Cozmoslabs is a Romanian company that sells products, through an intermediary company called Avangate, for building WordPress sites. I purchased a plugin from them, subsequently decided it wasn’t for me and requested a refund. I was eventually granted a refund, but only after some frustration and confusion. Here’s the story.
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…
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…
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…
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…
Here in Spain, I can pay for parking with my Smarthphone. With my Smarthphone. Trying to pay for my parking this way actually turned out…
This dialog box announces that a new version of PDFPenPro is available for download, and specifically asks me if I want to download it. So…
Fabricio Werdum is currently the interim heavyweight champion of the UFC, and calls California home. Several years ago, though, he lived in Madrid, Spain, where…
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…
