These Dreams ...
Oct. 9th, 2010 12:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
texchanSpent two or three hours last night learning how to use Dropbox and Manuscript for Ipad, and, more importantly, trying to get the two of them to work together. It was two or three hours of utter and complete FAIL. And absolutely frustrating as all hell, too. Dropbox seems great, so far. I don't have a lot of experience with it yet, but it seems to work well and be fairly easy to use.
Manuscript ... is another story. I had such high hopes for that application. I would love to use my iPad for writing, as I could be out and about and not have to lug my laptop with me. It would make life so much easier. Bottom line seems to be that Manuscript just can't do the things I want/need it to do. The way that program works doesn't fit the way I write at all. Which is fine; nothing is perfect. I just wish I had been able to come to this conclusion without wasting so much of my time on it. The website for the app is beyond useless. All it provides is a series of screenshots, which you can't even click on to enlarge (fail) and a "support" link. The "support" link takes you to a forum where lots of people are complaining about the app and the "support" people are defending themselves and the app. There was very little useful information on there, and what little bit there was took a lot of digging to find. I hate that. So, basically, I was stuck with a whole trial and error thing. You know: "So, what happens if I do this? No ... ?? OK, how about this, instead?" Yeah -- very frustrating and annoying.
After my lovely journey through Manuscript and Dropbox hell, I spent another hour picking up the kiddo's playroom so that we could unfold the futon. Most of the child debris was Littlest Pet Shop-related. I swear, every time I turned around ... every time I thought I had, finally, managed to pick everything up ... there was another pet or another little accessory that needed to be put away.
And so, last night, I dreamed ...
*wait for it*
That I was trying to put all these Littlest Pet Shop pets into Dropbox. But they all kept jumping out and laughing at me.
>.O
Geez. -.-"
In other news, my mother arrives today for a long-ish visit. I was trying to do a bit of house cleaning, but my vacuum started smelling like burning rubber before I finished the carpet on the first floor. So, I kind of gave up. I hate my vacuum. I really need a new one. I still have two bathrooms to clean. *sigh*
Manuscript ... is another story. I had such high hopes for that application. I would love to use my iPad for writing, as I could be out and about and not have to lug my laptop with me. It would make life so much easier. Bottom line seems to be that Manuscript just can't do the things I want/need it to do. The way that program works doesn't fit the way I write at all. Which is fine; nothing is perfect. I just wish I had been able to come to this conclusion without wasting so much of my time on it. The website for the app is beyond useless. All it provides is a series of screenshots, which you can't even click on to enlarge (fail) and a "support" link. The "support" link takes you to a forum where lots of people are complaining about the app and the "support" people are defending themselves and the app. There was very little useful information on there, and what little bit there was took a lot of digging to find. I hate that. So, basically, I was stuck with a whole trial and error thing. You know: "So, what happens if I do this? No ... ?? OK, how about this, instead?" Yeah -- very frustrating and annoying.
After my lovely journey through Manuscript and Dropbox hell, I spent another hour picking up the kiddo's playroom so that we could unfold the futon. Most of the child debris was Littlest Pet Shop-related. I swear, every time I turned around ... every time I thought I had, finally, managed to pick everything up ... there was another pet or another little accessory that needed to be put away.
And so, last night, I dreamed ...
*wait for it*
That I was trying to put all these Littlest Pet Shop pets into Dropbox. But they all kept jumping out and laughing at me.
>.O
Geez. -.-"
In other news, my mother arrives today for a long-ish visit. I was trying to do a bit of house cleaning, but my vacuum started smelling like burning rubber before I finished the carpet on the first floor. So, I kind of gave up. I hate my vacuum. I really need a new one. I still have two bathrooms to clean. *sigh*