Lack of latest iWork App support for older Macs

I have been using Apple’s office version iWork applications like Pages, Numbers, and Keynote for past few years. With ease of use and hand-off feature support across iOS devices, I felt inclined using iWork applications more than the traditional Microsoft office suite of applications. However, in 2021 Apple introduced new features and some latest updates to its iWork applications and the most disappointing update being lack of support for older macs. If a user creates new workbook with iWork applications and utilizes the latest features in their latest iOS devices, then the same workbook will become unavailable in older Mac’s and will not be accessible. Even if Apple decides to limit all new features for the latest devices, there should have been an option for users to open the workbooks created in latest version of iWork applications in their older macs. Because, at times many users like me trust using Numbers applications for tracking personal expenses and banking transactions. However, with recent backstabbing from Apple, users like me were left out with no options but to revert to Microsoft office suite of applications. With these recent announcements from Apple about dropping support of iWork applications would force its legacy users to switch to reliable Microsoft office application. Read more such articles from posts published in “G R Team Sites”

MAC's Time machine should enable online backup

I have been using for MAC operating system as my primary device for an exceptionally long time and have also faced situation, where my MacBook pro had died couple of times due to accidental damage. However, most of the times my time machine backup has always been the redeeming quality for me to restore my lost files and office documents. In recent times, making time machine backup in external physical hard drive have been the most frustrating and complicated process. Following are my concerns regarding time machine back up option enabled only on external hard drive: 

• Physical hard drives getting damaged or corrupted: Time machine backup option in MAC is available to enable users have their system or important files backed up and help them during accidental damage or system failures. At times, when the system failed and you wanted to restore your files from time machine, the hard drive might be dead due to accidental drop and at challenging times the time machine files may be corrupted due to interruption on backing up files. These situation makes time machine backups unreliable and pointless during accidental damages. 
• Carrying physical hard drives during travel: The accidental damages can happen at any time and often the accidental damage happens on the travel. Most times, MAC users will not be carrying their physical hard drive on the go and the time machine backup drives are stored in their desk. However, when the accidental damage happens on the road, the pain of recovering important files and data for work is frustrating and most complicated process. 

To overcome above scenarios, Apple should enable users to back-up their MAC through time machine to online drives and help users with seamless data recovery. Please feel free to check out the "G R Team Sites"

Events of dropping and broken mobile phone screen

It has been long time since I have posted about few activities happening in my day-today life and this post is going to be one such post. In this post let me split the sections into two distinct categories, action section, reaction section and verdict section. 

• Action: My wife had been using android phone for past couple of years and the phone seems to meet my wife’s requirement and for her day-to day activities. All was going well until one fine day, my wife dropped her phone accidentally and out of all her drops, this drop had shattered her phone’s screen and it was completely dead. 

• Reaction: We were completely shell shocked with the phone drop accident and started to look at alternative solutions available for us. With COVID restrictions and shop lockdowns, we had to take immediate resolution to make phone work again and checked with nearby mobile store of the possible solution. The mobile store convinced me for screen replacement and had no other possibility to get it replaced. 

However, all did not work in my favor and to know more about the complications with screen replacement, continue to check out the articles published in G R Team Sites.

Features should be added or unavailable in Mac Numbers

I have been trying to use Mac's numbers as replacement to traditional Microsoft office Excel applications. However, I feel few restrictions while using the applications and Excel application was comparatively eased to use. Let me list down the constraints I faced while using Numbers in MAC system and how Apple can address these concerns to help users like me to migrate completely from Excel application to Numbers. 

• Lack of Sort & Filter options: For most times, I feel frustrated, without filter and sort options and most times I export file as Excel to sort or filter rows to make informed decision. I understand Numbers support sort & filter options, but those options are mostly complicated and hard to use to extract insights from the data. 
• Copy/paste with Transpose option: Excel has unique possibility to convert rows into columns and vice versa, while copy & transforming the data into the Sheets. However, Numbers lack this feature and often I import the data into rows or columns from Excel into Numbers to make business insights
• Customizing Toolbar: While working in Excel, the ribbon includes all-most complete set of functions are available with touch of a button. However, in Numbers it usually takes a while to get used to the functions and few functions are little bit complicated to get used to it. 

