I have been experimenting with Quickbooks Online for my business, and although it’s clunky so far it’s been a good way to provide distributed access within my team. I was curious about integrating some other automation with it (such as posting payables and receivables from time-keeping and invoicing systems), so I spent some time trying [...]
I really wanted to like it. I waited through a month of uploading slowly to get a few hundred gigs saved. And I tried to talk to Tech Support several times to find out why I get this rotten behavior from the CarboniteDaemon: Hogging CPU while it shows as idle in its control panel Shows [...]
Lately I’ve had a series of encounters in my work that highlight the importance of trust. I’m talking specifically about trusting someone’s technical perspective. The correlation between wisdom and gray hair is not guaranteed, but it’s certainly indicated. Even more than gray hair, though, is a different indicator that I realized must be present for [...]
I have finally moved off Dreamhost for mail and on to Lux Scientiae. After years of frustration and disappointment with DH’s performance and support, I finally lost it over some disappearing emails and their complete failure to respond to requests for assistance in a timely or helpful manner. I had been using LuxSci for spam [...]
I guess that enough years had passed since my last painful Bluetooth experience that I’d regained my optimism. I was foolish enough to think that I could just buy an adapter (Trendnet TBW-105UB) for my Windows XP laptop (HP NC6400) and use my Samsung cell phone (SGH-T719) as a modem on my T-Mobile plan. Easy, [...]
I’m just in shock that it’s such a painful and buggy process to get a photo book printed on Shutterfly, Snapfish or Ofoto. After wasting a painful hour struggling with each, I gave the nod to Snapfish because I was actually able to get what I wanted in the end. But it wasn’t pretty. I’ve [...]
I’ve used iTunes on Mac and Windows, and dislike both for their frustratingly simplified interface. Especially when you’ve got thousands of songs to sort through, iTunes still gives you very little leverage or clarity. I stopped using Podcasts awhile back — I just wasn’t interested enough but what I found to favor it over music. [...]
I just started carrying a Blackberry for the first time, and I am in shock at how awful the user interface design is. I was stunned when I saw the actual message reading UI. And the calendar entry UI. And the message writing UI. Don’t these folks know about fonts? Colors? Readability? Layout? This thing [...]
I recently switched on the new Picasa2 screensaver for Windows. I love it because I can point it to any album in Picasa, or any label — perfect for displaying random photos from a favorite set I’ve tagged already. But here’s the bad news: Google logos start showing up at odd intervals, superimposed on your [...]