Looks a lot like my client’s spam filters are nuking all the App Store “Ready for Sale” messages. That’s convenient.

If Google Plus wants to have a killer feature that Facebook refuses to implement, it’s pretty simple: just add a “-1” button.

Aww, it’s so cute, I have two contacts whose Latitude location is up to date. Android users, obviously.

Just disabled the “+1’s” tab on my Google+ profile after I accidentally tapped the +1 button during a medical Google search on my iPad.

“Oh. What? Shit. No! Cancel! Back! Back! I meant to open the link, not +1 this page about anal fungus that I haven’t even read yet!”

Just realized there seems to be a difference between “added you on Google+” and “started sharing with you” and I have no idea what it is.

I want to design a Google+ desktop client but I’ll never have the time — or courage — to program it. Who wants to get rich?

I won’t be able to resist the temptation to install Lion as soon as it’s released, so let’s start a little SuperDuper session.

Yeah, maybe it’s time I read a PDO tutorial.

Open Google to look up something, click on the Plus notification count, close the window and forget I was ever looking for something.

J’ai plus de “people in your circles” que de “people who’ve added you”. C’est la grosse honte.

Can’t wait to sell my kidney for an iPad Pro. iOS 5 is laggy on iPad 1 in a way that doesn’t scream “will be fixed in release” to me.

I don’t know for how long OS X Mail has had an “x” to remove a blockquote while replying, but I only discovered it last week.

The Google+ stream: where YouTube ads take up half the video.

Ah, tiens, mais ils ont pas du tout pensé à un équivalent des hashtags, sur Google+, du coup ?

E-mail is only dead if you’re writing to people who are swamped with spam. If everybody just moved to Gmail the problem would be solved.

Little-known fact: I have absolutely no patience for people who can’t communicate / work efficiently by e-mail.

Other little-known fact: I have absolutely no patience for people.

Tempted to plug a second USB cable and try to restore my iPhone and iPad simultaneously. KIDDING! KIDDING! Not rocking the boat.

There’s one corrupted file among the 32,000 that constitute my iPad’s backup, and as a result the restore fails entirely.

The kicker: I have no idea how to find out which file is corrupted. If I try to copy the folder in Finder, it fails in the middle, but no idea where.

Idle thought — if you’re banned from Google+ for posting objectionable material, do you lose your Gmail account along with it?

Looks like I should have stuck with (redacted) beta 2. Can’t read more than a dozen RSS posts in a row, whether in my app or Reeder.

I know it’s the pettiest of all pet peeves, but why can’t Apple send all the regional earning reports on the same day?

Following “famous” people on Google+ is painful as hell, with the comments eternally pouring in under their posts.

Apple just confirmed, as I expected, that they wontfix the bug / functionality that makes a mess of Uniconsole in iOS 5.

“Google+” works for the service’s name, but having both “Google” and “Google+” in the App Store is gonna be a mess.

Is there a keyboard/modifier shortcut for “Reply to All” in Echofon Mac or do I have to use the context menu?

Am I really the only one put off by Flipboard regularly mistaking a swipe for its opposite?

Gonna try to restore my iPad to iOS 4.3, can’t deal with the crashy web views anymore. Willing to downgrade: that’s how much I need my iPad.

Successfully unbricked the iPad. Now on to try and brick it again.

I’d hate to think that Twitter spam actually works.

Wow, pas mal, la nouvelle interface d’aka-aki (qui date de je ne sais pas quand).

There you go, successfully wasted an entire day trying and failing to get my iPad back to 4.3. Yay.

How to downgrade iOS 5 beta to 4.3

The devil is in the italics: if it fails, use the other version of iTunes.

In case you were wondering (I was), iOS 5 backups are unrestorable to iOS 4. Using a backed up backup from early June. Still, worth it.

Ah ben ouais, même en iOS 4.3 l’appli Twitter pour iPad crashe, j’avais oublié, tiens.

I don’t understand the point of the free SketchBook Copic Edition, but it reminded me how much better it is to draw on a Wacom than an iPad.

