Thursday, October 23, 2014

Tech Stupidity - Stark Raving Mad (No Arc Reactors Were Harmed In The Process)

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No.  But old, outdated technology.  Now, I seem  to remember  that  saying 'oldie is goldie', but  when it comes to technology, this  saying is  woefully outdated.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 mobile phone and    iPhone G3S  just stubbornly refuses to  accept the pack of the pics  mum had taken with her old, outdated Nokia phone.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Sunday and beyond, because apparently, my  iPhone balks because it isn't attached to Safari, and  Nokian phone  has an outdated  interface  for  e-mail, and I  had to pick each pic separately to upload it in the email compartment, and even then, I was limited  by the space I could stash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

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