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Sittings kills you

Via: Medical Billing And Coding Standing isn't the answer either: move regulary....


Change the Swiss currency symbol to CHF in Mac OS X

Mac OS X stubbornly displays the incorrect currency symbol for the Swiss franc: Fr. (or sFr. or SFr. depending on your OS version) instead of CHF which is the correct ISO symbol. This is a problem when invoicing applications rely...


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...


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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)

Words

I have been contemplating the idea of upgrading my desktop Mac since this spring. The latest 27" iMac (Quad-Core) seemed the perfect candidate, but the release of Apple's 27" Monitor last September made me stick with the Mac Pro...

Music

I had lunch with Anne (Atelier an) today at La Maison Rouge. It was good to catch up. Among other things she told me about her 20 year old son, Vivien who's a passionate percussionist and talented drummer like...

Pictures

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