Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Blogger: hiding the "do not annoy me with a share box" in the settings is no good. It should be on the window. Same for auto-share.

Blogger: Needs a global "don't track my page views" option

Music Manager, just generally buggy and confusing



Then I made my folder, "Upload to Google Music" and told the program where it was.  It said it found 71 songs.  Then it went back to 0 new songs and said it was uploading 0 of 7 songs on the sidebar.  Not really sure what it's doing now.  I guess 7 could mean 71.  It's very odd.

more "Music Manager" annoyance

The program's icon says "Google Play" and doesn't have the Music Manager icon or upload arrow.  The title bar says "Music Manager".

The real problem is you can't drag and drop songs onto it.  I don't want to upload a whole folder, I just want to add a song.  Or maybe multiple songs.  This is the kind of uploading I'd usually want to do through a webpage (like the youtube uploader), but Google Music only has the music manager.  Annoying!

More Google Music Manager Confusion and Why can't there be an option for black icons?

why not an option for all black icons, Google?

so then my mac asks me if I want to run "Music Manager" and frankly it has a good point.  What is "Music Manager"?  Sounds suspicious and powerful.  It's gonna manage my music.  Manage it good.  Then a pop up window asks me to sign into "Google Music Manager".  What is that?  Also how annoying.  I'm already signed into Google Notifer?  Why not use that one?  I can see it, it's two icons down from the grey (annoying) headphones icon (again why not offer the option to set the icon to black.  Look at my beautiful non-annoying dropbox icon that has the option!)  (*also, spell checkers of the world, can you start autocorrecting teh to the automatically?  No one ever means to type teh, though I guess blogger and google docs don't have auto complete for words yet?  or maybe I just don't have it turned on.  Not sure.  Used it once on Open Office, it was creepy but seemed like it saved time.  Wonder how it would work for storywriting.  Think it needed a better and faster dictionary as well last time I used it.

Google App names, name everything with Google or don't. (having standards matters)



on my mac, "Google Chrome, Google Drive, Google Earth, Google Notifer, and Google Sketchup 8 (which annoyingly used a number and added a totally uneccessary folder which contains an application called "SketchUp")" are all grouped together because they start with "Google".

However "Music Manager" from Google Play is not named Google Music Manager and is not grouped with these other applications, making it hard to find.

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Blogger: BUG! Editing Pages causes page to duplicate and wipe out first page

and boy is it annoying.  Yeah.  You read the headline correctly.  In blogger, go to pages, edit page, update the page and it duplicates that page and replaces the first page.  Everytime I edit a page on my website I have to recut and paste the first link.  At first I thought I was causing the problem by using spaces in my Page titles, but I changed that and it's still happening.  It's a real live blogger bug and boy is it annoying.