Wednesday 21 March 2018

Alienwork IK watch review

Hi folks,
This is my review of the Alienwork IK stainless steel watch, if you read below you can also get a discount if you order using my discount code!
The watch comes in great packaging which you can use if you're giving the watch as a present, it's inside a protective plastic pouch and then inside a soft folding wallet, you can see them below:


The watch itself is really well made, and feels 'solid' which probably comes from the fact that it uses a stainless steel casing and watch strap.
I'm not normally somebody who wears a watch, so I don't like something that feels too heavy or restrictive on my wrist (In fact I'm really weird about anything touching my wrists, but that's another blog entry!) so I was a little weary when it arrived and I felt it had a bit of weight to it, and the metal strap.

However, I'm really impressed! I've been wearing it for several days and I've not noticed any discomfort or really found any issue with wearing it. I've adjusted the strap down to my very thin/narrow wrists. The strap adjusts very small, you unclip it and move the adjustment down as far as you want, so if it fits me, it'll fit anyone!
The watch keeps time beautifully and is very stylish, looks good, especially the one I got in all black with the milanese band.


All in all I'm really impressed with it, and wearing it every day now, which for a non-watch wearer is a huge improvement!

If you'd like to order one then you can using the Amazon link below:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01D8KBMUU
And if you use the discount code: L7K45I3S
You can get 50% off the product cost! Which makes it really good value too (RRP around £20)

Note: This was a sponsored blog post from Alienwork

Thursday 15 March 2018

MightyText for tablets on android

I've been using MightyText for a while now, it's an app you install on your phone and register with, it then sends your SMS to their servers and you can login to your account from your browser and send/receive messages.
It works really well, just does what it's supposed to, and despite that meaning 'they' have a copy of all your text messages, it's a great idea and I use it regularly to type a message from my computer instead of phone screen.

Therefore when I needed an app for my tablet I went for MightyText for tablets, thinking this is great, an app for the tablet that will work the same, let me send and receive. However, everytime I tried to use it, you couldn't see the messages as the screen was so cluttered:


This is the popup window that appears when a message comes in. The text of the message is missing, it should appear below the time and above the "Type message" prompt, but due to the screen being in landscape orientation it appears like that.

If you then open MightyText itself you see messages, but again not much room:


You can make the message out this time, but only the first line of it. If you then go to reply the keyboard then squeezes the screen so none of the message is visible.

This initially just looks like how the dialogues are generated and perhaps the font/text being used. I therefore contacted MightyText about it:

17/02/18:
    Hi, the view on the tablet app causes messages to not be visible due to a
    very small message window due to all the other dialogues.
    I've attached a couple of photos showing both the popup message alert and
    the main window.
    Please can advise how to fix this display problem?

And I got a reply from their tech support:
20/02/18:
Sorry to hear that. Just confirming, is your Tablet in landscape mode when you 
see this issue?

Which I confirmed, and I then received this reply:
20/02/18:
Got it, this is currently the expected behavior. We may change this in the future.

So that's it, basically they know this, they do it on purpose (Expected behaviour?) and that they aren't really doing anything about it.

Really disappointing this, so I'm on the lookout for a similar app that will work correctly on my tablet screen.