You know what is lately pissing me off the most? Hint - it's not facebook, even if it seems that virtually everyone is on the darned thing and yapping all over.
No. But old, outdated technology. Now, I seem to remember that saying 'oldie is goldie', but when it comes to technology, this saying is woefully outdated. Yes, some of the old tech is still good, even superior in comparison with today one - however there are some bright exceptions - case in point, machine from Antikythera, and the iphones of the newest generation - 6 as I am writing this - are bendier that a rainbow, and not in a good sense. Sadly.
No, the trouble is, when you have old, before-the-flood mobile phone and iPhone G3S just stubbornly refuses to accept the pack of the pics mum had taken with her old, outdated Nokia phone. Cue the rifling through internet, forums and Apple help pages to cure the dumb thing of its affliction, but noo, hafta to go to the specialist to get the settings done. Which for me, is no way, no how, around 21.00 PM to get the things to a master tinkerer. And I already know my awesome (not so in some cases) big brother's answer - Ask Uncle Google or Figure It Out Yourself, and grrr.
The culprit in my case, was an old mobile phone, Nokia C2, which still has keyboard and is notoriously stubborn when coming to manning the pics. I am semi-proud owner of a second-hand Apple phone of version G3S. I am still getting used to its features, however I fell in love with the touch screen typing first, as keyboards on the older versions of the mobile phones always irked me something fierce. What can I say, computer keyboards spoiled me a mite bit too much. But back to the actual case.
Task was, to send the pics from the prehistoric Nokian phone to mine, and then from mine on the laptop and then to mum's laptop. Why the long way? No idea where mum stashed her cable from the Nokian phone, and really not bothering with searching for it and then getting shocked by her devil of a laptop again while uploading/downloading the pics. The plan was simple, only the execution was fucked up nine ways to Sunday and beyond, because apparently, my iPhone balks because it isn't attached to Safari, and Nokian phone has an outdated interface for e-mail, and I had to pick each pic separately to upload it in the email compartment, and even then, I was limited by the space I could stash the pics in. So, instead of some 15 minutes max as I had supposed I would have to use at the beginning to get the thing in order, I used one fat hour and a half to get the things rolling, because of the keyboards, scrolling around and so on and so forth - I am not mentioning the failures before I switched the accounts to send the pics from. Opera browser on Nokia was worthless, as it didn't allow uploading the pics, had to go to separate compartment for email... the whole shebang. /head meets desk/. Seriously, guys and gals, I love the technology - how could I not, because I had to practically grow up with using it in some manner or another, but this one took the proverbial cake.
I sincerely, really hope the next photo session will involve actual photograph machine - mum somehow managed to get hers out of the commission, don't ask me how - so the whole process will be a mite bit easier on my nerves and fingers.
And memo to myself - gotta get her to use more up to date tech, just for the sake of my braincells. Figuring out the un-compatibility of the Nokian and iPhone was really not my favorite thing to do, especially because of the roundabout way I had to take to finally get her the pics she was craving for.
Take care and wishig you compatible tech to work with,
Eirenei
