I'm breaking up with my apps

Okay, it's the final app round-up and I have given my soul to Satan, uh no, wait a minute...I mean to NoteSuite. That's it. I just got confused for a moment.

I've moved lock stock and barrel into this app. And speaking of moving, I feel like I moved four times in the last two months. I tried out four apps and gave each of them my all.  I moved everything, and I mean everything, into these apps to try them out.

I thought I'd found real happiness. But the sad truth is that I have a roving eye. I'd see a new app in an ad and before I knew it, I was trying it on mentally with my eyes. I'd find myself leering at screenshots in the App Store. I'd think "could that app be the one for me?" But I felt cheap; after all, I'd given my life to those other apps.

And seriously, my relationship with my old apps worked for a while. Like husbands, I thought each one was wonderful…at first. I was immersed in their charms and believed I was the luckiest guy in the world.

But then they showed  their darker sides. I'm no fool. I packed up my stuff and moved out immediately. And you know what? It was all worth it because I finally met my dream app.

NoteSuite, with you and Scrivener -- I shall go to the ball!

Sometimes Siri gets drunk

Siri, Apple's virtual assistant, is usually reliable. But every now and then, it seems like she's dead drunk.

First, understand that Siri and dictation both use the same engine. If Siri understands your words, so does Mac's dictation function. I often speak to my iPad in the evening. I'll dictate an idea for a post, or a note for a novel. It's quite helpful.

The way dictation and Siri work is that when you speak you speak to your iPad (or computer), it records what you say and sends the recording to Apple, whose servers decipher its meaning and return text to you. As I say, it's usually quite good.

But when the circuits are busy -- like on a Friday night or, really, anytime after school lets out -- Siri screws up. Last night I tried to input a title for a post. I dictated "These people are onto something" and Siri returned "Are Pontoosuc". See what I mean? Drunk. I think it's wild how wrong it gets it. I mean, are pontoosuc? Well, I guess it got the "onto" part right.

Anyway, if this ever happens to you, just wait a moment and try again. If it still doesn't work, wait ten minutes. That should take care of it.