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Kick Ass
Formidable. From: Kickstarter <no-reply@kickstarter.com> Subject: Update: Life In Perpetual Beta by Melissa Pierce Date: 21 mai 2010 21:00:05 HAEC Kick Ass And I can say that because Life In Perpetual Beta is over 100% funded and premieres in a mere...
Disappointing iPad 3G data plans in Switzerland
Swisscom published its iPad 3G data plan yesterday. The basic entry is a CHF 5.-/day (100Mb cap), followed by CHF 19.-/month (300 Mb cap) and CHF 39.-/month (2Gb cap). Disappointing when you compare these figures to their existing mobile offers...
Safari for iPhone ignores viewport settings on .mobi domains
While working on the redesign of a client's website, I ran into a weird issue with Safari for iPhone: whatever device-width I specified in the viewport meta tag, the web site would render at 100%. The viewport For Safari...
The State of the Internet
JESS3 designed and animated this for the JESS3 lecture at AIGA Baltimore in Feb 2010....
My favourite IM abbr
In my daily chats or tweets, I often get asked the question “What does XXX mean?” or receive the bare question mark suite “???” following the use of an abbreviation. A side effect of today's prevalence of text messaging,...
Mail 10.6 “Copy Address” fix
I stumbled on a welcoming Mail fix this morning which restores Leopard's (Mac OS 10.5) “Copy Address” behaviour. In Snow Leopard (Mac OS 10.6), Mail's “Copy Address” contextual menu command copies the name and enclosed the address in angle...
How to fix a Nik Software plug-in crash in Snow Leopard
Since I installed Snow Leopard (Mac OS 10.6) one of my Aperture plug-ins stopped working, crashing Aperture when launched (a horrible experience). I have several of Nik Software's plug-ins installed, but only Dfine 2.0 stopped working properly. Nik Software's...
Needles and haystacks and such
I love this one. The same curve applies to age vs wisdom. Enjoy. Orig. Jessica Hagy's This is indexed dated October 9th, 2009. Happy birthday little sis....
Yahoo! Meme
Yahoo! seems to be launching a Twitter/Tumblr service call Meme. Yahoo! has been very quiet about this and seems to be experimenting it in Portuguese and Spanish first. Found the new Internet hit? Send it to your Meme. Everyone...
All else being equal
Another great doodle from Jessica Hagy that says it all. Enjoy. Orig. Jessica Hagy's This is indexed dated August 26th, 2009....
Gentle upgrade to Snow Leopard (Mac OS 10.6)
It's a slow starter today, so while Snow Leopard gently installs on Jigme, my Mac Pro workstation, I thought I'd share my 2¢ worth of Snow Leopard (Mac OS 10.6) experience. The upgrade was as smooth as can be...
Tango Boo
We enjoyed Lalo Zanelli & Ombù Sextet at the Parc des Eaux-Vives last night, and I took the opportunity to play around with AudioBoo. Lalo Zanelli - former pianist of the Gotan Project - and his sextet gave the...
iPhone battery packs: Mophie Juice Pack Air vs FastMac iV
The iPhone is a great smartphone in numerous ways, except for its battery life which is under par for normal usage. Over the course of a normal day, I dock my phone at work, in the car and at...
Quadcam for iPhone OS 3.0 still unavailable
July 28th: QuadCamera v1.95 compatible iPhone OS v3.0 was released today. Hurray! iPhone OS v3.0 has been release for a month now, and most of the apps I use have been updated to run on this latest release. Except...
Information overload and/or closet organizers
So true. Orig. Jessica Hagy's This is indexed dated July 8th, 2009....
Tweet push
I've been playing around with a number of Twitter clients which offer push notification in one way or another, and the the closest I got to finding what I'm looking for was Tweet Push. Tweet Push isn't a Twitter...
Short
I've been playing around with Shorty recently, Khoi Vinh's simple tool for creating shorter, human- readable links from long URLs. Like tinyurl or tr.im but hosted on your own server. The problem I was running into was my long...
Prowl, a Growl Client for iPhone
I discovered Prowl over breakfast this morning and couldn't resist trying it out. Prowl is a Growl client for iPhone. Notifications from your Mac can be sent to your iPhone over push, with a full range of customization. With...
Web Trend Map goes dot com
Earlier this year I mentioned that Information Architects Japan (iA) had published their annual Web Trend Map (v4) onto the Tokyo Metro map. Well, currently iA is building an interactive version of the Web Trend Map under webtrendmap.com which...
Do you wonder?
I love Jessica Hagy's doodles and couldn't resist sharing with you her last one which happens to be very relevant on a personal level. Enjoy. Orig. Jessica Hagy's This is indexed dated June 23rd, 2009....
iPhone v3.0 OS MMS and tethering
A quick post to share with you how I managed to activate tethering (Swisscom) on my iPhone 3G running iPhone OS 3.0 (build 7a341). The 3.0 update was seemless. I downloaded my developer's copy and updated the iPhone via...
Twitterverse
Discover the twirl of services and applications that gravitate from or around Twitter. Twitter by all means is a micro social network, but I was surprised to discover a wealth of macro services I had never heard of. I...
Last Day Dream
Last Day Dream [HD] from Chris Milk on Vimeo. "Last Day Dream" a man watches his life pass before him Produced for the 42 Second Dream Film Festival Beijing China 2009 www.42x42.com Shot entirely on Lensbaby Lenses and Canon 5D...
“Taking Your Talent to the Web” is now a free downloadable book
This book was initially published in 2001, and it took me ages to find a copy as it was out of print when I discovered its existance. Eight years later, most of the advice and vision remains true and spot-on.
