Today, my new matias keyboard arrived. Time to show off my awesome, no teh awesomest setup evar!
First, there sits my MacBook Pro (mid 2009), now equipped with a Crucial M4 SSD (which leaves the DVD drive now hogging another USB port), which still makes it a lightning fast super machine (and makes that cooler pad a necessity, aside from that awesome blueish glow). In the front you can marvel at my new matias quiet pro. Now for some thunderbolt displays..
Yeah, its ranting time. This time for real.
I like companies like Cultured Code. They’re small teams with high visions and polished products. Gaining fame and good karma from guys like me, who buy all those awesome productivity tools to save the hassle of mundane things.
Apropos, things. Good example. Its nothing I can’t live without, but got used to it. Mainly used it to remind me of certain recurring things. Paid a bunch of coins for it. Not a fortune, mind you. But significantly more, than for the average below-2€-app. Thought it was worth it.
Then the product got enhanced, effectively replacing versions 1 with versions 2. No problem on the desktop, easy thing. Big hassle on the mobile side as it turns out. And that really stinks.
Here’s the shitstorm I heaved upon them:
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Hello there, I'm kind of a long-term user, bought the iPhone-App ages ago, used it well along with the desktop app. I'm still owning the very same>>iPhone 3G<<, mind you. Some time ago the iOS app stopped syncing whatsoever, guess because you guys switched to a cloud-base-sync, effectively disabling the old one. Fine, so I upgrade the iOS-App, except its still up-to-date. Ok,delete and reinstall. Which epicly and totally failed, because suddenly Things requires iOS 5 or later. Dudes, wtf? Do I really have to buy a fucking new phone just to use a fucking simple to-do-list-managing-thingie, which I bought for just that simple case?! Are you serious? Just do that damned thing downwardly compatible, as every sane developer would do! How hard is that?! And that isn't solved by an awkward series of steps to execute (hidden behind an awkward series of FAQ&A links) to reenable bonjour-sync.How do I get back that app? And don't tell me to mine that out of my backups. a disgruntled ex-customer -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Well, we’ll see how that ends. Until then, I’m looking for simple desktop-mobile-to-do-list-management.
Update
This is the response I got. Well, no news really..
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Sorry to have disappointed you. Unfortunately, for technical reasons, we can no longer support iOS versions older than 5 (we dropped iOS 4 on August 9). In addition,Apple only allow us to offer the most recent version of Things through the App Store; when we update the app, it updates for all users on all stores – we have no other option. > And how do I get back that app? And don’t tell me to > mine that out of my backups. That is the only way you can get the Things.ipa file back – we keepcopies of them here for our testing, but they are associated with our Apple ID and wouldn’t work on another person’s device. I’m sorry that you have been inconvenienced by this, but unfortunately there’s no way for us to distribute older versions of the apps – it’s all under Apple’s control. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
On the other hand, I can’t find a single reason, why to just drop older iOS versions from the production tool chain. Is it really that hard to maintain downwards compatibility for native iOS apps? Is Apple really the stinker here?
If you’re into JavaScript you certainly know about jsfiddle.net. Now there’s SQL fiddle to experiment with – you guessed it – SQL. Lots of DMBSes supported. Great stuff!
this is the tool-code of demo-scnene’s greatest: farbrausch – if you wanna learn how magic really works this is the place to look: https://github.com/farbrausch/fr_public#
Garmin does some fine navigation products, but obviously the services they provide to deploy maps or update clients are seriously busy. Yesterday I started a map update that seemingly has about 3 gigs of content (which I think is quite considerable, moreover is never ever mentioned), data rate crawling near bottom. Only thing you could stare at would be a one-or-another-pixel-changing-every-other-minute progress bar. Hrm. Is it moving yet? Is the thing stuck? How to know for sure? Easy fix:
People who know me, know, that I’m a friggin cowboy on the command line. That’s even one of the keystones of my hellish productivity. It’s not that I hate GUIs or something, in my shell I can do literally everything, while some UI gives me power over just something. Ponder that..
Nevertheless, to make a dumb story short, there’s just this one thing, that stopped working on the command line, but a crucial one (which forced me into using a beast of a UI – STS, but thats not the point here): starting grails! Huh? Yes, and if you’re interested, hop to their issue tracker and see, what I found ..
fudge out
edit: and that is the end of it: patched in 2.1
(edit: deleted former post)
i switched from trunk.ly to diigo (can’t comment on this fully yet, but it’s definitively more sophisticated)
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