Rant number 159
I have realised that there is an unhealthy amount of computer usage going on in my life! I'm surrounded by the bloody things!
I wake up each morning and check my Facebook on my Smartphone (which is, after all a mini computer (in fact, and to show my age a little - my phone has around 20 times more processing power than my first PC...)) then head off to work.
Once I get to work, the first thing I do each and every morning, is to turn my computer on.
Following this, I then tap away at it for approx. 8 1/2 hours, before heading homewards.
Once there, I tap tap away away on my phone some more, or on my laptop or on the wife's iPad. Even my rant needs to be written on one of these devices.
When did I become so plugged in? Its like some prophecy from a technophobic film. Who now doesn't live their lives around their computers and their phone: very few people indeed.
Its impossible to live your life without it now. Even simple things have computers in them. Your TV's EPG is a simple computer, everything you read in the papers - has been put written, laid out and set on a computer. The buses run on a computer timetable, the financial system is all computer based. There is nothing you can do to avoid it, however old or luddite you may be!
Put it this way, if someone ever invents a virus that eats silicone: we are proper fucked!
Rant over.
Showing posts with label iPhone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label iPhone. Show all posts
Thursday, 7 June 2012
Saturday, 5 May 2012
Rant 126 5/5/12 Subject: Autocorrect
Rant number 126
I recently acquired an iPhone. It took me a while to get one, but now I've got one I love it. It does so many things, has great flexibility. Hell - it even talks to me.
There is one niggle though which really gets on my nerves. The autocorrect function.
I get it that its just trying to help me make sense - but it doesn't half the time. What it does is quite the opposite.
The idea of the thing is sound. If for instance I was to write teh instead of the, it will change it for me. This is ok.
The thing is though that our language is diverse and ever changing - which is where things fall down.
It changes words round sometimes with almost reckless abandon. I had to type the word changes 3 times for instance - because it would prefer to put changed!
And the worst thing of all is that you don't always notice the changes have happened until the text has gone. We've all seen the hilarious and yet distressing results of erroneous changes.
Why doesn't it beep or something or just underline the misspelling (which it just tried to change to miss pleasing - which is rather worrying) instead of being sneaky about it.
It rarely hits op my nerds!
Rant over.
I recently acquired an iPhone. It took me a while to get one, but now I've got one I love it. It does so many things, has great flexibility. Hell - it even talks to me.
There is one niggle though which really gets on my nerves. The autocorrect function.
I get it that its just trying to help me make sense - but it doesn't half the time. What it does is quite the opposite.
The idea of the thing is sound. If for instance I was to write teh instead of the, it will change it for me. This is ok.
The thing is though that our language is diverse and ever changing - which is where things fall down.
It changes words round sometimes with almost reckless abandon. I had to type the word changes 3 times for instance - because it would prefer to put changed!
And the worst thing of all is that you don't always notice the changes have happened until the text has gone. We've all seen the hilarious and yet distressing results of erroneous changes.
Why doesn't it beep or something or just underline the misspelling (which it just tried to change to miss pleasing - which is rather worrying) instead of being sneaky about it.
It rarely hits op my nerds!
Rant over.
Tuesday, 28 February 2012
Rant 59 - 28/2/12 Subject: iTunes
Rant number 59
Apple is a company that makes great gear - like really good stuff (if a little pricey.) I am on my second mac laptop, my wife owns a mini mac. You could say we were mac fans - and if you were to say this, you would be correct.
Although I am yet to take the plunge, my wife has an iPhone, which she loves almost as much as me (in fact, I often wonder if she loves it far more. It's hard to be sure, but she does spend an inordinate amount of time playing with it - the iPhone I mean.)
The iPhone has been a huge success for Apple, and you can see why. Its pretty, its powerful, its functional and all round great. The two downsides then are the price (which is high, but probably fair) and fucking iTunes.
Getting stuff on and off of most phones is an easy experience. Pain-free if you will. You have an MP3 on your computer - you plug in mr phone and drag the MP3 over.... Nailed.
For iTunes however, life is not so simple. Every single feature seems to be made to make things hard - what a pain. Half of the time, anything you buy is encrypted to the hilt - making things awkward and meaning that you can't use them anywhere else. Then there is syncing, a process of almost mythical pointlessness.
My Laptop is my laptop and - my phone is my phone. The two are separate things. As such, there are things I want on my phone, that I do not necessarily want on my Laptop. To Apple however, and fucking iTunes - you need to keep a synced copy of everything you have ever bought on your iPhone on your computer - taking up gigabytes of space for something you will never use. Its a puzzle of epic proportion.
No wonder people jailbreak their iPhones, because iTunes can't do the simplest things right!
Getting voice memo's off of an iPhone for instance can be a right chore - when iTunes decides it just doesn't want to sync.
Then there are the endless updates it needs, at around 50mb a time - seemingly when I want to sync anything important.
I hate over-engineering in all of its forms, and iTunes is a quintessential example of this.
Pull your finger out apple, and let people use the technology they have paid good money for!
Rant over.
Apple is a company that makes great gear - like really good stuff (if a little pricey.) I am on my second mac laptop, my wife owns a mini mac. You could say we were mac fans - and if you were to say this, you would be correct.
Although I am yet to take the plunge, my wife has an iPhone, which she loves almost as much as me (in fact, I often wonder if she loves it far more. It's hard to be sure, but she does spend an inordinate amount of time playing with it - the iPhone I mean.)
The iPhone has been a huge success for Apple, and you can see why. Its pretty, its powerful, its functional and all round great. The two downsides then are the price (which is high, but probably fair) and fucking iTunes.
Getting stuff on and off of most phones is an easy experience. Pain-free if you will. You have an MP3 on your computer - you plug in mr phone and drag the MP3 over.... Nailed.
For iTunes however, life is not so simple. Every single feature seems to be made to make things hard - what a pain. Half of the time, anything you buy is encrypted to the hilt - making things awkward and meaning that you can't use them anywhere else. Then there is syncing, a process of almost mythical pointlessness.
My Laptop is my laptop and - my phone is my phone. The two are separate things. As such, there are things I want on my phone, that I do not necessarily want on my Laptop. To Apple however, and fucking iTunes - you need to keep a synced copy of everything you have ever bought on your iPhone on your computer - taking up gigabytes of space for something you will never use. Its a puzzle of epic proportion.
No wonder people jailbreak their iPhones, because iTunes can't do the simplest things right!
Getting voice memo's off of an iPhone for instance can be a right chore - when iTunes decides it just doesn't want to sync.
Then there are the endless updates it needs, at around 50mb a time - seemingly when I want to sync anything important.
I hate over-engineering in all of its forms, and iTunes is a quintessential example of this.
Pull your finger out apple, and let people use the technology they have paid good money for!
Rant over.
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