Initial impressions of the Overcast podcast app
Since starting to listen to podcasts a few years ago, I've always used the Instacast app. Recently, though, I decided to check out Overcast, by Marco Arment. Having used Overcast for about a week
Bank of America Online—Get ready for a major change!
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 kind of change could be so important? Are you sitting
Auto-creation of albums in Flickr uploader for Mac
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 Aperture, most recently, Photos.
- Organ
On the right of government to mandate what we use as money
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 will allow GoldMoney customers to make
It’s confirmed—Garmin is out the game
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 them.
Garmin is one of those companies whose tweets all end
2015 Cádiz Blitz Chess Championship
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 provinces, Cadíz allow anyone to participate
End botched training data with auto-stop on loop
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 to the starting point, got in the car and drove home. Pulling into the
The Philips phone that’s going to cause me to lose my hearing
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 my hearing.

Every phone I’ve owned has worked in the following
What happened to UI/UX design at Garmin?
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 where I'm coming from with that