WTF. The Google+ app refuses to run on iPads and iPods touch. Bad start. (Also, it crashes on my iPhone, but that’s probably iOS 5.)

That’s a nice fail for Google+ with iOS early adopters, who (1) want to use their iPads, and (2) have installed iOS 5 beta on their iPhones.

I’d be proud to see that Google, like me, has decided to go with embedded web views for their app—if it didn’t turn out that the app is shit.

A Google+ app update within hours? I’d love to be as blacklisted by the App Store review team as Google evidently is.

Lessons in good UI design: if you look at the latest Echofon Mac’s window while it’s inactive, you won’t know which tab is selected.

It’s a little weird to have your G+ post reshared by someone, and then not be able to see it as you’re not in the circles he reshared it to.

Wow, no more plastic MacBooks. Also, I want one of the new Minis.

The Thunderbolt Display has FW800 and Ethernet ports. Drool. (But odd that they didn’t find a way to get rid of the separate MagSafe cable.)

You can plug a second 27” Thunderbolt Display to your 27” Thunderbolt Display. And then… it’ll turn off when you full-screen an app in Lion?

Now that Dashboard is gonna be more integrated and more convenient to reach, any useful widgets to recommend?

I wish I could buy Lion online today and get the USB key for $40 when it’s available. Not so much for convenience, I just want the object.

On me souffle dans l’oreillette que je serais le seul couillon à mettre trois heures pour charger Lion ?

Somehow the linen pattern seems to work much better on my computer screen than in Springboard folders.

Re-enabling the back/forward gestures: set “Swipe between pages” to “swipe with three fingers”.

I liked the idea of natural scrolling more than the fact. Main disconnect, possibly: content is scrolling underneath a cursor staying still… unlike my fingers.

Launchpad is just horrible.

Never mind, I’ll do the switch to natural scrolling later — when I’m not Teleport’ing to a Core Duo Mac mini every five minutes.

All hail the “View/Customize…” option in System Preferences.

Oh yeah, that’s convenient. Download Xcode on the App Store and it hides an “Install Xcode” icon at the back end of Launchpad. Yeesh.

What do you know, running the Xcode installer three times in a row finally did the trick.

Every other time I want to switch from one app to another, the mouse stops responding. Which of these apps is the culprit?!

Do I buy more RAM so my MacBook doesn’t have to swap apps in the background, or wait until I buy myself a top-of-the-line MacBook Air ?

Holy shit, le kit 4 Go Macway est à 40 €. Mais pourquoi ils me proposent un kit 8 Go alors que je devrais être limité à 4 ?

I can’t open several files at the same time in Excel from the Finder anymore. How the hell did they manage that?

Who doesn’t love having to wait for the scrollbars to fade out before you’re allowed to click the last file in the window? (In list mode.)

Why did I ever tell my client to type his data into Excel instead of immediately making a web-based form? I’ll pay for that a long time.

It’s bound to occur to Twitter at some point that sorting our lists alphabetically could be a bit less confusing?

Trying out Wunderlist, thought it was crashy in Lion — no, it was just confused by my Cmd-, because it has no Preferences window.

Wait, Mission Control can not be navigated with the keyboard at all?

I’m beginning to think that maybe Lion just doesn’t like my custom-installed hard drive.

There was a warning icon next to my syncing iPhone in iTunes, so I clicked it. That just made the warning icon disappear.

Would Lion actually be worse than Snow at remembering the size and options of Finder windows?

I think I hate Mission Control. How do you choose, say, a Finder window, when you’ve got a bunch open and they’re all superposed?

Oh, that’s gonna be really fun, having Xcode automatically flush from memory every time I hide it, and spin a while when I need it again.

One ethernet router or switch per room, all daisy-chained. Gonna take a week to find which part of the network is broken.

And this is why you buy an iPad with 3G. Pretty sure I will next time. (Especially if it’s a super-expensive iPad Pro already.)

Lion’s Photoshop-style resizing modifiers

Nice. But useless. But nice.

“Mac OS X 10.7 Lion Server: The Review”

Looks like a horribly amateurish mess to me. Another nail in the Mac’s coffin.

