Spotify on Amazon Fire TV I have a fairly small TV, given today’s giant, curved screens – it’s about 35″ diagonally – but that’s surely large enough to be able to use most apps, isn’t it? Well, it would be, if the people who develop these apps just realized that not everyone has a 100″ […]

​Here’s what’s wrong with books – meaning words printed on paper. (Just about everything I say here applies to magazines as well.) The problem is: the words are locked onto the page. You cannot get them out. You can highlight them with a pen – but you cannot lift them out, and then save some […]

Here’s another lousy design. Amazon has lots of different offerings – things you buy, things you subscribe to by the month (Kindle Unlimited, Music Unlimited) or annually (Prime). And they get charged to your credit card with fairly generic labels – in my recent situation, it was called “Amazon Digital Services.” So you get one […]

I’m not sure this fits into the fast/cheap/good meme, but it certainly fits the “not good” issue. I’m looking for a new desk, so I trot on over to officedepot.com – since my local office supply store is office max, this makes no sense at all, but that’s the way it is here… And, as […]

Ok, maybe the title is a little too negative – I haven’t used Amazon Music enough to condemn the whole thing. Here’s what I hate so far: 1) on my Amazon Fire TV Stick, Amazon replaced the Music component with a link to a new Amazon Music app. No announcement, as far as I know […]