Karenism

I’ve had my new phone for 2 months, and I just figured out how to get photos off of it. (I’m the type of user who tends not to use nifty extra features of most products) The detailed karen-proof instructions for connecting a motorola razr with mac os x via bluetooth

Though I’d much rather carry a camera with me all the time, I often forget it, so the phone is a workable substitute. It’s been difficult to upload the video from the phone to jumpcut. I don’t think the transcoder works for 3gp format, so I tried to convert it with divx converter, but it is an unsupported format. Fortunately, it’s supported in imovie (ya for macs!), and I just used imovie to export the file in mp4. It was absolutely a pain in the ass.

I would have gotten really frustrated if I had no experience dealing with video files.

Groovr has lately been my favorite topic of conversation. It really scares me, but it is strangely compelling. The scary part is that in the future I can see my phone automatically sending my location to some centralized site. Hello big brother. However, the people who lived in the wild west several hundred years ago probably would freak out about the gun control laws of today. Hospital records? Drivers Licenses? We willing give up private information for certain benefits with the understanding that it is closely guarded. On groovr it makes me uncomfortable that I can easily look up where someone lives just because they ‘check into’ “home”. Naturally, the site allows you to create a private profile so that all your activities are only seen by friends. I can’t imagine it would be hard for a court to demand this data and get it.

I am drawn to “checking in” for a reason I cannot clearly articulate. There is just something interesting about looking at my profile and seeing the places that I have marked. I like creating the places (by being the first person to check into and name a location) because it satisfies some early adopter-type desire. I will note that dodgeball has been offering a similar service for 2 years. Like webvan, though, they were a bit ahead of their time. I didn’t sign up for that service because I don’t want all of my friends texed each time I check in somewhere. Currently there is no benefit to my checking in to Groovr because I have no local friends. I imagine it would gain popularity in a college setting, where one is far more likely to find friends nearby. My friends will probably never use it. Large gatherings are pre-planned, and calling friends is cheaper than texting them (unless both parties have a texting plan).

EDIT: it turns out that jumpcut does support 3gp format. The problem was that we were so slammed with traffic yesterday (due to the Doritos add thing) that the site was behaving strangely.

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I’ve had my new phone for 2 months, and I just figured out how to get photos off of it. (I’m the type of user who tends not to use nifty extra features of most products) The detailed karen-proof instructions for connecting a motorola razr with mac os x via bluetooth

Though I’d much rather carry a camera with me all the time, I often forget it, so the phone is a workable substitute. It’s been difficult to upload the video from the phone to jumpcut. I don’t think the transcoder works for 3gp format, so I tried to convert it with divx converter, but it is an unsupported format. Fortunately, it’s supported in imovie (ya for macs!), and I just used imovie to export the file in mp4. It was absolutely a pain in the ass.

I would have gotten really frustrated if I had no experience dealing with video files.

Groovr has lately been my favorite topic of conversation. It really scares me, but it is strangely compelling. The scary part is that in the future I can see my phone automatically sending my location to some centralized site. Hello big brother. However, the people who lived in the wild west several hundred years ago probably would freak out about the gun control laws of today. Hospital records? Drivers Licenses? We willing give up private information for certain benefits with the understanding that it is closely guarded. On groovr it makes me uncomfortable that I can easily look up where someone lives just because they ‘check into’ “home”. Naturally, the site allows you to create a private profile so that all your activities are only seen by friends. I can’t imagine it would be hard for a court to demand this data and get it.

I am drawn to “checking in” for a reason I cannot clearly articulate. There is just something interesting about looking at my profile and seeing the places that I have marked. I like creating the places (by being the first person to check into and name a location) because it satisfies some early adopter-type desire. I will note that dodgeball has been offering a similar service for 2 years. Like webvan, though, they were a bit ahead of their time. I didn’t sign up for that service because I don’t want all of my friends texed each time I check in somewhere. Currently there is no benefit to my checking in to Groovr because I have no local friends. I imagine it would gain popularity in a college setting, where one is far more likely to find friends nearby. My friends will probably never use it. Large gatherings are pre-planned, and calling friends is cheaper than texting them (unless both parties have a texting plan).

EDIT: it turns out that jumpcut does support 3gp format. The problem was that we were so slammed with traffic yesterday (due to the Doritos add thing) that the site was behaving strangely.

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