What are currently your most frustrating pieces of useful technology and why ?

[GBaxter]

What are currently your most frustrating piece/s of 'useful' technology (whatever your serious or humorous definition of that is) and please say
why, for anything mentioned.

[jase88]

Wirelessly posted (BlackBerry8830/4.2.2 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1 VendorID/109)

My cable DVR and HD cable service. It's buggy, and the signal often drops off.

I've had better luck with the antenna on my house receiving ATSC HD signals over the air.

[Marcster]

My Linksys Media Extender. Sometimes it doesn't feel like streaming movies from Netflix, sometimes it does.

My new Gamin eTrex Legend HCx, but only because the instructions suck.

[EPVQ30]

bluetooths they all break up.

[Saoirse1916]

Our little voice/audio recorder -- I think the batteries leaked a bit and now the thing is displaying only Korean text so it's a bit of a guessing game to get it to do what it's supposed to do.

[iPhoneKiller]

microsoft notebook 5000 mouse and schik razor/trimmer.


both use AAA batteries, of which i scavenge for around the house and never remember to buy

[chrix]

..condoms?

[ikermalli]

Screenflow, the damn movie won't upload to youtube

[Carl G35c]

trying to get VNC to work

[mick4394]

Anything that involves ripping DVDs. No matter how good the program is (Handbrake), it's still one of the biggest pains in the ***.

[djdownhill]

Anything that involves ripping DVDs. No matter how good the program is (Handbrake), it's still one of the biggest pains in the ***.

DVDFab Platinum IMHO is the best......

[brandon.aragon]

Digital signature pads drive me crazy everyday, I sell verizon service so I deal with customers signing them on a daily basis. They work some days but dont work others, cant sign too high or it will clear, freezes up periodically. Some of the issues i can attribute to the person signing but others are just unexplicable

[WirelessAndy]

Bluetooth headsets. Great idea, but like many things, it's a game of compromise.

[ikermalli]

Anything that involves ripping DVDs. No matter how good the program is (Handbrake), it's still one of the biggest pains in the ***.

I love handbrake. It's so easy to use. But it's a pain on a PC, on a Mac, it's one of the easiest things to do.

[mick4394]

I love handbrake. It's so easy to use. But it's a pain on a PC, on a Mac, it's one of the easiest things to do.

I've got nothing against either version of Handbrake. I've used, and like, both.

Ripping DVDs is just such a pain in the ***. Even if the program is good, the amount of time required is maddening. It's like I'm a kid again, making copies of cassette tapes.