Squarespace Note

While browsing the RSS feed, I came across this new app. It was released by my blog engine, Squarespace, and looking at it closely, it was a pretty handy app to draft your entry. It was called Squarespace Note.

Previously, I have been using a different app called Day One. The beauty about hat app was it syncs through DropBox onto the iOS and the Mac app. I can draft it on the desktop and it would sync across automatically and appear on the iPhone or the iPad.

So far, it would get uploaded as a draft entry. And you could then put up the photos, and other changes from either the website, or the main Squarespace app before getting it published.

So, let us see how it worked ......

*this entry was drafted in Squarespace Note on my iphone*

Update Crash!

It had been more than a couple of weeks since I updated the iOS software into the new version. Some of my apps crashed, but the worst one affected had been one called 'Day One', which I used as my blogging platform. At least at the drafting stage. It synced across all my devices, and once I drafted the entry, I would just need to upload it onto the SquareSpace server from there.

Since the update, it had crashed big time. I have since found it a pain to update the blog, and consequently, things had slowed down.

As a last resort, I had to delete the synced files and lost the older updates - I still got a backup. It was now back in order. I suspect it was because I had too many entries on the server. It just could not cope with the syncing. It was now back in order, and I would be updating my blog more regularly from now on….

Worth the Update?

Updated to iOS 6 in the early hours of today. And as expected, some of the old apps may not work. In fact, the main app unused for blogging and putting my thoughts together - Day One - crashes completely. There was an update later in the afternoon, but that too crashed. No joy!

But I was sure a path will come along soon for all the apps.

My iPhone 4S did feel significantly faster. Everything seems to zip along very quickly. The Facebook integration was particularly handy. My RSS program worked OK, as well as my SquareSpace app. The apps which tended to crash were the ones relying on iCloud integration.

The camera app worked fine. I have yet to try the panorama feature, but the samples I've seen on the Internet looked impressive.

To be honest, I have always been an early adopter when it comes to updates and software on my iDevices. Yes, it has it problems, but eventually things sort themselves out. Apart from the fact that I was not able to update my iMac to Lion since the P1 software - the main Internet source for my study in Gombak - is not compatible with the new OS. P1 never thought that their Mac user were significant enough to make the investment. Shane on them.

I spent the rest of the afternoon waiting for update downloads for the apps. But on the whole, the extra speed alone was worth the update.

iKlout?

I thought that my accounts had been hacked since fixing out that my Klout score had surged from around 16 steadily towards 51in the past couple of weeks. It turned out that they have changed the algorithm. Damn it! I thought I was becoming an overnight sensation there, but it was merely a change in the way the count was established. Well, Justin Bieber had no reason to be afraid then .....

Irfan and his Dragons

I had a transfer from abroad landing at the Casualty just after six, and I thought I would be late for dinner. I was late alright but early enough to catch what my boys were up to.

Idlan was preparing for hai assessment next week, while Irfan was with his iPad again. He was busy showing me his collection of dragons from one of the games. Over the weeks, I had been spending money buying him top ups. And it appeared that he had been building a town in the game.

Buying games for them on the iPad was not the problem, but the in game top ups were. They could be seriously expensive, at least USD4.99 per go. Not cheap! And the boys could be addicted to them. And over the months, it could soon add up.