My little netbook acts the way my PC used to. I turned it on and after it found the network I went to one of my son's several fabulous sites where he displays beautiful photos of birds. He is the most avid birder imaginable and he has become an excellent amateur photographer. He has an extremely expensive digital SLR camera, long distance scopes and lenses and macro lenses. He is also proficient in Adobe Photo Shop. I know his large pictures are fairly big files. They snapped onto the screen faster than I could look at them in a book by turning pages. I KNOW my PC is the problem. Knowing what is causing the slow downloads is enough to make me get past being annoyed. I will work on all the suggestions to speed up my Dell and stop cursing TDS for a slow DSL. Nancy

1) Better search. The current search is not only limited, but buggy (it doesn't return all matching results, even if the posts are recent, for example). 2) Ability to search multiple areas at the same time without searching the entire forum (for example, just Home Decorating and Paint, or Bathrooms and Plumbing, or Building a Home and Remodeling, or Appliances and Laundry Room, etc.) 3) If you're on That Home Site, search should default to THS, not to GardenWeb (this should be a trivial fix). 4) Additional subject areas for topics that always get a lot of questions (Fences and Walls, Roofing, Contractor Disputes, etc.). 5) GW should host its own photos so they don't disappear later -- it's so frustrating to read a thread and not be able to see the photos that go with it, or to have to create yet another account to log into a separate photo site. 6) A simpler way to add a link to a post 7) The ability to add multiple links to a post 8) The ability to designate certain posters as favorites so you could easily see their recent posts (your favorites list should be private, though). 9) A dashboard where you could see your recent activity (threads that you've started, threads in which you've recently posted messages, your watched threads, postings by your favorites, your clippings, etc.) so that you don't have to use search or go to your profile to find this information each time you log in The ability to set up rules for alerts. For example, you could set a rule that sends you an alert whenever mythreedogs (one of the Home Decorating rock stars) posts a photo. No limit on saved clippings Very often, posts aren't very helpful because the reader doesn't know where the poster is located. (This is also true on THS, not just on GardenWeb.) To solve this problem, GW should require all members to provide their zip code, which members could keep hidden if they choose. No matter whether a member's zip code is hidden or visible, GW should ALWAYS display that member's hardiness zone on their profile and posts, as well as a GENERAL description of their location. Members should be able to control just how specific the geographical description is (Greater Boston, Massachusetts, or New England, for example). Ability to edit your own posts and to delete posts that no one has clipped Please recruit forum moderators who would have to the power to delete inappropriate posts and to edit other people's posts (for example, to correct misspelled words in the subject line that would prevent readers from finding that thread The ability to tag threads as helpful or inappropriate The ability to select a font. The ability to control how GW appears on mobile devices

Raven, these are the sorts of things I've been reading about about SwiftKey. I wonder if the problem is specific to the N7....? I was going to buy the $3.99 version 3 for tablets. Please fix the issue of erasing on tablets (tf300). When pressing the back key to erase the app goes crazy and starts retyping whatever was typed last. This makes the app almost useless since the smallest of mistakes can not be corrected unless by changing back to the Asus keyboard. Solid 5 stars when an update fixes this. The space and backspace doesn't function at certain times on my nexus 7. It's very frustrating. I understand this problem has been stated. I'll be disabling swiftkey until it's fixed. This was the first purchase I made on my Nexus 7 and I have updated everything but this will not take. Brought it to dev friends to see if I am a moron, good news is I am not, bad news is It still doesn't work. Any direction would be greatly appreciated.

Jkayd, please don't let the complaints and criticisms of a few to deter you from joining in and giving your thoughts and opinions. When some poster admit to, "long time lurker, first time poster", I just don't get it. The fun of this place is to be able to vent your feelings, give your opinion and get feedback. It should be a place where everyone feels comfortable. Along those lines, I once vented something that very minor, I wanted to know opinions about going to a neighbor's son's graduation party. We received an evite just a week before. I was taken aback getting an invitation so late for a party that was obviously planned so far ahead. Anyhoo, one poster felt I shouldn't have posted something so trivial! But over all I liked the advise I received and made my choice accordingly.