Above are all my observations while using Numbers on my Mac and Excel applications with similar requirements and on same data sheets. Hope, Apple produces a unique solution to address above constraints and enable users like me to completely port to Numbers. For more such articles, please feel free to check out the G R Team Sites.

Get shopping information on Shapewear wholesale products

With lockdown restrictions being lifted down across countries, the parties and get together days are back. However, for most women getting into shape post lockdown have been the most frustrating and tiring process. The easier and smarter solutions for women to get into shape would be try out shapewear products out there in the market. The love-beauty.com is one of the stand-alone and most reputed online shopping networks in the web, helping users to find affordable and reliable shapewear products at surprisingly affordable price. The lover-beauty.com, online shopping network is known for offering shapewear products at wholesale price, that no other competitor in its class could offer. In this article, I would like to detail wholesale waist trainers product available from lover-beauty.com online shopping network and will list down its features & exclusiveness.

The Rainbow Reflective Double belt waist trainer from lover-beauty.com would be smart choice for people who were looking to find reliable shapewear product at an attractive price. This high-compression Rainbow Reflective Double Belt Waist Trainer Custom Logo gives you stunning hourglass curves the moment you put it on and has following exclusive features

• The belt is designed with YKK zipper for closure and the metal element is corrosion-resistant, durable, and are easy-to-use.
• The seven steel bones in the belt are used for staunch support and reshaping effect on the waist, allowing flexible movement.
• Double belt is designed to strengthen the compression effect on tummy to control the bulginess and enables waist trimming.
• This belt is made of 3-layer compound fabric
• 96% cotton + 4% spandex 
• 100% latex
• 8% spandex+92% polyester
• The outer layer of the waist trainer is made of rainbow reflective fabric to ensure the safety during night like walking, running, and other aerobic exercises

In addition to the above listed features and exclusiveness, the lover-beauty.com online site also has wide collection of unique designed shapewear and waist wear products. If you were ever looking for right place or reliable online shopping network to get shapewear wholesale, then lover-beauty.com would be the right place to check out.

What are the advantages of Amazon Prime Music?

I use AirPods Pro for listening to music and in recent times, I had fluctuation of switching music platform to Apple Music due to its lossless and Dolby Atmos support. However, I wanted to detail out the advantages of why I selected Amazon music as my preferred platform. Following are the advantages of Amazon music 

• Prime benefits: The primary reason for me to select Amazon music as my preferred online music platform was due to its affordability and exclusive prime benefits of unlimited shopping. 
• Large music catalogue: Another most important preference for me while choice of online music platform was large and old music collection. Amazon music however, had one of the largest and wide collection of music in its catalogue. To sum it up, Amazon music had few oldest and diverse collection of regional music than Apple Music and it was a major selling point for me. 

Above listed considerations were driving me to opt for Amazon music as my preferred online music platform and for more such articles, please feel free to check out the G R Team Sites.

Suggestions for selecting best IT vendor support

For a long time, I was planning to buy health wearable to monitor my health condition and to stay ahead during this COVID situation by monitoring heart rate and blood oxygen levels. So, in this post I want detail out the rationale behind my decision and my personal views on Watch wearables. 

• Heart rate monitoring: It is one of the most standout feature in the Watch wearables and with recent studies confirming their accuracy, the need for heart rate monitoring device is a must have for adults to avoid any heart related companions in future. 
• Blood oxygen calculator: With recent COVID complications and its adverse effect on impacting blood oxygen levels, having wearables to constantly monitor those levels are much needed. Most wearables are performing very well on detecting blood oxygen levels and they are major boosters in detecting COVID early and helps in reducing fatality.

The wearable advantage does not stop with above listed highlights, has much more features added, and I would like to detail more about those features in my upcoming blog posts published in G R Team Sites.

