Garoo

2011 brings a new keyword to ignore (twitcam), and still no ignoring keywords in either Echofon or Twitter itself.

Why did Twitter feel the need to alienate all the fans of Tweetie by playing coy about the upcomping Mac App Store app?

First reason I’m sticking with Echofon: I like to have my timeline sit flush with the left side of the screen, and Twitter still can’t.

Well, I could have lived another day without a Mac App Store. Meh. (Of course I’m only saying that because I have no app on it.)

I like “type anywhere to tweet” in the MacHeist Tweetie 2 special features, but still no setting for a right-handed sidebar.

Fancy non-titlebars (App Store, Twitter…) break usability. You shouldn’t have to think about where you’ve got to grab a given window to move it.

At least the presence of Remote Desktop on the Mac App Store makes me hopeful for an eventual iOS client.

I want to give myself the gift of space-age laser-powered photonic printing for my birthday. Do I get cheap B&W or invest in cheap CMYK?

New Twitter for Mac lost keyword filtering (via @lionel)? I want to believe that means it’s coming to server-side account settings.

I keep forgetting and rediscovering that I like Flipboard now.

So the design spec I wrote for my iOS app includes a functionality that’s all but impossible to code with the SDK. Yay for me.

Just realized, with Flipboard, I could remove from Google Reader all the stuff I don’t really read but just keep a lazy eye on.

Exposé-like gestures and a screen orientation lock in iOS 4.3 on iPad? Looks like another beta I’ll absolutely have to install.

I added one file to the Good Reader app two days ago so, of course, my iPad’s pre-4.3 backup is literally taking hours. Damnit, iTunes.

Left iTunes to back up my iPad all night and the progress bar didn’t move one pixel.

Now I’m trying to reboot my iPad and it’s been stuck on the “shutting down” progress spinner for ten minutes. Grah.

I like the four-finger gestures on iPad OS 4.3, but the Alt-Tab left/right is unusable; you’ll never know in what order the apps are.

Care to explain to me why Google Places is a separate app from Latitude? (Also, my phone’s location services seem to be broken.)

Did the dollar tank? How am I getting less App Store royalties for December despite Christmas?

Shouldn’t have upgraded to the 4.3 beta so early just for the gestures; Echofon crashes at launch, and my RSS reader every 100 articles.

“More iOS 4.3 digging hints at new iPad 2 camera, same 1024 x 768 display”

That’s $700 I won’t need in 2011. What to buy?

Does Echofon Lite on the Mac App Store have the “Register” nag screen at startup? (Don’t think it should be compatible with the guidelines.)

Best thing about the new iPad gestures: two-finger pinch-out to go back to the main menu will become a standard among third-party apps.

It’s really called Google Hotpot? I just thought it was a typo.

If you dropped the DC end of phone/laptop charger in a bathtub, would it be enough to short the mains? Or would the adapter end up burning?

Dear Google Reader: when I’m switching the view to “all items” then it makes no sense to honor my “oldest first” sort settings. Thank you.

Formspring account “deleted.” Finally motivated by their encouraging users to ask stupid, irrelevant questions in bulk to everyone they follow.

Where “deleted” is in quotes because of course you can’t actually delete your account, silly, you can just disable it.

FU.

Argh, iOS 4.3 beta 2 is fucking with my (admittedly questionable) use of gesture recognizers on top of a web view.

Argh, Finder forgot the arrangement of icons on my desktop. Hadn’t happened in so long I’d gotten back into having a lot of shit there.

Thought I’d finally move my all old passwords from Yojimbo to 1Password. Only halfway done and ready to skin kittens with my teeth.

It’s a mind-numbing task, minus the numbness.

“Use your Twitter avatar: enter your Twitter username and we’ll import your avatar.” That’s smart.

OTOH if you need to say “You’re editing your profile; click ‘save profile’ up there when you’re done” something’s wrong in your form design.

GOD DAMNIT WE DON’T GIVE A FUCK THAT SOMEONE SOMEWHERE HUNG UP ON AN APPLE EXEC ONCE THAT’S NOT A NEWS HEADLINE.

Reading many tech blogs at once can be really bad for your nerves. But I can’t rely on someone else to filter the interesting stuff for me.

Web views seem less OOM-crashy in iOS 4.3 — I can actually click a link or two in my homebrew RSS reader without crashing. Maybe I’ll be able to release it after all.

Marco Arment, on Instapaper’s bookmarklet

No wonder it’s so damn annoyingly slow. I just want to save the URL!

Oh, and, yeah, I like the new navigation bar on apple.com. #breakingnews #stopthepresses

Je veux transférer un domaine sur Gandi, le site bugge ; j’essaie de signaler le bug, le formulaire de contact bouffe mon message.

Il y a deux feux de cheminée virtuels dans le top gratuit du Mac App Store français. Honte. Et, oui, je viens d’en charger un.

Why is my MacBook refusing to play any AVIs? (Don’t think I ever tried before on this machine.) I have Perian installed and up to date.

Ohh, depuis quand Amazon.fr vend des vêtements ?

In 2011, I think I’m ready to use a grocery-list app on my iPhone and roam the aisles with my phone in my hand.