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Default Who uses a bar code app?


"Metspitzer" > wrote in message
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> On Sat, 9 Jul 2011 12:20:20 -0700 (PDT), Chemo the Clown
> > wrote:
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>>On Jul 9, 11:44 am, Metspitzer > wrote:
>>> My phone is an inexpensive one. I really don't have the need for a
>>> fancy one, but they have some pretty cool features.
>>>
>>> It would be nice if I could store the prices of the foods I frequently
>>> buy and compile a list of how much each store I shop charges for them.
>>> I would think a phone with a bar code reader would make this easy.

>>
>>Just get a little notepad and a pencil.

>
> Yeah. A hand held computer that is more powerful than the ones used
> in the first space missions and use pencil and paper.
>
> Good idea. Maybe I will buy a map too....and an abacus........and a
> dictionary.....and a tape recorder.........



There's nothing wrong with a map or a dictionary. Sorry, I gave my abacus
away. I drove 700 miles using an map and a cat What, you don't know how
to read a map?

Jill