Search Persistance and Google (and iTunes) (video)

This has bothered me for a long time, and I just learned that Quicktime allows you to do really easy screen recordings, so here it is.  Me complaining about software, now with video and audio!  Enjoy!
(basically I demonstrate how Google and iTunes lose my search input and how it makes no sense to me that these companies are not interested in what the user types.  iTunes is so bad that when I search playlists and then go back to the library and search I've memorized how to really quick, select all, copy and paste, to make the program work properly.  I can't even imagine how difficult it will be to change my habits if they actually changed the program to search correctly.  And Google!  Google!  You're a search company! You used to have this down pat.  The buttons on the top have ALWAYS remembered my search input and that I am on Google, I want to keep searching!  But recently they've lost their way.  I don't know why.  I wish I could help.  Hopefully this video will do something.  Please save my search input!  Everything the user types is important.  I can't believe you don't know that or have chosen to forget.  Please remember my search input!)

iGoogle Tasks: Strange Error places periods next to checkboxes

This is the kind of small HTML error that usually happens on my webpages, not the great and all powerful google.  It kinda looks like a numbering error.  Like they wanted to add the option to number your tasks, but only added the periods.  I didn't want to say anything and I was hoping it was a one time load error, but it's still there.  Maybe it's an error in iGoogle or in the theme.  Not sure.  Hope it goes away.  Wish I could tell someone important who actually worked on the project.  Then I'd have a job working for Google.

Blogger still hides the white page from you, has annoying sidebar loading issue

Blogger fixes full page display issue, still has side bar loading late pop in annoyance issue, but it's getting better. (take that back, I was in HTML mode.  In compose mode it still hides half the page to protect you from the white page?  Also the annoying side panel animations continue.  Switch modes from HTML to Compose, annoying animation, create a new post, annoying animation.  They have the same thing in Google Docs.  I only use the writing portion, never the sidebar, so why do I have to watch the page load and then reload each time?)

Chrome Quietly fixes Print Settings on Mac to remember header and footer settings. THANK YOU!

Google Docs - should remember my place in the document

Stop starting me at the begining of the doc everytime!  I'm clearly there to add more to the document.  I've seen the begining and now I'd like to continue at the end.  At least give me the choice or show me a popup window.

Gmail should allow you to answer the phone and talk with a robot voice

When I don't have a microphone hooked up to my computer, or I'm in the library or a public place where I need to keep quiet, it would be really cool if Gmail could answer the phone for me.

In more detail.  My phone rings.  I push answer.  Gmail converts what the person is saying to text.  I type a response.  Gmail converts to to computer speak.  My friend hears a computery voice, but we are able to communicate even though I don't have a microphone and I'm not annoying anybody with my speakers or lack of headset.  Also great service for the deaf.

This is a good idea Google.  I'd really like to see you get on it.

Adsense Account Settings Page makes Phone Verification Difficult by hiding your phone number

Recently signed up for an Adsense account and found it to be very confusing due to an error in the way the Account Settings page was setup:

Note that the phone number the page is displaying is NOT the phone number used to verify your account.  The phone number used to verify your account is hidden in "edit address" and not displayed on the Account Settings page.  Now that's confusing!

Update: Kinda bummed that Google hasn't fixed this yet.  Seems like a no brainer.  Did everything I could.  Even submitted it to their support forums, but no response yet.

Chrome (mac) - Bug Alert - Long Shortcuts cause Oversized Finder Window in Open File

If you've got a really long name on your "shortcuts sidebar" in Finder, and you try to open a file in google chrome, Chrome fails to shorten the long name, forcing the sidebar to resize itself to match the long shortcut name.

Really long shortcut names confuse Google Chrome, but Finder just makes them short:

 

Google Chrome

Finder

New +1 icon

A clear improvement.  Leaving behind the old multicolor google scheme and adopting the new Google the Red vs. Facebook the Blue prisim by which we will view our world.  (Blogger still a nice orange)

Share Button Delenda Est!  - They pop it up everytime you push +1 so why even have it!  (sure I like it as a distinction but I'm sick of them popping it up everytime I edit a blog post, preview a blog post or +1 something.  It's sad pathetic needy behavior bordering on buggy and google deserves better.

Blogger: Share box with a mind of it's own randomly loads, even though I never want it to

Seriously google.  First you ask me to overshare (asking me after each one of my blog posts) and now you're randomly asking me to share when I update the post or now even preview the post.  You've got some serious issues with this share box.  First you don't need it, let the people auto share to G+ or never share.  Why always pop me up a box?  I probably would have chosen auto-share, but now without the option, having seen this box so many times (and on preview, really.  like I want to share that I'm making small edits and seeing how they look?) that I'd probably go to auto-share off and leave your empty social network in the dust.  At first I just didn't like the box, as it came up when I +1'ed something, which I see as more as a "like", but now I fricking hate it.  Good job, Google.  (not)