Roasted in the onsite call because of my Manager

As told in the earlier post that I was looped into a large opportunity and the most frustrating part was that my manger will also be working along with me. Soon after the kick-off call for the large opportunity, I was about to take a quick break and without leaving a minute break my manager called me up and was listing some 5 different talks to be completed in 2 mins. I was like, is my manager out of his mind, as all the activities that my manger was detailing can wait and there were other important activities to be completed before my end of the day. However, with no options left for me, I had to work on all the tasks listed down by my manner and had no time left to work on the actual tasks listed down by on-site leaders. As the day ended, we had hands session with the on-site team to take over the activities left over by our team. The call started and for first few mins we were detailing on the plan for the opportunity. Later, when my manger started to detail the activities completed during our offshore time, the on-site lead got furious and was blasting us for working on unnecessary items and wanted to complete only the activities listed by them. To know more about how I managed these pressure activities and with idiotic manager, please feel free to check out the blog posts listed in G R Team Sites. 

What is the role of Project Team in IT context?

The entire success of the IT projects depends on the team that works in the ground and ensure all the concerns are addressed in timely manner. The complete execution of the IT project is centered on the project team, which comprises of the business users, IT analysts and different functional consultants. The team brings together their previous expertise, business process knowledge and the product knowledge in developing solutions suited for the business requirements. Typical roles and ownership of the project team are detailed as follows 

• Articulate and document business requirements 
• Execute tasks assigned to them by the OG and PMG and updates back on the status of execution 
• Work towards adhering and achieving project quality standards/goals 
• Build and test solutions to ensure they meet the business requirements 

If you are looking to get more information, find out more such posts available at "G R Team Sites"

Canceled Airpods Pro order and placed a new order

Only after placing an order for my Airpods Pro, I realized that, I have not applied my coupon code and the price has marginally decreased after placing my order. However, I did not mind the price increase nor not using coupon code, I wanted to get the product as early as possible and, I was expecting to get a discounted price for the iPhone 11. To my surprise, the price of the iPhone 11 has not even reduced a bit, and I have no option left, other than wait for a discounted sale on other shopping sites. Now, I can either cancel the Airpods Pro order altogether, as I would not have an iPhone for seamless integration or still get Airpods Pro at a marginally higher price and use it alongside my iPad. Finally, I made my decision to cancel my Airpods Pro and canceled my order with a heavy heart. Out of nowhere, within a few minutes, I found another stunning deal at the most affordable price under my budget, with a coupon code applied, and without even wasting a second, I placed the order at the best price possible. To know more, please feel free to check out the posts in "G R Team Sites"

Get your favorite Shape-wear products online

In recent times, for most people getting quality and reliable sportswear products from online sites have become the most frustrating and tiring process. There may be wide range of online shopping sites out there in market, promising offer quality and unique collection of sportswear or shapewear products. However, most online networks lack quality of the product and may have expensive price tag. So, make sure that you check out reliable and trusted online shopping network like FeelinGirl. The FeelinGirl is one of the stand-alone online shopping networks helping users to find unique collection of shapewear and sportswear products for users, that no other competitor in its class could offer. To help our readers further, we have listed couple of products from FeelinGirl online shopping store and has listed down its benefits. 

If you are looking for quality waist trainer thigh trimmer, then Double Strap Waist Trainer Vest from FeelinGirl would be the right option. The all latex, DOUBLE strapped waist vest with zipper was created to sculpt your curves grasping all the back fat, while creating an hourglass figure. The product also helps you to cover your entire midsection, down to your hips and around your shoulders, and also ensures cover for complete back. The product was designed to create the curves you desire and also to decrease love handles and lose inches along your waist. Its unique design also includes enhanced two straps that help you to discard stubborn bottom belly fat. 

In addition, the FeelinGirl online shopping store also help users to find shape wear and sportswear products with unique designs. The Women's African printing latex waist trainer for women would be the right option for people, who were looking to find designer-based shapewear products. The product features African flower printing, the Double belts design in the product provide super control of abdomen and waist, the product core was made of latex, which helps in weight loss and waist sculpturing and shaping. To know more about the product, please feel free to check out the above list links.

My initial thoughts about the Dark Series

I have started to watch the Dark season recently on Netflix and wanted to share my thoughts on the series after watching the first few episodes. I wanted to keep it short, as I have watched only the first few episodes in the series and still have not got much into each of the characterizations. Therefore, the following are my initial thoughts about the series 

• The visuals in the episodes seem to be too dark and the scenes are hardly visible during nighttime. Sometimes, I had to even check my iPad's screen brightness and press the home button to validate if it had moved into sleep mode. 
• One aspect I loved about watching the dark series is its background score and sometimes it forces me to plug in Apple headphones to truly enjoy the sound experience. A big shout out to the background sound engineer and the music composer for pulling it off. 
• Even though the series seems to be in German, Netflix has English Audio options and at times there is a mismatch between audio and subtitles. 
• A Few times I felt some scenes and characterizations were purposely dragged for making it interesting and it was a bit boring and fast-forward was required to keep engaging. 

I will share further thoughts about the series after I continue to watch and explore its screenplay complexity. For more such posts, please feel free to check out the posts in "G R Team Sites"

Double work from my manager and onsite coordinator

So, I was assigned annoying opportunity with the same old irritating onsite team, and to add fuel to apathy, my manager was assigned to support me for its completion. I was expecting anyone else other than my manager for supporting this request because of two reasons, one is that he would suggest the most irrelevant work and the second worrying part is that both onsite coordinator and my manager have ego issues and would often clash on simple inputs. So, on the first day, the opportunity went smoothly with the onsite team suggesting some slides for modifications and some coordination with other teams. At the outset, it seemed simple and straightforward work and I acknowledged the onsite team that it would get completed by tomorrow. However, all these were completely ruined by the manager on the very next day and my manager started to share new suggestions that were completely irrelevant from client requirements. With these new suggestions from my manager, I got two tasks on my list - one is to complete the tasks assigned by the onsite coordinator and the other task is to complete the work suggested by the manager. To know how I managed the workload, please feel free to check out the blog posts in “G R Team Sites”

New roadmap and plan shared by Onsite team

Post previous day early morning discussions with the onsite team, myself and the delivery lead was busy for the entire day addressing multiple review comments shared and in the meantime, we were also connecting with different teams to get their suggestions and approaches. After completing all the task list shared by the onsite team, I have shared the updated version to them for their review and updates. We were hopeful that the onsite team would make some changes to the document as suggested by the leadership team and we would have minimal work to be completed from offshore. However, we joined the next days call and within few minutes the onsite team was notifying that there was change in plan from the client and we would have to revamp our entire solution and approach. We were shell shocked and had no other option but to listen to those discussions and finally before end of the call, I notified to the onsite that we would work on revised plan shared today and post these changes, if there are any further updates to be made the onsite team had to take ownership and complete it further. The onsite team was also acknowledging the fact that there were multiple suggestions shared by client and they were completely fine in taking ownership of the document. As usual it went other way around and to know more, please feel free to check out the posts listed in “G R Team Sites”

Got stuck into irritating work again with old people

After detailing my manager about the interactive work from my previous work, I convinced my manager that I can support for time being and would revert to the new service request once it gets active. Now, I have conveyed the same to the delivery team that I should not be supporting iterative requests from previous work, however since we have a good rapport, I have convinced my manager to give nod for further support. Agent hearing all these conversations and acknowledging my continuous effort, the delivery person looped me into original mail. Only after getting into the main thread I understood the extent of bandwidth required from my end to close this service request. I was shocked to see that it may require the entire day to complete a part of it and may need focus for the next two days. I got completely furious and now I have no other option but to support this request. For continuous two days, I was completely roasted with back to back calls and iterative changes to the document. With all my patience, I was able to close the document in time and while closing, I conveyed to that delivery lead that going forward I might not be able to support such ad-hoc requests. Continue reading at “G R Team Sites”

Oscillation about the nature of work

So, I had to work with the same onsite team with whom I had worked earlier and the same offshore delivery lead with whom I had issues about his nature of the work. I had ownership of setting up a call between both onsite and offshore teams, and the call started with all required introduction about the team and service request details. After completion of the call, gathering all required information for my work, I was bit relieved as I had most of the standard slides with me and only a few slides had to be recreated with the information shared. Now, I had oscillation about the nature of the work, whether it would be simple or would it get complicated each day with new requirements shared by the client and onsite team. Till next day’s call, all I had to do was gather some slides from the repository and keep empty slides for the onsite team to fill in. However, as usual, whatever expectation I had was changed in upcoming calls, to know more check out “G R Team sites”