The iTunes Store's missing songs
The iTunes Store introduced variable pricing and states it is 100% DRM free since last Tuesday. Maybe. Maybe not. I have regularly updated my iTS purchases to the 256kbps ACC/DRM free versions as they became available, so I naturally...
What are web standards?
An interview of Jeffrey Zeldman on web standards by Big Think. Found in the daily report on zeldman.com. Just under ten minutes with the man without whom the web standards would probably not have taken off. Author of “Designing...
Web Trend Map v4
Information Architects Japan (iA) have published their annual Web Trend Map (v4) which lists the top 50 most influential domains (333), and the people (111) associated with them onto the Tokyo Metro map. The domains and people are selected...
Coeur à Choeur
Last night I discovered the Chorale des Bains' new show named “Choeur à Coeur” at La Traverse in the Paquis. So much more than a traditional choir, the Chorale des Bains delivers a full fledge show, tied up in...
I Can Make You A CSS Zen Master
I Can Make You A CSS Zen Master from Andy Clarke on Vimeo. LOL Ori: For a Beautiful Web Blog...
Volchok
Last night I lived one of those magical moments life is punctuated with. We walked down the road to the place Audéoud, at Chêne-Bougeries, to take part of the Festival des 20 ans du Théâtre-Cirqule. Three circus tents, a friendly...
Microsoft Sustainability
May 2009: Apparently this video has been pulled off Vimeo. You can find it in the Work section of Oh, Hello. Microsoft Sustainability from Kray Cédric on Vimeo. This is a cool presentation that would have found its place at...
Get your MacBook to sleep smart
I almost never shutdown my MacBook Pro, I always send it to sleep. Faster wake up time, this behaviour makes sense on a laptop. Only, it can take ages for the MacBook to actually go to sleep. Check how long it takes between the moment you close the lip, and the power led start pulsing. Ages.
An evening with Violeta
I discovered Violeta Parra, a Chilean poet and visual artist, through an remarkable performance of Michèle Millner together with Yves Cerf, Paco Chambi and Sylvain Fournier last might at the AMR. Michèle Millner interprets Violeta Parra with her heart...
Snowy break in Champéry
Waow. Get the goggles out kids… and see you the other side pals....
Mobile Aperture
As much as I like Aperture, one of its annoying wekanesses is the lack of support of multiple librairies, or network based librairies. Yes, you can have multiple librairies per se, but you can only open one at a...
Faut-il
“ Faut-il saupoudrer un peu de pardon sur la haine afin de la dissoudre Faut-il mélanger les circonstances atténuantes aux injures pour les délayer Comment stopper l'hémorragie de mots rageurs Comment contenir toutes ces questions qui pondent des oeufs Et voir à...
Shazam wins the 2008 Best App Ever award
Winners of the 2008 Best App Ever Awards (according to 148apps.com and their nomination committee) were announced at the 2009 MacWorld Expo in San Francisco on January 7th, 2009. Shazam won big in the “Best Overall”, “Most Innovative”, and...
Animoto for the iPhone
As a followup to the Animoto's post, I have just discovered the Animoto iPhone application (iTS link). A nifty little application that lets you build free 30 seconds long videos from images stored on your iPhone. Select 8 or...
The MacBook Wheel
Only minutes before Apple's last MWSF Keynote. These guys are sooooo good. Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard By the Onion News Network (Thanks Andy!)....
Versions
I've used a fair number of Subversion clients for the Mac but have always reverted back to the command line or to TextMate's build-in svn support. Although most of them did the job, none of them were polished enough to give the user experience I expect from a Mac application until I discovered Versions last August.
Animoto - clever slideshows
I have just discovered animoto, a different way of creating slideshows from local or online stored image files. Basically, it's a nifty online Flash app that lets you create a free 30 seconds long slideshow video from your photos....
Hasta la vista, baby
… and the moral of the story: it takes 4 Macs to overtake a PC running Windows (sic!) Where's the Linux bot? Somewhat inspired from the Transformers, I, Robot and Terminator. Orig: YouTube...
A West African storytelling Sunday afternoon
Almost a year ago day for day, I wrote about the enchanting Moroccan tales of Hamed Bouzzine and how we all got wrapped up in them. Yesterday, it was two West African storytellers, or “griots“, that brightened up my...
VisualHub discontinued
I first heard about Techspansion closing through lynxman's Twitter feed before reading the notice that is displayed when you launch the application. ...After much soul-searching (it's not you, it's me), for personal reasons, Techspansion is closing its virtual doors....
Geneva Apple Store is open
The Geneva Apple Store opened yesterday at 17:00 CET. It is Apple's 242nd store worldwide. I wasn't sure to attend, but curiosity got the best of me. Not curiosity of the store itself as I was very much sure...
Social unnetworking
I have a strange relationship with technology lately. Things tend to break, malfunction, bug more often than usual. My levels of electrostatic fluid must be high. Anyway, with the summer closing in and automn's cold lick too close to...
+24d
Monday morning 0630a.Showered. Sun is rising.Time for printer lifting. Let's make this week smoother than the previous one....
Lost my sunshine
Gosh it's wet out there. Wet and humid. It's been raining buckets ever since I got up earlier on. The kind of weather that entices you to snuggle up in bed and forget about the outside world all together....
For a beautiful web
Yesterday, Andy Clarke launched For A Beautiful Web!, a site presenting a series of master classes and workshops on creative design and training for the web. The initial master class "Visual Web Design Master Class For A Beautiful Web"...
Ctrl-P-Print
Eddie Izzard's Encore on Computers - just for a 7' laugh… Orig: YouTube...
My 2 cents worth of iPhone tips for Switzerland
Important note: please bear in mind that this post relates to a first generation iPhone running 1.x software. It's almost a month now that I've received my iPhone, and I thought it might be time to share a few...
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 ∅...