Multiplatform Mania

With this Interim Director of Operations and Communications job I now have an iPhone....and my Blackberry. If I had a hard enough time holding on to my iPhone before, now I have to juggle two devices. Getting the new iPhone I instantly felt more civilized. Difficult to believe, but in just a month I've forgotten how to use iPhone. It is the same challenge as moving between Mac and PC, which I'm also doing with this job. Add to that moving between yahoo mail, google mail and microsoft exchange server email. My brain is melting.

Crackberry Rest in Pieces

Poor Mr. Crackberry. May he rest in peace. Here he is post-lobotomy. The saddest part is that I can't turn it off so it is going to die a slow, painful death. I was able to pull off my calendar and contacts, thankfully. This is the first blogged photo taken with my icrack. Need to work on the focus and also sending directly from the phone. Mark this as a new era in my information technology life.

Another Technology Meltdown

What a challenging tech day. The rollerball mouse on my crackberry got stuck and so I searched on the web for cleaning options. I found a website that explains how to get the rollerball out and clean it. Mind you, I am not a gentle technology user. As soon as I had the little mechanism removed all the pieces exploded. Plus, there was no little fuzzball clogging up the rollerball like they showed on the website. Like taking apart a car engine, I tried to put it back together but there were extra miniscule parts and the little cover wouldn't fit back on.

Well, time for a new crackberry. However, I have to pay full price because I still have many months left on my current one. Suddenly I had a brainstorm - why not get an iphone (aka icrack) instead? It would synch with my Mac computer and be so super hip and cool.

I packed up all the little bits and pieces from my poor crackberry, that now has a hole in its head like it had a lobotomy, and treked into the City to get an iphone. The guy at the store was nice enough, of course since he was selling me a hugely expensive vanity phone product, but he didn't seem to get the phone setup correctly - or even at all. I had to run to facilitate a client board meeting so I figured I would get back to the icrack later in the evening.

Here I am, later in the evening and I can't get my Mac to talk to the iphone. Are they in disagreement? One jelous of the other? Plus, I can't scroll through my crackberry to get phone numbers and check my calendar because the bloody rollerball is out. To top it off I can't find hte little bag that I put the roller ball into to save all its itsy bitsy parts.

So sorry Mr. Crackberry that I poked your eye and was disloyal in quickly replacing you with an icrack that is spiteful. Ah, another technology meltdown.

iCrack Addiction

I may have a crackberry addiction but it does not compare to the iPod addiction of my two little housemates who are 2 and 5 years old. These little guys are absolutely addicted to playing games on the iPhone. They just get how to use it instinctively. Is it a guy thing?