A Rego user just wrote in concerned that Rego was consuming 14% of his battery usage: These battery usage stats in iOS 8 can be…
The path less traveled.
Rants — Bitching and moaning
A Rego user just wrote in concerned that Rego was consuming 14% of his battery usage: These battery usage stats in iOS 8 can be…
A couple of weeks ago, I posted a job on the oDesk site. The way this generally works is that members at oDesk will see…
For years we contracted an office security system from Securitas Direct; a complete waste of money, but that’s another story. This one is about Securitas, the spammer.
I was excited to find that Beachbody has released the latest in their P90x fitness series, with the new P90 product. I’ve been a P90x…
Summary — As a Bank of America customer who spends a lot of time outside the United States, I have struggled to confirm my transactions…
Last Sunday we left Marbella for a week of vacation in Andorra. Our travel plans included a flight to Barcelona, from where we’d pick up…
A few months ago, a frequent-traveler named “Matthew Henderson” from New York City signed up at Delta.com, accidentally providing my Gmail email address instead of their own (which is likely some minor variant of mine.) Since then, I’ve been the lucky recipient of nearly weekly email notifications regarding Matthew’s ticket purchases, travel plans and seat upgrades. Next week, in fact, Matthew is traveling to Cancun—lucky guy!
ScannerPro is a wonderful iOS app for scanning and working with scanned documents on the iPhone and iPad. Evidently, and unfortunately, Readdle (the app maker)…
In my search for a lightweight app to satisfy my basic photo enhancement needs, I stumbled across FX Photo Studio in the Mac App Store,…
My livelihood and many of my hobbies revolve around technology. This past week, after witnessing an unfortunate series of technology problems affecting my Mom, I’ve been reflecting on how I take for granted as commonly understood so many technological concepts that, in reality, are not commonly understood at all.
A few days ago, I received an email from “Louis Zha”, informing me that a company in China by the name of “CQT Intl Ltd”…
Someone named Dillon Henderson recently joined the Sony Playstation Network using my Gmail address, and I immediately began receiving two to four emails per day, as Dillon recharged his account and purchased content or games, or whatever it is you purchase on the network. (I guess Dillon’s middle name must be “Matt”.)
A while back, I temporarily needed to upgrade my free LinkedIn account to a Premium account. Today, no longer needing the premium services, I visited LinkedIn intending to downgrade back to the free plan. What a nightmare.
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…
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…
This post is written for the Apple App Store user, “Rumpel5t1”. Since it’s not possible for me to contact you through the App Store, I’m contacting you through my blog. (I’m assuming that by Googling yourself, you’ll eventually end up here.)
For being one of the world’s largest and most active online services, it’s surprising how buggy the Twitter website is.
And so it goes—I’ve now worked with every major telecommunications provider in Spain, and have had serious problems with all of them. Here’s the latest about Movistar.
For quite some time, I’ve been receiving email newsletters from Air Berlin at least two or three times per month. I tried to do something about that today, and I think you’ll find the following conversation with Air Berlin on Twitter to be quite entertaining.
On my last trip to the US, I signed up for the Boingo roaming wifi service. When I later cancelled my account, they continued to charge me for months. Trying to resolve this, I uncovered what seems to be a systematic scam. Read the whole story.
Buying anything online from a European provider is likely to be a hair-pulling experience.
Back in 2010, I commented on Booking’s deceitful post-trip emails, and it looks like they’re still at it.
Right, there’s another one. If you run a website, I’m sure you’ve gotten your share of these:
Hi there!
We found your weblisting on one of the back pages of Google. Wouldn’t you rather be up front? Our experts in Search Engine Optimization can help you become more visible and more productive. A quick email will get you details.
Thanks in advance!
Silvia Abernathy
Excited about the recently released FileBuddy 10 utility, I ended up having a pretty rotten purchasing experience.
It’s been an unfortunate week of customer support around the board.
Last year, I purchased 11 licenses of the Backblaze online backup product for Makalu. Even then, the experience of working with the Backblaze people was a little odd; for example, I had to go through the process of getting a quote from the sales guy, which turned out to be precisely 11 times the cost of a consumer single-license. Whatever.
We moved forward, had our corporate account setup, installed the software, and begin receiving monthly usage reports from Backblaze.
A year later, we’ve decided that we can get by with four, rather than 11 licenses. (Dropbox has made Backblaze redundant for us, to a certain extent.)
