El Oweini's Life

I signed up with Statigr.am today and they sent me cool statistics about my Instagr.am account. I couldn’t believe that it’s been a year since my first post.

And yes, I still remember that Shey and I are the only users over my IG app. I told her to download this app since that time we were so interested with Hisptamatic. Do you still remember those days sis? We said that Instagram is free, so might as well use these filters. But it was too late for me, because a week before knowing Instagram, I’ve already purchased Hipstamatic. No regrets though.

Julie and Julia are the reasons why I have these enormous likes. It’s nice to see that people adore these kids. I wonder who their mom is? OH, it’s ME! Hahaha! Pathetic. Anyway, go ahead and sign up with Statigram and check your stats.

With the help of dear friend Shey, I was able to update my iPhone’s OS on the first day of launching. It took an estimated time of 5 1/2 hours for the update to finish though. I had to back it up 4x because of the system error saying that there’s something wrong with erroneous –50 message (something like that). Aside from that, the speed of the internet was so slow that night. But never the less, I was able to update it. And here’s the first screen shot when I was done updating it.

Video Tour: Everything You Need to Know About iOS 5 in Seven Minutes – Here.

For those of you who haven’t updated their OS, it’s the time You’ll enjoy each features I’m sure of that.

When iPhone was launched 2 years ago in the Middle East (Qatar to be specific) where I used to work, I had doubts on buying this phone. I asked for opinions and comments from friends who are already an Apple product users. I said to myself, I’m happy and content with my that time current phone Nokia 6500 Slide. And I still have my Nokia Pink N73 for music and a Symbian phone so why bother upgrade? I was working in sales. And as time passes by, the number of customers buying these units from us made me feel like this product is really worth a try. Not that I’m not confident on what I’m selling, it’s just that as a sales person (not yet that time the end-user) I felt something really different if I’ll have one of these cool and fastest iPhone yet.

And so for my 29th birthday, I bought my very own White iPhone 3Gs 32gb – until now, I love every bit of it.

Julia learned to sing her ABC’s and the sounds of random animals because of my iPhone. That’s why I’m thankful for the creator of the phone. THANK YOU Steve Jobs for sharing us your ideas. He made things possible with the things we thought not possible. May his soul be rest in peace.

You’re the APPLE of our I’s.

And since I don’t have access to Instagram – and I think will never have the chance to access my favorite app for as long as we’re still here in SAR, might as well think of another iPhone app that has the same effects. I’ve had this app at the same time when I downloaded Instagram. I used it sometimes to edit photos from here, then will use Square Ready then straight to Instagram for sharing (yup! I’m that addicted to Instagram). I love the recent app update, less bugs and much faster than before. One thing I don’t like though, is that you can’t see a preview if you choose any of the lenses/effect. Here are some recent shots of my girls Julie & Julia. Big sister was the one who took the one on the lower left (Julie’s solo). She has an eye for photography.

I don’t have any followers yet. If you’re there, you know my usual username. I love that this app can be shared as well to Flickr, meaning an easy upload to my account. Weeee! I just hope that they don’t block this app in the future

It was here when I first experienced my loneliness, depression or whatever failure you can call it – for not being able to update in Instagram. And now, after almost 3 months of using my favorite app on my iPhone, here I am again, stressed with Instagram. Stressed because I can’t login. It keeps on telling me that it fails to connect to the login server and that I need to check if I’m connected with the wifi. Hayst! I tried all the troubleshooting steps that I need the previous time. It’s been 2 weeks since my last update. I envy my Bebot girlfriends for this. I already submitted a trouble ticket to Instagram Help desk, I hope that they reply soon.

Here’s a screen shot of the error message. If you by any chance encountered this problem, please let me know how to solve it. I appreciate any troubleshooting procedures you can recommend. TIA

I can’t wait for the new operating system for all apple products that will come this fall. Looking forward for more than 200 additional features they have in store for all iPhone, iTouch and iPad users. Click here for more information.

…and for that, I created an LO 2 months ago. I wish I can print out all my layouts. My friend owns an HP Printer and she has all the stocks of hp printers ink cartridges. She prints her own designs as well. As a matter of fact, they recently held a baptismal for their cute daughter, and she printed out her invites using their printer. A very good way to save up and since it’s HP, the result is excellent.

Anyway, Instagram is one of my favorite iPhone app right now. Me and my friends IG all day. A picture means a thousand words as they say. Besides, it makes us all creative and I’m even exploring my love with i-Phonography. So for those of you who owns an apple device, download Instagram and let’s IG all day.

I would like to thank a dear friend Suzanne for hoarding me tons of books tonight. Me and the rest of my friends over Twitter has been sharing books online. Thank God for the technology. I’m starting with Emily Giffin’s “Something Borrowed” and “Something Blue”. Then she recommend me to read Cecilia Ahern’s books. Oh my oh my. I can’t wait to finish the first 2 books then.

First I need to read some reviews about social security disability. There are some evaluations needed to read about. I’m helping a friend to check it out.

Yes, I was stressed for exactly 4 days because one of my favorite photo app which is Instagram was not working properly.

I had to do a troubleshooting just to have it work.

1. I deleted the application over my iPhone and re-downloaded it again.
2. I checked for any updates over iTunes – but it seems that the last update was the one I have already.
3. My current OS for my iPhone is up to date. 4.3.1 so I don’t see any problems with my iPhone itself.
4. I then restored the original settings for my iPhone. Made a back up first then restored back all apps.
5. Lastly, Hubby rebooted our router just to make sure that the problem was not with our internet connection.

So what happen then? Well it still didn’t worked. Everything was working fine except for this app. Oh I forgot that my Gmail email was not working too. It’s not receiving and sending emails. So this made me conclude that the problem was with our internet connection. My best-friend said that the slow connection is probably the reason why it can’t feed any new feeds and and the same time can’t do any updates at all.

And so I gave up

Then the other day, when I was playing Smurfs Village, I checked if the feeds will work. And voila! Believe it or not, I was able to upload 2 photos that was on queue. Then I said to myself, probably it will work now then later it will not. So I didn’t expect too much. The next day, the first thing I did before going off from bed was to check the feeds again – and another voila! My IG is back to normal. It can refresh new feeds and I can share photos once again. So what was the problem? I really can’t tell. But I really guess it’s the connection just like what my best-friend said.

Well, first thing I did was to update my 365 days project. And that’s the next thing I need to blog. I hope this will not happen again – otherwise, I might get stressed again, hahaha! Sorry folks, just addict with this app that’s all.