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Eddie Izzard's Encore on Computers - just for a 7' laugh… Orig: YouTube...
My 2 cents worth of iPhone tips for Switzerland
It's almost a month now that I've received my iPhone, and I thought it might be time to share a few tips related to its use in Switzerland where it still isn't officially available despite the rumours (Feb 29th,...
Wet
I don't know about you, but here you are better off staying at home, snuggling up in front of a warm chimney (if you have one - wish I did), listening to the wind blowing and the rain falling...
Burned
It's a bright new day. I remember this day, nine years ago as if it were yesterday. Some events just burn into your memory cells forever. More than a turn in my life, it was an opening. An opening...
Snow today?
No snow here - yet but windy has hell. Felt like the tires of my bike were glued to the road. No iPhone either. Brr. Grr....
10.5.2 freezes
When an update makes you feel sick. This is what the latest Mac OS 10.5.2 update makes me want to do. It is a sad world when you start to loose trust in what use to be a flawless...
Rainy Monday iMix
A whipped iMix of the tunes & vibes which kept me going on this cold and rainy February Monday morning. Just like that. ADD? Naahh…...
.Mac calendar synchronisation problem in Leopard
I've been having synchronisation issues with .Mac services recently related to my iCal calendars. Usually, resetting the .Mac copy with a local copy from one of my computers solved the problem. But not this time. The SyncServer was generating...
Raspberry sky
Woke up to the most beautiful sky this morning. Shades of pink, orange, magenta all harmoniously gathered and delicately intermingled to wish us a raspberry week. Wish I had my Ricoh GRD. And apparently, I wasn't the only one to...
Trusting a Certificate with Keychain Access
This is by no means mission critical, but I have been plagued with a keychain certificate glitch ever since I migrated to my Mac Pro in August. Each time I opened Mail.app it warned me that the certificate for one...
iPod Touch first impressions
My iPod Touch was delivered yesterday around 3pm, and I've been playing with it since. The iPhone hasn't reached Europe yet, and isn't announced in Switzerland at al for the moment, so it was my first contact with the...
Apple Store web standards savvy
This might be old news to some, but I was pleasantly surprised this morning to discover that the Apple Store had been redesigned to become a big step closer to web standard compliance and has improved its accessibility. Apple's...
21 Sep 2007
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comments are offBear with me
Please bear with me while I fool around with the markup and the css of this website. A revamp is on the way. Things might look weird, things might break, things might simply not show up. I know. It's...
Spaces matter in IE 7's conditional statements
This might not be news for you, but it came as a surprise to me when I recently tested a website under Internet Explorer 7 and discovered that nothing showed up, although it displayed normally under IE 6. The...
Hot in Geneva
I love it and not thinking about Monday....
Twitter cleanup
Spent the last 10 minutes cleaning up my Twitter follower's list. Twitter has just introduced a new feature called "block": We've introduced a new feature lots of folks requested called "block." Blocking someone means that you (and your pic) will...
Sunny at seven
The sun is shining at seven o'clock. Temperatures are rising again. Public outdoor swimming pools open after tomorrow. At lunchtime I'll only have another three lectures to give before the summer break. It's going to be a full day....
Airport Disk hangs logout if not unmounted
I've setup my brand new Airport Extreme base station with success about ten days ago, and was excited to test out the new Airport Disk feature. I intended to transfer my iTunes library onto an external disk, and share...
Winter hits back with a revenge
With Spring less than two days away, Winter hits back with a revenge (• • • • •)...
Safari UTF-8 rendering glitch fixed in WebKit nightly build
Safari v2.0.4 (419.3) and previous versions have this annoying habit of not displaying utf-8 encoded characters properly under certain conditions: If you use the css 'content' property to display an utf-8 encoded string, it won't be properly rendered in...
MacBook Pro Core 2 Duo WEP problems fixed?
Apple released an Airport Update 2007-002 that fixes connection problems that were nagging MacBook and MacBook Pro users ever since the release of the MacBook Pro C2D. Contrary to the previous one released earlier this year. This update also...
Swiss french speak French
Why can't web app developers embrace the idea that language should be assigned as an array and not a single variable to a country? Switzerland has 4 official languages plus English. Defaulting to German is plain shortsighted. I learned...
