As far as technology is concerned, it’s been a really rough month around here. But things are looking up!
- Desktop computer: USB doesn’t work reliably; I have to reboot to sync a device
- Blackberry: no longer shares data with my computer
- iPod Touch: I had to learn the delete-and-reinstall trick for applications so that I could update them; OmniFocus blows away its own database if the device is not synchronized for three days.
- Telecom: Sprint stopped working at our office; my phone has taken to dropping calls.
- Laptop computer: Wi-Fi has died; I now have to use an external dongle
- Office connectivity: our provider has “upgraded” some services, resulting in our connection slowing down in the afternoon
- Server connectivity: it got so bad, so unresponsive that the provider replaced equipment at the pole – taking our server down for four hours
- Email: I sent email to BigCompany, to folks I’ve known for years, with known-good email addresses, and got “relay denied” errors
It was the Sprint not working at the office that really got to me … my old feature-phone had absolutely no problems at all. It was nice and reliable. Past tense.
So I was thrilled this morning when something got fixed, something started working right. As of OS X 10.5.5, I can rely on search, in Mail, Spotlight, Preview, and other services.
I noticed when I got many more results in my mail search than I usually did. I double-checked with a particular PDF about mobile web design I had – in the past, this 120 page document with an entire chapter on CSS had only three results for CSS in search. I made it my test case. It now has 70 results. This unreliability of search was what made me take my mail filtering through Gmail (then IMAP back down to Mail).
Be careful out there, folks.
I hope tomorrow is better
Oh Barbara, that’s awful! Now I feel bad for complaining about the Twitter redesign, which has ruined my experience. I’d much rather deal with that than the sort of technological dysfunction you’ve been coping with. Just look at all those third-party products that have to work and play together, though… it’s no wonder we often face tech nightmares.
Wow; I’ve had some technical issues lately but NOTHING compared to yours. Hope that the sunspots go away and everything goes back to normal.