Useless extras

[paulos66]

My new mobile has a barcode scanner; I think this will be about as useful as the remote control to open the cd drawer; what pointless accessories irritate you?

[bill preston]

the push to talk on my nokia really pee's me off!!!

[Gromit]

Why can you give star ratings to your own answers to questions you have asked on AB.

Totally pointless except to an egotist.

[paulos66]

Agreed

[4getmenot]

how does the barcode scanner work then? I agree with you have never understood eject ona remote control when you have to get up and get the thing out anyway. The thing on facebook having to pay for a gift so basically a picture to be sent. Why oh why would anyone do that?

[Reverandfunk]

Barcode scanner would be good for when u want to buy something in wilkinsons and theres no price on it.

Would save you from asking a chimp I mean sales consultant...

[4getmenot]

but I thought every barcode is different. Say you bought a tin of heinz beans in tesco and then one in morrisons, same bar code different prices so how does your phone know what the supermarket is charging that week.

[China Doll]

Very good paulos.

Totally useless is the funny little packet of stuff that you get when things are parcelled up. I never know what that is for. And it says you're not supposed to throw it away too. So what am I supposed to do with it?!

Does anyone know what I'm talking about?

[4getmenot]

so surely it would not know what wilkinsons has down on their computers

[Reverandfunk]

Silica gel?

[Ethel]

Ha ha! As far as I know it doesn't work on tins of beans.

It reads 'square' bar codes that people put on their blogs and websites - gives links, email addresses and other information the user doesn't want bots to read. Hugely popular in the far east.

http://www.jasonbradbury.com/jason_bradbury/20 07/04/n95s_barcode_sc.html

You can try it out on that link.

[China Doll]

That's it Rev!

What is that stuff and why??

[4getmenot]

oh so anyone with a barcode scanner can read their details

[Reverandfunk]

It is far from useless China lol

Its attracts any moisture in the packing so instead of moisture getting in say a mobile phone it goes into that little bag

[jno]

sometimes the physical button on the eject jams and won't open it; then is a good time to have a remote as an option. Doesn't happen often, but it can.

[Ethel]

Yes. You know yourself that as soon as you put an email address or any personal information on any site the bots have snaffled it up, ready to use in some way.

This just makes it more difficult - for a while, anyway.

[China Doll]

Oh!!!!

Is that what it does really? I didn't know that.

But why am I not supposed to throw it away?

[Reverandfunk]

Perhaps seagulls at the tip might eat it and explode.

[4getmenot]

I thought it just says do not eat on side of it :-)

[China Doll]

Withdraws sililca gel from useless list