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Hi! My name is Cédric Bozzi, I make websites and iOS apps, and this is my blog about technology (mostly a Twitter archive, really).

1 February 2012

Les services web gratuits sont illégaux en France, forcément

# 2012/02/01 - 15:09 — originally published on @garooTECH

LiveView would be a lot more convenient to use if Photoshop didn’t move the document window around every time I zoom in and back out.

# 2012/02/01 - 19:03 — originally published on @garooTECH

2 February

Si je ne switche pas sur Free Mobile, je devrais peut-être passer à un opérateur dont le réseau ne soit pas cannibalisé par Free Mobile ?

# 2012/02/02 - 16:30 — originally published on @garooTECH

3 February

The Verge explores iMessage

I hadn’t even thought about how easy it makes it to intentionally spy on someone.

# 2012/02/03 - 23:27 — originally published on @garooTECH

4 February

Apple clarifies iBooks EULA

No surprise there whatsoever. (But it did need to happen, of course.)

# 2012/02/04 - 00:34 — originally published on @garooTECH

Why does Xcode set the build number of a new project to “1.0” rather than “1” (or maybe even “0”)?

# 2012/02/04 - 18:17 — originally published on @garooTECH

God I hate how, every time you create a new project in Xcode, it’s subtly different from the last one you created in a previous version.

# 2012/02/04 - 18:24 — originally published on @garooTECH

5 February

I’d completely missed the bit about Facebook making a $1 billion profit last year.

Fuck!

# 2012/02/05 - 16:00 — originally published on @garooTECH

7 February

I’m kind of surprised that people are still shocked when an app uploads their address book without asking

# 2012/02/07 - 20:59 — originally published on @garooTECH

9 February

CSS prefixes were always an untenable concept, but implementing another browser’s prefixes goes beyond dumb. Just drop the prefixes already.

# 2012/02/09 - 18:37 — originally published on @garooTECH

Testing Tweetbot for iPad, since everyone’s all about it. Love timed mute, not sure yet about how the rest compares to Echofon.

# 2012/02/09 - 19:15 — originally published on @garooTECH

10 February

Touchscreen car dashboards should be just as illegal as texting while driving

The world needed SJobs to create a car.

# 2012/02/10 - 15:34 — originally published on @garooTECH

11 February

Instagram 2.1: looks uglier, still has no preview thumbnails, and they’re sticking new buttons wherever there’s room. But, hey, fake HDR.

# 2012/02/11 - 03:14 — originally published on @garooTECH

I know the enlarged center button in the tab bar was controversial (I liked it), but it’s just indisputably awful to keep the paradigm without the visual cue.

# 2012/02/11 - 03:17 — originally published on @garooTECH

13 February

ThinkGeek iCade 8-Bitty

That’s pretty dumb; the whole point of an iPhone is, you hold the iPhone in your hand.

# 2012/02/13 - 20:31 — originally published on @garooTECH

Twitter needs to be realistic and make it easier for people to post to different accounts from the web interface.

# 2012/02/13 - 20:31 — originally published on @garooTECH

14 February

Like I wrote before, since the iPad is not ashamed anymore of being (mostly) all about content consumption, I can see an 8” model happening.

# 2012/02/14 - 19:59 — originally published on @garooTECH

Plus it could make sense to bump up the Retina iPad to $600 and introduce the smaller model at $350 or $400.

# 2012/02/14 - 20:00 — originally published on @garooTECH

Looking for a Facebook friend whose name I don’t remember, spent ten minutes hunting for the link to the goddamn friend list.

# 2012/02/14 - 23:57 — originally published on @garoo

Particularly love that you don’t end up on the same page depending on which “Find Friends” link you click on.

# 2012/02/14 - 23:59 — originally published on @garoo

15 February

I’m clearly (ha!) late on this, but Impending has the most awesome animated logo

# 2012/02/15 - 02:02 — originally published on @garooTECH

What the…? Oh. Gmail automatically forces the compact view because my browser window isn’t full-width — regardless of my choice. Fuck you, Gmail.

# 2012/02/15 - 02:12 — originally published on @garooTECH

“Walter Isaacson’s ‘Steve Jobs’”

You gotta wonder if Jobs ever realized his mistake and regretted his choice.

# 2012/02/15 - 13:00 — originally published on @garooTECH

I guess, as a developer, I have no choice but to get the Clear app, even if I’m not too interested in what it offers.

# 2012/02/15 - 13:02 — originally published on @garooTECH

Clear looks cool and feels awesome to use, but I’m not sure many of its choices are beneficial — foremost, the lack of a back button.