“Doubts About Lytro’s ‘Focus Later’ Camera”

Quite glad to see I’m not the only one having them.

I have “$first = min($first, 0);” in my production code. I get this wrong EVERY TIME. I should override min() and max() to “die”.

I can only hope someone discovers some more sensible hidden preferences for Mission Control before I throw the MacBook through the window.

I’m beginning to suspect that my Lion stalls happened because the system was randomly waking up, and waiting for, my network-connected Drobo.

If you care about ever losing your Gmail account, maybe you should run away from Google+

(via @donaldjenkins)

Geeks have the weirdest priorities. NSAutomaticWindowAnimationsEnabled is less than the least of my worries in this shitty OS.

Oh. It may be my fault that OS X (even Snow) kept waking up my network-connected Drobo. I’d put a shortcut to it in my Home directory.

The ability to undo multiple steps in the Finder, that’s new, isn’t it?

I know 26:00 on a Sunday isn’t the best time to ask, but anyone got a recommendation for a hosted VPN service?

Come on, there must be a way to do a physical check of a hard drive in OS X without buying a $100 third-party utility?

Graaah. Je mets les fichiers corrompus à la poubelle pour que SuperDuper ne bute pas dessus, mais il copie aussi la poubelle.

Zeroed out the drive three times, SMART still says it’s good, so I guess I’m gonna assume it’s good. I’ll just backup three times a day.

“Google’s gormless ‘no pseudonym’ policy”

In other news, reinstalling on a formatted drive with the home-made DVD works great. Only difference is, final online registration is not optional.

So… is “Find my Mac” available in Lion somewhere and I can’t find it, or will it only be enabled after iCloud is launched?

“If your website’s full of assholes, it’s your fault”

Ah, the 1Password extension for Safari has been fixed (shows as a popup rather than in-browser), so I’m switching back again back.

Oh, yeah. Maybe next time I won’t launch FileVault encryption just while Spotlight is re-indexing the whole drive. That’d be more sensible.

Kernel panic while FileVault was encrypting the disk. (Caused by Xcode.) I’m sure I’ve got nothing at all to worry about…

I must say, imperfect as it is, I love switching from one space to another with a swipe.

If I’d won Euromillions I’d have hired a programmer to make a spatial Finder replacement based on my specs. Go ahead and weep.

OMFG I HATE YOU. TextEdit disappears from the Dock right after I’ve closed the last file, before I have time to drag the next files to the icon.

I’d love for iOS 5 to get a visual redesign of the blue alert boxes. They’ve gotten seriously old, much more so than the other interface elements.

“Switch friends to Gmail” is kind of an odd call to action. Like “Surprise your friends, enlist them in the army.”

Ahhhh I can hide my Gmail labels from IMAP, and even the “All Mail” box? That should make Mail’s sync so much more responsive!

I’m still not getting used to the t.co URLs; my first reaction is always “why would an article thus described be on a TechCrunch?”

I’m worried about what will happen to my desktop icon placement when I use the MacBook on the go, without the external screen.

I love signup forms where the compulsory, restricted, and Javascript-populated “state/region” field is above the “country” field that determines its contents. Ungh.

Oops, I was this close to paying for my auto-renewing VPN service with PayPal. Like I haven’t read enough horror stories just this week.

Um… if the VPN’s secret key for L2TP is the same for all users… doesn’t that mean anyone knowing the key could intercept the data?

“Aaron’s Twitter Viewer”

Displays the entire conversation thread from a tweet. With bookmarklet. A must-have.

Maybe, just maybe, launching Google+ right over the July-August slump was incredibly stupid.

Oh, yeah, I forgot that Americans don’t have summer vacations, so they don’t realize what goes on in Europe (via @pppaulppp)

No choice but to sniff the user-agent if I want to check whether I’m in a mobile browser that can do uploads? That’s ridiculous.

It’s a good thing I have a hot corner for “Show Desktop” because I’m unable to reliably execute the gesture.

Ooh, looks like Lion-scrolling beyond the top in Echofon now marks the timeline as read. I like this.