My favourite Canadian bank, PC Financial added a brilliantly designed feature to their ATMs: No more addition mistakes. Enter checks one at a time, and let the ATM do the math. So smart! Why didn’t anyone think of that before? Wells Fargo does this now, too — they scan the checks and read the amount …
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This is from my American Express blue online statement. Apparently "24, 25, 26, 25" is descending order. Sigh.
Alsoft is one of my favourite companies. DiskWarrior is the best Mac OS X disk repair utility, hands down. Well, well worth its price. As soon as I found out DiskWarrior 4 had been released, I immediately ordered the upgrade, without even finishing the article. This was around December 11. So, what’s broken? First, Alsoft’s …
AOL’s marketing is so pervasive, it has snuck its way in to their bounce messages: : host mailin-02.mx.aol.com[205.188.155.89] said: 550 We would love to have gotten this email to [email protected]. But, your recipient never logged onto their free AIM Mail account. Please contact them and let them know that they’re missing out on all the …
So the idiots at Sprint send Joel Splosky an LG Fusic phone to review, thinking he will promote their service. Phone companies, as Joel points out, have a history of bad decisions: And it’s 2006, and I almost can’t believe I’m writing this, because way back in 2000 I wrote almost exactly the same thing …
According to Fox Interactive’s new math 1 + 2 – 2 = 2:
When you use the Kelley Blue Book to price your used car, you go through a series of steps: Year, Make, Model, Value Type (Trade-In, Private Party, Retail), Trim and Condition. It’s pretty straightfoward, but there’s one usability blunder that bugged me: This screen is a waste. If there’s only one possible trim, well, just …
When you log in to Friendster, just below the fold is the People section. The first—and default visible—tab is “Local Singles.” Except it isn’t. Update: it gets worse:
Apparently MySpace is using the the same algorithm as the Diebold voting machines: