Bank of America are making a change to their website so dramatic they need to continually remind me about it—starting six months in advance. What…
For years, my photo management workflow has involved: Importing my photos into whatever Mac application I was using at the time—beginning with iPhoto, then later…
This would have made for a decent avatar photo, if not for the bee.
GoldMoney, an online service that allows consumers to buy, hold and sell bullion gold, recently announced a series of enhancements, including a debit card that…
Yesterday the 2015 Blitz Chess Championship of the Spanish province of Cádiz took place about an hour’s drive down the coast from Marbella. Unlike other…
A couple of days ago, I wrote about Garmin losing their way in UI/UX design. Then yesterday, I tweeted a feature request feature request to…
This morning, when my wife and I took off on our trail run, I started my exercise timer app. A few hours later, we returned…
After years of using Siemens phones at work, I replaced the last phone with this one from Philips—and as a consequence I’m going to lose…
From the design of recent Garmin products, I’m guessing they fired their UI/UX team and delegated this activity to overseas outsourcing or something. To understand…
Clicking through from Google Finance to an article about Apple at the ValueWalk website, my reading was rudely interrupted by the honking-huge interstitial modal popup…
In my daily work, as well as the maintenance of three blogs, I frequently need a tool that allows me to conveniently share files and screenshots. This article discusses my search for that elusive perfect app.
In a recent update we made to a customer’s software system, a bug was discovered, which led to a discussion about (a) why the bug wasn’t caught during testing and (b) why we charge them to fix the bug.
Given our business model, this is a discussion that occurs from time to time, and so I decided to capture our viewpoint in the form of an article I can refer to as needed.
This infographic shows the relative safety of various travel means.
Here in Spain, I can pay for parking with my Smarthphone. With my Smarthphone. Trying to pay for my parking this way actually turned out…
For many years, I stored the majority of my data in Dropbox. A few months ago, however, I migrated to BitTorrent Sync (BTS), and haven’t looked back. This article explains why.
I received an email today from the Betterment brokerage announcing their new Apple Watch app as, “A smarter way to invest on the go.” Of…
About a year ago, someone in the United States going by the iTunes handle “iPhoneReviewer#2” spent nearly five dollars—three of which ultimately was paid to…
