Sunday, March 2, 2014

iOS too far ahead of the curve :(

So apparently as of iOS7 you might not be able to set your carrier settings, like APN etc depending on the SIM. What this means is you arrive in some country, want to use the SIM you ordered so you can find your way to your hotel. But, you can't because you can't enter the info into your iPhone in order to make the SIM work. You have to find a wifi spot so you can download the settings to your phone since they can't be manually set.

FAIL!

On, and you're only allowed one set of settings at a time so you can't pre-download the settings before you arrive.

Double FAIL!

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Google Weather on Mobile is missing today's info



Google added special mobile formatting for when you query the weather. Unfortunately it's missing one of the most important pieces of information. What's the high and low going to be TODAY.

At a glance there is no way to tell if I need a jacket, short or long sleeve shirt or shorts.

If it's not clear from the picture. The high that day was in the 80s. Sliding the slider would show 81 or so around 1pm but the high/low displayed is 65/57 assuming that is meant to be high/low since it's clearly not displaying the high.

Monday, April 18, 2011

Android and 2 or more browsers

Unlike say OSX or Windows or Linux Android doesn't like having 2 browsers installed. Why would you want 2 browsers installed?

Well, maybe you prefer one but it's missing features. For example Opera supports websockets, the built in browser does not. Firefox supports WebGL the built in browser does not.

Maybe you want to keep one browser logged in to a certain account on a certain service and another browser logged in on a different account on the same service. Why would you want to do this? Because re-logging in on any phone sucks. Typing in names and passwords, especially "strong" passwords with upper/lowercase, numbers and symbols is no fun.

But, Android doesn't like 2 browsers installed. It asks "which browser" every time a link is clicked, every time the browser is redirected, and every time a browser is launched. If I set a default for clicking a link to browser 1 then clicking a link in browser 2 launches browser 1. WTF!? I know technically why it does this but it was arguably the wrong design.

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Chrome crashes in gmail


Happened 3 times in 3 days. Took every other google related tab with it.