Max Beatty

With Apple’s iCloud Photo Stream, every pic­ture you take is sent to all of your devices. That’s your iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, Mac­Book, and iCloud.com. It will save your last 1000 pho­tos for 30 days and you can’t edit or delete any of them. If you need to delete a photo for what­ever rea­son, you have […]

To date, I’ve been a mem­ber of Face­book for 24% of my life. I’ve grown up with them, lived through their redesigns, and sorta kinda under­stood their grow­ing num­ber of fea­tures. Today, they’ve added the Sub­scribe But­ton. By opt­ing in, you can remove the syn­chro­nous foun­da­tion of the plat­form which is what I’m choos­ing to do.

A lit­tle less than two weeks ago, I deleted my Mint.com account. “Mint brings all your finan­cial accounts together online, auto­mat­i­cally cat­e­go­rizes your trans­ac­tions, lets you set bud­gets & helps you achieve your sav­ings goals.” It’s a good ser­vice with a great com­mu­nity, but it wasn’t work­ing for me. For bet­ter or worse, my life has […]

I like Tum­blr and use it for things that seem off topic here, but their email noti­fi­ca­tions are use­less. Exam­ple: That’s the entire email. I like that it’s short and not filled with junk I don’t need or care about, but that’s mainly because it’s empty. They could add a lot of value to their […]

Com­pa­nies are still explor­ing ways to inter­act with cus­tomers and poten­tial cus­tomers using social media. Last week, my bank sent me a post­card in the mail to tell me about a pro­mo­tion they were run­ning through their Face­book page. Essen­tially since my ini­tials are M.B., they want to give me a mug with their MB […]