Oh, how I hate Intuit. For lack of any decent alternative, I use QuickBooks Online. This morning, when opening the Mac app, I'm notified that an update has happened, and I find this giant

Today I received an email from Skype, informing me that my Skype Number was about to expire, and that I didn't have enough "credits" to process the renewal:

My first inclination was change the

While traveling this past week, and staying in a hotel with awful wifi, I tried working with my MacBook Air tethered to my iPhone 6. The network performance seemed almost as bad as the hotel wifi

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After coming so close last week in the Under-12 category—finishing 2nd due to the thinnest of tie-break computations—Lance (pictured above in the middle) decided to stay an

It's quite unusual to score 8 of 9 in a national chess championship, and finish second. But that's what happened in Salobreña last week, at the 2015 Spanish National Chess Championship, Sub-12 age

Its a weird situation.We created an app for bookmarking places, called Rego, in response to the surprising lack of decent bookmark management in Google and Apple Maps. We thought Rego would be a

The passcode to unlock my 1Password keychain is longvery longand typing that in on an iOS device is time consuming and error-prone.

Fortunately, Agilebits provides two short-cuts:

1. For iOS devices that

I transport my MacBook Air daily between home and the office—closing the lid to put it to sleep, and opening the lid to wake it. Twice per day, every day.

I've always hoped that the Mac OS is

Update — Timbuk2 is really a great company. After posting the story below, the head of Timbuk2 European operations reached out to inform me that the company operating the Timbuk2.eu website is

If you'd like to understand the importance of having a good knowledge of probability theory, consider the following eye-opening example (inspired by something I read at David Siegel's site.)

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