Apple's Broken Parental Controls

What’s a nice way to give a kid a limited amount of spending freedom, and letting them buy some things without being able to decimate your credit card? iTunes Voucher – seems reasonable right?

So… redeeming voucher… Enter Apple ID password. Okay. Use camera to enter code. That’s helpful. Plea...

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Well done Amazon - truly awful UX

How to ensure that your customers never, ever… ever want to sign up for Prime… ever:

Step 1.
Prompt user to sign up for Amazon Prime while processing their order.

Step 2.
Customer clicks “No Thanks” (because customer was previously signed up for Prime and decided they didn’t want to pay fo...

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Good luck

To the (I assume) wannabe-hackers who, according to my web server logs, are trying to access various combinations of wp-admin, wp-login and other types of login page... good luck with that! ツ

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Finding your way

Finding your way

We went to Rome over the weekend. Despite the weather (mild but wet), gelato seemed one of the higher priorities - a task that was more difficult than you might expect, when you want to go to one of the more famous Italian ice cream parlours, and you're relying on the slightly oddly printed tour...

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