Wardriving in the Heathrow Express
On our way home from FoWA London 2007, I connected to the internet at Paddington waiting for the train to leave. I kept iStumbler open as we left the station expecting to see the number of access points fade as...
Sunny melting hot in Leysin
Waow. The snow will definitively melt today.....
Multiple iTunes librairies
I've been playing around with iTunes 7 multiple librairies function, and I must admit it works as advertised. I've been looking for a solution that enables me to share a library among multiple Macs, along with its copy protected...
WWDC07
Whoosh, I received a Time Machine Leopard teaser styled invitation in my mail today. Now, what does that tell us on 10.5 UI? Apple's Worldwide Developer's Conference will be help on June 11-15th, 2007 in San Francisco....
Movable Type in the fast lane
One of Pronet's latest weblog posts entitled "Make Movable Type 15 times faster!" attracted my attention a few days ago, and I decided to give it a try over the weekend. It turns out that the latest version of...
Apple UK ads
The Get a Mac adverts are available on Apple's UK website with new actors. I find them funnier than the original ones. It must be that English dry humour touch.....
Mint v2.0
Shaun Inman has just released Mint v2.0. A major update to what has become an invaluable website usage stats tool. UI aside, I noticed the following enhancements, full support for IE6+ including admin (lots of clients asked for this);...
Dingalingaling
I've just been given one of the funniest ringtone I've happen to hear since I own a mobile phone. Thanks Sergio. MP3 Flash Player courtesy of dewplayer. It come as an MP3 file (a little over 2Mb): 07_Radjiv_07.mp3. I have...
Enlightened
His Holiness the Dalai Lama using a Mac. A happy picture picked this up on Digg....
Cold here too
Yes, it's cold here too....
Yet another WiFi network (yawn)
Another WiFi network appeared in iStumbler this morning, which brings the total to ten. There were two (mine included) back in 2001 when I moved in, and four last summer. I'm actually hooking into private networks from across the...
Stopdesign is back. Just write.
I was pleased to discover that Douglas Bowman (Stopdesign) has resumed writing again after a pause of a year or so. I particulary enjoyed the reasons why he stopped and why he is resuming. So I stopped using my feed...
Getting GrowlMail to work
Leopard 10.5 update: Mac OS X 10.5's Mail.app requires bundle version 3 or greater. See comment below. I've been fiddling around to get GrowlMail to work with the latest version of Growl. Installing the GrowlMail bundle went fine, but...
@media 2007 London
Yes! I've just booked my seat to the third edition of @media conference. I'll be attending the European edition in London on June 7th. This edition offers transcontinental editions: Europe, Asia and America. Woaw. I have a soft spot...
Learning Aperture 1.5
DHL delivered my copy of Aperture 1.5 Beyond the Basics edited by Lynda.com early this morning. Can't wait to listen to Scott Bourne explain how to organise my photo workflow with Aperture. I love to listen to him, Leo,...
16 Jan 2007
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comments are offBulletproof Ajax
Jeremy Keith has just announced the sequel to DOM Scripting: Bulletproof Ajax (I picked it up on Twitter actually). It borrows the adjective (and the background image) from Dan Cederholm's Bulletproof Web Design. It is announced as available on...
Do you tweet?
I have just discovered Twitter and must confess it is kind of sticky. I especially enjoy the ability to post through via mobile phone. Unlike other IM, your message || status || tweet remains there when your computer is...
What about the Mac?
Now the reality distortion field has faded a little since Steve Jobs' keynote, a few observations materialised in my early morning dreaming. The iPhone announcement and presentation was a bomb. An investor's bomb, not necessarily a Mac loyal bomb....
An Event Apart 2007
Waow. I've just discovered An Event Apart through an ad on A List Apart. The list of speakers left me drooling with envy. Steve Krug Cameron Moll Andrew Kirkpatrick Dan Cederholm Molly Holzschlag Ethan Marcotte Jason Santa Maria Eric...
Welcome to 2007
Another reboot, another go, another cycle, another round, another song, another day, another year. I wish you a healthy and harmonious one to you all....
Empty set symbol
Oddly enough, I'm having trouble finding a way to display a empty set symbol that works on Internet Explorer (7 included). The symbol ∅ doesn't display correctly. It shows up as a square. Converting it to its HTML entity ∅...