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Wealie is not happy with apple!

Ruth Weal — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 23:38:42 +0000

I’ve spent between 5.30 pm and now, 11.30 pm trying to sort out my iphone 3GS, which hasn’t been working properly for sometime. After getting a less than satisfactory service in terms of advice from the Salisbury Apple store I came home to try to re-load the apple OS. I spent hours of the synching not working properly, locking up itunes to the point that the pc needs a hard reboot and then having to restore the factory settings on the iphone which led to more bad synching problems before I finally finished. All of which led me to the very annoying knowledge that although there was an OS error, the main problem of the fact it keeps coming up with an error message hasn’t been solved!

I’m sorry, but when people say how great Apple is compared to PCs I’m not inclined to believe them! I will definitely not be purchasing any Apple goods in the near future and when my phone contract is up for renewal I will be going with a much cheaper and more reliable Android phone. And as to purchasing a tablet pc, well I will be looking at the ipad competitors and not even considering the ipad.

Okay rant over, time to get ready for a day out to Portsmouth’s historic ship yard and Gosport’s submarine museum with Ben, Dad, little Dylan and Ben’s sister Tessa and his nephew Ned.

Wealie x

An A303 Sunset

Ruth Weal — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 17:01:06 +0000

An on the move post, I just took this photo on the way home from work today, just as I passed Stonehenge. Don’t worry, Ben was driving!

A303 Sunset - taken on the Iphone 3GS - Copyright R.Weal 2010

Just goes to show that even the rubbish camera on the iPhone 3GS taking a picture through the windscreen of a moving car can still capture a great sunset.

Wealie x

Blogging on the move

Ruth Weal — Thu, 30 Sep 2010 20:43:02 +0000

Hello all

This is wealie blogging on the move, well not precisely. Actually I’m in the bath! “How is she writing a blog post I hear you ask?” Don’t worry, I’m not risking electrocution by laptop, I’m trying out the wordpress iPhone app.

It’s very simple to add your wordpress account and takes no more than 2 mins to set up. Once your loaded and ready to go you can read, write and moderate comments as well as writing and editing posts and pages. You can also add new categories and embed photos and videos to your posts and videos.

The editor is very simple and therefore very basic, so unless you code HTML in your sleep, you won’t be using it for complex posts, but it is a great tool for the busy blogger who is often away from their desk. I’d quite like a quick linking facility though – perhaps this will come in a later version. I gave up on the preview facility, I mean who’s got the time or patience to wait over 1 min for nothing to happen – certainly not me!

From reading the reviews on the iTunes app store, it’s clear that wordpress still has a way to go until all the bugs are fixed and it’s users completely happy, but so far my experience has been pretty seamless. In principle the functions provided are a great start and it is a free to download app. However, with a little investment and structure this app could be so much more powerful and I’m sure plenty of users would not mind paying a reasonable fee for a robust and bug free version.

Personally I am going to use it for short sharp posts in the moment and have created a new category “On the Move” for these posts – yes I created the category on the app!

Keep safe friends, this is wealie signing off from the bath x