Continuing in my spammer Hall of Shame series, here’s an persistent (and ongoing) series of spam from Spencer Mains at a company called LiveRamp. Spencer,…
The path less traveled.
Rants — Bitching and moaning
Continuing in my spammer Hall of Shame series, here’s an persistent (and ongoing) series of spam from Spencer Mains at a company called LiveRamp. Spencer,…
Since 2011, I’ve been receiving spam from this company, Designstraw, and always with the same, “We’re looking to take on a few extra projects…” May…
To give you a sense of life in Andalucia Spain, I present to you the short journey from my office in Marbella, to the small…
Makalu was recently hired to redesign an e-commerce site running on WordPress, and implementing its shop using the WooCommerce system. To begin the process, we…
Seriously, this is the craziest thing I’ve ever seen. While updating Java 8 to version 73, the Java installer presented me with this screen —…
The navigation app, Waze, changed their external access mechanism, which broke apps like Rego, that used the old access mechanism. While no fault of Rego, we updated the app as soon as were were notified of the problem. But that didn’t stop a certain Rego customer from rushing off to leave a one-star review.
In dire frustration, I just posted the following to the Symantec forums: I have a mid-2011 iMac, with an SSD startup drive. At some point…
During the past few years, the financial institution CapitalOne hinted at the importance they give to design, through the acquisition of design companies Adaptive Path…
Via DaringFireball, The Deck’s updated privacy statement reads: On rare occasions, we have allowed specific advertisers to use a simple 1×1 tracking pixel for limited…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
The main compartment zipper on my Tom Bihn Co-Pilot zipper broke a month or so ago. To avoid the round-trip cost of sending the bag…
Recently, Flickr introduced a Mac Uploader application, promoting the idea that with 1TB of free storage, Mac users could now store a copy of all…
This morning, my colleague surfed over to Daring Fireball on his iPhone, via the Vodafone Spain 4G network. Here’s what he saw — a strange…
A while back I switched from using QuickBooks for Mac 2012, to using QuickBooks Online. The online service includes a Mac app, which is little…
Each year, American citizens, residents and green-card holders are required to report their interests in foreign financial accounts on the FinCEN Report 114 form—more commonly…
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…
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…
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…
This infographic shows the relative safety of various travel means.
