Thursday, October 8, 2009

Task 15--Clipmarks--CHECK!

I thought I was going to be in love with this program/application/diddy when I read the task. I liked everything it seemed like it would do for me. And I went to the video and watched and thought it was magical and I was all impressed. Look at how easy and applicable and wowwww-e. So video, great...signing up...painless...Install...ouch. Not painless. Very difficult and weird. Restarting the computer. Going through Install Wizards. Not being able to find it. The gadget not actually on my browser. Doing it again assuming I did something wrong. Took a long time. Not intuitive. Clipping. Well. It looked all magical and easy to select exactly what you want on the video, but it wasn't really. And you can only clip like 1000 characters, which apparently isn't much of anything. So I finally "clipped" what I wanted. Hurrah. And then I tried to send it to my blog. Which...look around...clearly did not work even a little bit. (It was the first "chocolate cake" recipe result from Google, which is Hershey's.) So. Then I tried to email it to myself. Which worked, but this was the subject line: Delivery Status Notification (Failure.) I don't know why this site is calling me a failure. That's offensive. Um. The only other options are print and save. I have to say that I feel like pretty much every other alternative available is easier and more friendly than this. I would rather bookmark, copy and paste, or highlight and print a selection. And again, I don't feel the need to "share" any of it...and if I did I could delicious it or email the link or what have you to those individuals who would find it interesting. I'm not self important enough to think everyone cares about what I'm reading online. So I had high hopes. And it fell flat. Sorry Task 15.

2 comments:

  1. Mine didn't work either. Drat 15.

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  2. Doesn't seem to work in Internet explorer...just like 800+ other apps that don't work with internet explorer...argh.

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