Manual app updating, prior to iOS7, was beneficial to developers as a mechanism to notify their customers that a new version was available¹. Since Apple doesn't otherwise provide developers with a

About a year ago, I opened a checking account at Simple.com and made a small deposit. I'd seen a lot of chatter about the new service and its plan to fundamentally change personal banking, and

Ryan Singer wrote on Twitter:

Affordances are tricky to pin down because they're nested. A hammer affords driving nails; its handle, swinging; it's grip, grasping; etc.

I've always thought of

As an amateur photographer, there are three simple things you can do to dramatically improve your photos.

The first two relate to the most important aspect of photographycomposition. No matter how

In convenient chronological order:

1. At the Makalu office in Marbella, we used to have Jazztel 6mb ADSL.

2. A Movistar salesman offered us 30mb VDSL for only a bit higher cost, if we'd switch from Jazztel

I can hardly express how excited I was to see this purple-toned, ugly-ass bar now appearing at the top of the otherwise-beautiful Flickr website. They do that at Google, right?

Computer chess engines compute a factor for any given board position, which indicates which player's in the lead and by how much. "1.5" would indicate that white is winning by about a pawn and a

The 2013 Spanish Chess Championship kicked off today just down the road in Salobreña. Of the 140 participants, our son started the event ranked 2nd in the sub-10 category. At the end of the day, he

A couple of days ago, I discovered that my CrashPlan log (in /Library/Logs/CrashPlan/engine_output.log) had gotten huge—over 60GB. Googling, I found this article that describes how to increase

Have you ever noticed that when surfing around the web you'll often see big banner ads to websites you've recently visited? That's due to this company—AdRoll. AdRoll-enabled sites set a cookie when