# 2012/02/15 - 13:12 — originally published on @garooTECH

Can’t believe the Remote app for iTunes still has to create a playlist on your computer, like a third-party AppleScript hack would.

# 2012/02/15 - 18:09 — originally published on @garooTECH

16 February

I love the Kindle’s packaging. Proof that you can make it feel as gratifying as unboxing an iPhone without actually copying Apple.

# 2012/02/16 - 15:26 — originally published on @garooTECH

“This summer, less than a year later…” I’m not sure you should be proud of that, guys #mountainlion

# 2012/02/16 - 15:56 — originally published on @garooTECH

So, Mountain Lion brings the features that should have been activated in Lion the day iOS 5 came out. Nothing to see.

# 2012/02/16 - 16:13 — originally published on @garooTECH

I don’t know where the hell to park my Kindle on my desk; all flat surfaces are already occupied by devices #firstworldproblems

# 2012/02/16 - 16:47 — originally published on @garoo

You can get the new iChat/Messages app on Lion

I’m bracing myself to face the awful waste of pixels in that split view.

# 2012/02/16 - 17:27 — originally published on @garooTECH

Isn’t MSN Messenger officially open to everyone now? Why isn’t Messages supporting it?

# 2012/02/16 - 17:30 — originally published on @garooTECH

That mountain lion look depressed to anyone else, by the way?

# 2012/02/16 - 17:31 — originally published on @garooTECH

iOS 6 absolutely needs a way for your iPhone to upload your non-iMessage texts to iMessage, letting you respond from your other devices.

# 2012/02/16 - 17:42 — originally published on @garooTECH

Having to ask yourself, when you see a message icon in your iPhone’s notification list, “did I read it already or is it a text?” is untenable.

# 2012/02/16 - 17:45 — originally published on @garooTECH

A bit disheartened that I have to set up my list of email aliases and caller ID again in the Messages app. Why isn’t it server-side yet?

# 2012/02/16 - 18:25 — originally published on @garooTECH

The Messages app gets a badge in the Dock when there are unread messages, even if the app is not running. Well done.

# 2012/02/16 - 19:13 — originally published on @garooTECH

I also quite like the way iMessage notifications just disappear from my iPhone the very instant I activate the Messages window on my Mac.

# 2012/02/16 - 19:15 — originally published on @garooTECH

I hate that the Messages icon seems to be perpetually saying that someone’s typing at me right now.

# 2012/02/16 - 19:24 — originally published on @garooTECH

Oh, I completely missed the announcement that you could now freely sign up to Dribbble (as a “spectator”). ‘Bout time.

# 2012/02/16 - 19:27 — originally published on @garooTECH

The iCloud open/save dialog

Of all the iOSisms that get ported to the desktop, I think this one is an excellent idea.

# 2012/02/16 - 19:38 — originally published on @garooTECH

Judging from the articles coming out today about Mountain Lion, Phil Schiller one-to-ones are the new Reality Distortion Field.

# 2012/02/16 - 19:44 — originally published on @garooTECH

Cmd-W in Messages removes the current conversation from the list. Unlike Safari’s tabs, I expect chats to stay open when I close the window.

# 2012/02/16 - 19:53 — originally published on @garooTECH

Wonder if a court could hypothetically order Apple to revoke the Gatekeeper certificate of an app like TVShows.

# 2012/02/16 - 21:44 — originally published on @garooTECH

#ihatephotoshop #godifuckinghatephotoshop

# 2012/02/16 - 22:17 — originally published on @garoo

Ca fait deux fois de suite que je traîne mon image sur l’icône d’iTunes au lieu de Photoshop. Overdose de bleu.

# 2012/02/16 - 23:45 — originally published on @garooTECH

17 February

You’d think, Xcode being specifically made for one single language, they could hard-code the completion popup away for when you type “nil”.

# 2012/02/17 - 03:32 — originally published on @garooTECH

I wish I could stop compulsively muting everyone; both Twitter and Facebook are getting so lonely.

# 2012/02/17 - 04:59 — originally published on @garoo

Today we’re excited to announce that Garoo will slit his wrists with a broken AOL CD if his DSL remains stuck at 1KB/s for ten more minutes.

# 2012/02/17 - 16:12 — originally published on @garoo

Osfoora for Mac looks pretty

But coming late, the battle’s been fought already. Also, main window wastes lots of space.

# 2012/02/17 - 18:35 — originally published on @garooTECH

Just remembered you can open separate timeline windows in Twitter for Mac. Would be perfect if it remembered open windows over relaunches.

# 2012/02/17 - 21:38 — originally published on @garooTECH

“Slide up to open Camera”

The visual doesn’t seem clear or intuitive to me, but the gesture sounds good.

