Category: Rant & Rave

Rotten Apples

I understand the need for corporate secrecy on some thing but Apple has reached ridiculous. I need a new set of headphones for my iPhone. The rubber molding around each ear bud has pulled/melted/torn off and has left a very uncomfortable edge that has scratched up my ear. I really don’t like driving around while talking on the phone without my headset, either. And from what I’m understanding, some government agency is pushing for the no cell phone use (talking, texting, etc) while driving without a headset rule/law again.

I’ve been very patient about waiting for the new headphones for the iPhone/iPod that was announced either in August or early September (first week of September, if I’m not mistaken). If I remember correctly, Steve Jobs had the thing in his hand and was showing how it works to everyone so it exists. And it’s not like they’re waiting for another company to make software compatible with it before they can release it. So WHAT’S THE HOLD UP??? And why in the world can’t they just tell me how long I have to wait??? I called Apple today and their answer was “we don’t know until you know”. Really?

Actually, I’m sure that’s the case. But why such snobbery over a set of headphones? Maybe Steve Jobs was lying about the existance of the new headphones and what he was showing off was a mock up of the real thing. Maybe they haven’t really figured out how to make the volume control on the mic/answer switch work yet. Maybe they’ll never actually come out with them. Who knows. All I know is I’m tired of my ears getting scratched up by the old headphones but I don’t want to get a replacement pair, only for the new ones to come out the next week (Murphy’s Law, right). I’m all for being an “Apple person” but this amount of patience is dumb. I wish there was a better/cheaper solution. *sigh*

Their only saving grace with me right now is that they managed to get my iPod Mini working again. It did something strange this summer and refused to sync. But now it works so that’s money I don’t have to spend to replace it for my band recordings.

Maxwell’s Silver Hammer

Have you ever reached the point that you’re so exhausted, you can’t sleep? And pretty much brought to tears? It’s official…I’m there. And with still another performance of the musical tonight and a board meeting (at my house) tomorrow. Okay, vent done. Thanks.

Geez!!!

So, I’ve put a bunch of pictures on my computer, cleaned up the color in Photoshop and was all ready to upload the first batch in my gallery when I find that there is something funky with my Gallery and it won’t let me upload anything!!! Gives me an error message. I guess I could try to upgrade Gallery, seeing if that helps to fix the situation, but I can’t find documentation that’s not techno-babble to help me upgrade. Why can’t people give technical information in English???? Anywho, if you have knowledge of Gallery and can help me with this, please email me or leave me a comment here. I think something got screwed up in fixing that “virus” message thing a few weeks ago. Maybe I can call ol’ Mark at iPowerweb.com and see if he can help me…. *sigh*

I’ll upload the pics to my web folder and try to blog that way at some point this week, or maybe this weekend, or maybe next month. 😉

*cough, cough*

Is the virus gone from my blog now? Sorry about that…. 😦

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Turns out it really wasn’t a virus – just some bored person who hacked my ftp password (now changed again) and added a line of javascript to make it look like there was a virus there. I’ve scanned and scanned the files several times to be sure. No virus on my computer and now no faux-virus on my server. Thanks for your patience.

iPod spinout

The hard drive on my iPod 20 gig is spinning out, I think. I know I won’t be able to get an appointment with the Genius Bar today so I guess I’m out of an iPod for a while. I guess this is a hint that I need to listen to the iPod Mini and study my band literature. Luckily, it’s good stuff and I have more CDs to add to that iPod anyways, thanks to my purchases at TMEA.

More on TMEA later. Please think good thoughts for my iPod.

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Yeah, the hard drive spinning out is for real and they couldn’t do anything about it (duh). So, I sucked it up and got a new black 30 gig iPod. It’s cool, I guess. I hate that my engraving doesn’t transfer and they can’t engrave this one unless I buy it online. 😦 I turned in my old one for recycling and a 10% discount. 🙂 New adventure begins….