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For years, my photo management workflow has involved:

This would have made for a decent avatar photo, if not for the *bee*.

A couple of days ago, I wrote about Garmin losing their way in UI/UX design.

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 everyday purchases and cash withdrawals, anywhere in the…

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.

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.

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 window shown below (and impressively “Powered by OptinMonster”).

In my daily work, as well as the maintenance of three blogs, I frequently need a tool that allows me to conveniently share files and screenshots.

In a recent update we made to a customer’s software system, a bug was discovered, which led to a discussion about (a) why the bug wasn’t caught during testing and (b) why we charge them to fix the bug.

This infographic shows the relative safety of various travel means.

Here in Spain, I can pay for parking with my Smarthphone.

I received an email today from the Betterment brokerage announcing their new Apple Watch app as, “A smarter way to invest on the go.”

About a year ago, someone in the United States going by the iTunes handle “iPhoneReviewer#2” spent nearly *five dollars*—three of which ultimately was paid to Makalu—to purchase a copy of our location bookmarking app, Rego.

This article discusses how to track crowd-sourced real estate investments in software like Quicken or iBank.

Dropbox emailed a few days ago announcing that they’ve added commenting, in support of better collaboration.

When designing an online service, always try to anticipate the motivations of potential new customers, and make it easy for them to get a taste of how things work.

As a past user of Reflector—an app for mobile device mirroring—I wasn’t surprised to receive an email announcing the availability of version 2.

In anticipation of Apple’s Q2 earnings call on April 27, 2015, Fortune published some predictions of both professional and indie analysts.

I recently switched from DreamHost’s DreamPress to GoDaddy’s managed WordPress hosting service.

Having updated to OS X 10.10.3 and iOS 8.3, I’ve finally had the opportunity to start using iCloud Photo Library, and here are my initial observations:

In my book, Money for Something we discuss how important it is to “stay the course.”

It began yesterday with a “personalized” email spam from Rand Paul, announcing that he’s running for president, and asking for contributions to his “money bomb”.

We live in an age in which the responsibility for providing for one’s financial needs during retirement mostly lies on the individual.

Un profesor de económicas en una universidad anuncio que nunca había suspendido a un alumno, pero que recientemente había suspendido a una clase entera.

Today I decided to review my credit status at CreditKarma, and found that all components of the report were listed as excellent, except for one—the number of accounts I have on record—which was listed as “Poor”, with the number of accounts being in the ra…

Hardly a day passes here in Spain that we don’t hear news of yet another case of political corruption.

The power of compounding interest can be understood through the “rule of 72”—i.e. the number of years it takes to double your money is approximately equal to 72 divided by your rate of return.

One area in which the United States is light years ahead of Europe is online banking.

Somebody signed up for an account at LocalFlavor.com using my email address (a common occurrence, since I have a relatively common name, and was the first to grab it at Gmail.)

The US tax revenue as a percentage of GDP is about 35%.

In a conversation with the BBC, Motorola president Rick Osterloh had some words to say about Apple’s pricing.

Both my Jeep Wrangler and Toyota iQ introduced usability improvements that have some unfortunate consequences.

Following is a screenshot of the latest Rego reviews as reported by AppFigures.

Taking inspiration from microwave ovens and remote control devices of the late 1980s, I present to you ladies and gentlemen the latest in innovative European interface design—the new Spanish parking ticket machine.

A bit more than a year ago, I posted a article on the Dafacto blog about switching from a Tom Bihn Ristretto to Co-Pilot, as my daily carry bag.

I’m an Anti-Braker

So much of the financial services industry’s value proposition resides on the premise that markets can be beaten.

This dialog box announces that a new version of PDFPenPro is available for download, and specifically asks me if I want to download it.

For many years I was an avid reader of TUAW, “The Unofficial Apple Weblog”, for my daily dose of Apple-related news.

Great collection of commentary by Michael Tsai on the new Photos for Mac app.

Over on Rantbox, I posted a note about 9to5mac killing their full RSS feed, in the same way that TUAW did a while back—which, for me, marked the beginning of TUAW’s decline.

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Well-known Bitcoin-India CEO, start-up entrepreneur, actor and Hollywood film producer **Sykam Srimannarayana Reddy** is offering me $2.97 *billion per month* on a one-time investment of $3 *million*.

iCloud Photo Library on my iPhone keeps reminding me that it’s been 10, 20, 30 days since I’ve last uploaded photos.

The Twitter app for Mac OS X appears to be full of bugs, the worst of which, for me, is that the timeline displays tweets for people I’ve muted at Twitter.com.

A while back, I ran across an article (which for the life of me I can’t find now) in which the author meets with a computer hacker at a public location—a Starbucks coffee shop—and demonstrates the surprising amount of information he can collect by interce…

Some companies can’t be satisfied by simply earning their revenue through the provision of a service.

Today I received an email from Nate Westheimer, founder of the Picturelife service I use to store, manage and enjoy my photos and videos, announcing that the service had been acquired by StreamNation.

On December 26, I requested by email that my account at Virtual Post Mail be closed.

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