Good Salary hike and hope for promotions

It is that time of the year, where every IT employee who had put their souls and hard work for past one year would get recognised. Yes, it is none other than yearly salary hike and promotions. As, I have reiterated many times in my earlier posts that I have been awarded first rating in my team and recognised as key player in the team. In addition, during this year’s annual rating cycle, I thanked my manager for awarding me the first rating and taking much courage I requested my manager about my promotion. I was awarded first rating for two continuous years and promotion should be by default. However, there is a company policy, which states an employee should have completed 3 years, before he/she is been considered for promotion. With such twists in place, I was really curious to get my yearly salary hike and very anxious about my promotion expectation for the current year. Check out “G R Team Sites” for such posts.

Decision to move from Airtel Postpaid to prepaid

One fine day, I decided to move from Airtel postpaid to other mobile operator and requested mobile number portability for switching over to new mobile operator. I got the portability request number and within few minutes I got call from the airtel customer support team and the executive who was speaking, convinced me that it would be better I moved from postpaid to pre-paid, if my objective of moving to a new operator was high postpaid bills. The point seems to be valid for me and I was checking about the procedure and was confirmed by the executive that, within four hours the postpaid connection would be moved to prepaid and in addition, my child number can also be transferred to prepaid. This conversation was really positive, and I was convinced for staying in airtel with conversion to be prepaid. To know more about it, continue reading at G R Team sites.

Send off to my Team colleague for joining new team

As I conveyed earlier, one of my teammates and friend from my team has decided to move to new team and it really shook me a lot. Now I would be all alone in my team and the work would pile up a lot and no new joiner(s) have been planned for replacement. Finally, the day has come, and my colleague’s farewell day and gift were planned. Since I was in the same ODC as my colleague I had no other option but to coordinate for the gift and e-voucher to be shared. However, the final day has come and till now no person from my team has sent me their share for the gift or voucher. But I don’t want to be the spoilsport for my colleague and got gift out of my pocket and ensured it was ready on the day of farewell. On the farewell day as, usual everyone was praising the work and vice versa and she left for one last time from my ODC, bay and location. Now I am all alone and had to cope up with the loneliness, read more at “G R Team Sites”

Most frustrating week with lot of work load

After acknowledging the new work from the old team with tight deadlines, I got update from the current opportunity delivery team that this opportunity to closed within next one week. To add more fuel to fire, the day they are planning to close this opportunity is the same day where I was planning to take off from work and spend some quality time with my family. In meantime, I conveyed to this new opportunity delivery team that I got looped into earlier opportunity that I was working on and it would get over in next few days, so my support for this opportunity would be limited. The new opportunity delivery team were very kind enough to accept the fact that I would not be available only for next few days and would again support in later stage. However, this irritating team has looped me into the calls and updates, without even checking with me as a courtesy whether my bandwidth is available or if I am working on another opportunity. I was completely pissed off with this behavior and later on I even came to know about one more fact, which made me frustrated to the core. Continue reading “G R Team Sites”

Getting car serviced after much followup

I usually service my Car from one ford vendor and they offer free pickup and drop services. For this time as well, I was looking to book service from the same Ford vendor and I was not able to reach them in any means. I was trying to book service for my car through online and was calling different phone numbers available for that dealers. Every mode to book service and reaching them on phone went in vain and finally I was able to get one Sales representative number from the same vendor. When I enquired about booking service at the dealers, the representative gave me a shocking answer that the ford vendor has shut down due to management issues and I had to contact new dealer for service booking. The new ford dealer had opened the service shop very recently and they don’t have enough equipment to match previous service vendors’ quality and I had no other option but to service the car, as it had crossed the defined service kilometers. Will detail the service experience in another post and check out “G R Team Sites” for continuation.