I’ve been using Norton Antivirus (NAV) for a long time. Honestly. And not because I worked for Symantec for 9 years. I used it even before I worked there. And I continue to use it even though I don’t work there any longer. But let me tell you, every day, often many times a day, I’m annoyed by this software. I’ve even gone as far as finding a new product that I’m considering switching to as soon as my definitions expire (in a month or so). That’s how annoying this “feature” is. Here’s how it goes:

I started downloading the disk images of CS5 for my reviews today. Yay! Of course, one of the images failed. Hopefully the other one will work. Then I’ll start the second one alone. Downloading Master Collection seems like a bit of overkill. At least I have a nice new BIG hard drive to store the 2 disk images. Then the second image failed as well - of course they wait until they are fully downloaded before they die. But YAY! Second time’s the charm. I got it downloaded this time, and have already started making some edits to a WordPress site using Dreamweaver.

I don’t know why, but I’m interested in puzzles lately, and I thought it would be fun to create an app to let people post and fill out puzzles. Of course, I’ll have to limit how the puzzles work at first, but this should be a fun exercise in planning and implementing a site. And if I’m lucky, I might even have enough documentation at the end to actually get a few articles out of the idea. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. So the first thing I’ll be using is my newest note taking app on the iPad AbleNote. This app appears to have all the features that I was looking for in a note taking app. It’s kinda eerie making that blog post to the universe and then the next day (or maybe 2 I forget when I downloaded it) finding that app. True, it’s not free, but it seems to work better than the other one I was using. (That, while free, now has the “feature” of in-app purchases to try to entice me to pay them, um, yeah…). AbleNote wasn’t $9.99 - yay!