Crapps: crap applications you use in everyday life

veryangryman

With all the tech stuff we use these days of mixed benefit I thought it would be an idea to hear what people think are the worst most frustrating ones. I'll start. Irish rail. What a load of balls. Can't even buy tickets for most journeys online in this day and age.

Mr. Rager

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Gee Bag

Long range camera lenses.

Those topless pics of yer wan Kate Middleton are barely fappable.

plumbball

I have a modern high tech smart phone and still no-one calls me.

Senna

Every Irish third level institutes's website, hard to find information, then when you do find it and phone them up, "oh no sorry the website is wrong"

veryangryman

Senna wrote: »

Every Irish third level institutes's website, hard to find information, then when you do find it and phone them up, "oh no sorry the website is wrong"

Wow they still do that?

Richard Dower

Gee Bag wrote: »

Long range camera lenses.

Those topless pics of yer wan Kate Middleton are barely fappable.

too true...her boobs are nothing to writw home about, or even look at....very small and average shape, dunno what the fuss is about

Elvis_Presley

anyone with a Samsung phone will know what I'm talking about - Kies.

Casillas

Vodafone webtext...

Matt_Trakker

Viber, useless, kept it for 3 days and uninstalled it

plumbball

Elvis_Presley wrote: »

anyone with a Samsung phone will know what I'm talking about - Kies.

It is kind of useless, you can't upload music using it and its temperamental, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, I just use the cable now.

csi vegas

Senna wrote: »

Every Irish third level institutes's website, hard to find information, then when you do find it and phone them up, "oh no sorry the website is wrong"

Yeah and you should try Springboard :mad: - thing doesn't even load.
You even hear 'waiting music' in your head.

csi vegas

Matt_Trakker wrote: »

Viber, useless, kept it for 3 days and uninstalled it

Hmmm...so far so good for me

*to be continued*

eth0

any one of these supposedly good popular phone applications with a CamelCaseName(tm). Turns out to be just well marketed ad-ware in most cases. Back in my days you used to run a program to scan for such shoite installed on your computer and then delete it and find an alternative.

Now applications spying on you and bringing you targetted ads has become acceptable

Ghandee

Matt_Trakker wrote: »

Viber, useless, kept it for 3 days and uninstalled it

You're not using it right.

Capt'n Midnight

Senna wrote: »

Every Irish third level institutes's website, hard to find information, then when you do find it and phone them up, "oh no sorry the website is wrong"

https://xkcd.com/773/

pickarooney

Ghandee wrote: »

You're not using it right.

I've never tried it but I don't understand how it's supposed to save you money.

dan1895

pickarooney wrote: »

Ghandee wrote: »

You're not using it right.

I've never tried it but I don't understand how it's supposed to save you money.

Send and make calls or texts over a wireless internet connection rather than the phone network.

pickarooney

dan1895 wrote: »

Send and make calls or texts over a wireless internet connection rather than the phone network.

Isn't that what Skype is for?

Professey Chin

pickarooney wrote: »

dan1895 wrote: »

Send and make calls or texts over a wireless internet connection rather than the phone network.

Isn't that what Skype is for?

Skype is based on usernames. Viber matches with phone numbers so it's easier to see what phone contacts use it

Mr Benevolent

Linux - ridiculously overcomplicated to install a simple program, for instance:

su -c yum install 'program'

Da fuk?

I now use it as an backup in case Windows crashes, i.e, about once a year.

Capt'n Midnight

Confab wrote: »

Linux - ridiculously overcomplicated to install a simple program, for instance:

su -c yum install 'program'

Da fuk?

I now use it as an backup in case Windows crashes, i.e, about once a year.

In the windows world you have to find an app.
Then check if it's malware/legit/free/shareware/reviews etc.
Possibly windows genuine advantage and sign up for email

Then you can go through this process.
http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Next

In the Ubuntu world you just mash the keyboard with what you think the command should be and it'll probably come back with something like - can't find xyz , did you mean zyx ? its not installed but just cut/paste this line to install it.

Skylinehead

Elvis_Presley wrote: »

anyone with a Samsung phone will know what I'm talking about - Kies.

It's awful. Still better than iTunes though, what an awful awful program.

Kies Air is actually pretty good though, wireless transfer of everything from files to contacts, yes please.

Confab wrote: »

Linux - ridiculously overcomplicated to install a simple program, for instance:

Da fuk?

I now use it as an backup in case Windows crashes, i.e, about once a year.

Depends on what you need it for. Clearly, you don't need it at all! Linux is insanely useful for software engineers, or anyone working with computers at all really.

mackg

Richard Dower wrote: »

too true...her boobs are nothing to writw home about, or even look at....very small and average shape, dunno what the fuss is about

What's wrong with that? What shape would you like them to be?

Mr Benevolent

mackg wrote: »

What's wrong with that? What shape would you like them to be?

Uhhh... bigger and firmer? If you're a man that question should not arise.

danniemcq

Not technically an APP but at work we are still stuck on ie f*cking 6

ya know the ie6 thats full of security flaws that microsoft have begged people to update?

Yeah that one. And we are in a area that has classified yada yada (insurance) and there are 80000 employees worldwide and the majority of them are on ie6.

it boggles the mind as the reason we aren't getting updated anytime soon is because of security.

go figure

Professey Chin

Confab wrote: »

Linux - ridiculously overcomplicated to install a simple program, for instance:

Da fuk?

I now use it as an backup in case Windows crashes, i.e, about once a year.

I think thats much easier then:
Download
Double Click install/setup
Click Next
Click Next (If you dont have to scroll to the end of the license agreement)
Click Next
Click Next
Click Next
Click Next
Click Next
Wait
Click Finish
Maybe/Maybe not Reboot

previous user

Elvis_Presley wrote: »

anyone with a Samsung phone will know what I'm talking about - Kies.

Whats wrong with Kies, I've used it recently, no hastle.

Ghandee

previous user wrote: »

Whats wrong with Kies, I've used it recently, no hastle.

It's a poor poor poor piece of software.

Update a firmware with kies, then update with Odin.

Let me know which one is less hassle.

eth0

Ghandee wrote: »

It's a poor poor poor piece of software.

Update a firmware with kies, then update with Odin.

Let me know which one is less hassle.

Will kies even let you upgrade to newer versions of android? It once told me my buggy Hutchison 3G-branded firmware was the latest version when it wasn't but Odin sorted it for me.