# 2012/02/17 - 23:11 — originally published on @garooTECH

19 February

Looks like the Kindle simply gives up on justifying a line if the words would end up too far apart. Interesting compromise.

# 2012/02/19 - 23:13 — originally published on @garooTECH

Finished reading the Steve Jobs biography. I feel like he’s dead.

# 2012/02/19 - 23:56 — originally published on @garoo

20 February

I’ve got a box full of books I was waiting for a good time to read, and now of course I’m wondering whether to buy them all again on Kindle.

# 2012/02/20 - 01:30 — originally published on @garooTECH

Because how stupid would I look, reading my long-waiting paperbacks just now that I’ve gotten a Kindle?

# 2012/02/20 - 01:31 — originally published on @garooTECH

Why on earth does Preview insist on making you add your signature via iSight? What would be wrong with dragging an image onto the list?

# 2012/02/20 - 15:55 — originally published on @garooTECH

Come on, there’s got to be a less gruesome way to get ePubs on my Kindle than using Calibre.

# 2012/02/20 - 20:47 — originally published on @garooTECH

22 February

Hey, Google: I don’t give a shit about Plus but, if my results gotta be customized, at least let me block sites, e.g.

# 2012/02/22 - 00:28 — originally published on @garooTECH

“Please Steal These webOS Features”

I’m always surprised when someone mentions that they use Safari a lot on their iPad — I kinda avoid it like the plague. Not that it’s bad; it’s just that the tab management UI is absolutely not optimized for touch. I always refrain from opening a web link from an iOS app because I know it will result in Safari remembering to keep this tab open for months, even though I only wanted a glance at it once.

On the other hand, managing your open tabs — and managing your open apps, and a lot of other system-level stuff — is a pleasure on webOS. How does it work anyway, now that the system is open source? Does it make it possible for anyone to copy any aspect of the UX, or do the patents still apply to you if you aren’t actually using the code (and contributing your own code in return, by the law of open source)?

# 2012/02/22 - 17:04

It always takes me an hour to figure out how to make a repeating pattern with diagonal stripes in Photoshop.

# 2012/02/22 - 20:08 — originally published on @garooTECH

“OS X Lion Finder bug deletes moved files”

Not gonna happen often, but I find intolerable any data-loss bug like this.

# 2012/02/22 - 21:53 — originally published on @garooTECH

23 February

Hey, iTunes Connect, I know HTML is really hard but, still, maybe put a fucking separator between each month in the list of earning reports?

# 2012/02/23 - 15:35 — originally published on @garooTECH

27 February

Tumblr updates content policy

Blog hosting is a can of worms; going beyond strict application of the law is a slippery slope.

# 2012/02/27 - 18:35 — originally published on @garooTECH

Switching to Kindle in the middle of a 600-page paperback, I can confirm: Kindle beats paper, and scissors and rock.

# 2012/02/27 - 19:23 — originally published on @garooTECH

The only thing Kindle makes harder is skimming through long, over-detailed descriptions. (Because there’s so relatively little text on a single screen.) But that may not be an entirely bad thing.

# 2012/02/27 - 19:24 — originally published on @garooTECH

“AT&T’s mad, mad plan to charge wireless app developers”

When you compare it to 1-800 numbers it’s not all that absurd.

# 2012/02/27 - 21:13 — originally published on @garooTECH

28 February

Somewhat mystified by the material that makes the back of my Kindle. Feels rubbery to the touch, but seems like plastic in every other way.

# 2012/02/28 - 14:50 — originally published on @garooTECH

Don’t tell anyone, but if I somehow got a Galaxy Note 10.1 for free I totally wouldn’t throw it away.

# 2012/02/28 - 16:31 — originally published on @garooTECH

Did… Apple… really send out a photo of the Retina iPad on the event invite? OMG the sky is falling so hard. Doomed! Apple is doomed!

# 2012/02/28 - 19:43 — originally published on @garooTECH

29 February

Maybe there’s no Home button on the iPad 3 because you can only unlock it with the stylus.

# 2012/02/29 - 00:03 — originally published on @garooTECH

Arg. I wouldn’t mind if Apple emailed me to warn me that push is about to expire on one of my apps.

# 2012/02/29 - 17:53 — originally published on @garooTECH

Ungh at my Facebook pages switching to a new format that I won’t maintain either. And a dozen timeline covers to design now.

# 2012/02/29 - 19:51 — originally published on @garoo

I love Timeline for Facebook profiles, but it’s pretty stupid for pages, where static presentation is more important than history.

# 2012/02/29 - 19:58 — originally published on @garooTECH

Guess I have no choice but to stick the intro text into the cover image, which sucks.