Hi! My name is Cédric Bozzi, I make websites and iOS apps, and this is my blog about technology (mostly a Twitter archive, really).
Touchscreen car dashboards should be just as illegal as texting while driving
The world needed SJobs to create a car.
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.
Plus it could make sense to bump up the Retina iPad to $600 and introduce the smaller model at $350 or $400.
What the…? Oh. Gmail automatically forces the compact view because my browser window isn’t full-width — regardless of my choice. Fuck you, Gmail.
“Walter Isaacson’s ‘Steve Jobs’”
You gotta wonder if Jobs ever realized his mistake and regretted his choice.
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.
I love the Kindle’s packaging. Proof that you can make it feel as gratifying as unboxing an iPhone without actually copying Apple.
So, Mountain Lion brings the features that should have been activated in Lion the day iOS 5 came out. Nothing to see.
I don’t know where the hell to park my Kindle on my desk; all flat surfaces are already occupied by devices #firstworldproblems
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.
iOS 6 absolutely needs a way for your iPhone to upload your non-iMessage texts to iMessage, letting you respond from your other devices.
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.
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?
The Messages app gets a badge in the Dock when there are unread messages, even if the app is not running. Well done.
I also quite like the way iMessage notifications just disappear from my iPhone the very instant I activate the Messages window on my Mac.
Oh, I completely missed the announcement that you could now freely sign up to Dribbble (as a “spectator”). ‘Bout time.
Judging from the articles coming out today about Mountain Lion, Phil Schiller one-to-ones are the new Reality Distortion Field.
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.
You’d think, Xcode being specifically made for one single language, they could hard-code the completion popup away for when you type “nil”.
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.
Just remembered you can open separate timeline windows in Twitter for Mac. Would be perfect if it remembered open windows over relaunches.
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.
Because how stupid would I look, reading my long-waiting paperbacks just now that I’ve gotten a Kindle?
“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)?
It always takes me an hour to figure out how to make a repeating pattern with diagonal stripes in Photoshop.
“OS X Lion Finder bug deletes moved files”
Not gonna happen often, but I find intolerable any data-loss bug like this.
Switching to Kindle in the middle of a 600-page paperback, I can confirm: Kindle beats paper, and scissors and rock.
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.
“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.
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.
Ungh at my Facebook pages switching to a new format that I won’t maintain either. And a dozen timeline covers to design now.
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