]

Mac easily translated to PC 30 years ago (SoftPC or MacLink), iPads, macs still do. The hardest part back then was finding a competent IT that didn’t feel threatened, so standard response was it couldn’t be done.

Perhaps you need to upgrade your “experts”.

My apologies, I forgot that the underlying document had come from a PC and imported to my iPad. I can also access it on my Mac.

 

[California]

How do I receive a .pages email attachment on my pc and transform it - using the pc - to something readable? I've already determined that the iPad user, and the long-time Mac user, I dealt with never heard of 'Export'. And never heard of filetype suffixes.

So it was up to me to make the .pages attachment readable after I received it.

 

[sodamo]

Google: use pages on windows
Plenty of links