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Using Tumblr as a travel log

The Empty Set has been on the back burner for a little while now, one reason being that we travelled back to India this winter for a little under a month. Add to that the end of year rush...


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...


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...


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...


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...


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...


.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...


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...


Watch that trailing slash

The trailing slash on URLs referencing directories has always bugged me because it doesn't look good. I am a bit of a URL fetishist, I like URLs to be simple and clear and without a trailing slash. But that...


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...


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...


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About

Hello, my name is David Roessli. I am a freelance web designer and developer based in Geneva, Switzerland.

This weblog is an nth attempt to solve my multiple online personalities and weblog/rss feeds burnout issues. (more)

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Waiter Rant book cover

I haven't posted many book reviews since I relaunched this weblog. Not that I didn't want to, or was at a loss. Quite the contrary. I have a number of books I would { have } like{ed} to talk...

Music

Last night was magical. We were teleported to Les Docks in Lausanne to listen to Nouvelle Vague in concert. It was my first time at Les Docks and I found the place very friendly and well laid out. The...

Pictures

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