Jun
30
Notify readers of a private tumblr blog by email
June 30, 2013 | Leave a Comment
These past two months, I’ve helped two people start a tumblr blog. One of them is just a place for my daughter’s day care to share pictures of children with the parents. For obvious reasons, this blog is private. Tumblr is simple to use and the day care had no problem posting their photos and […]
May
30
My iMac Install List
May 30, 2013 | Leave a Comment
After four years of intense use, I decided to renew my iMac this year, when the new great looking, super slim, incredibly fast, shiny new iMac 27 arrived, I decided to not carry all my stuff over at once but take the time to reinstall what I used the most and leave most of my […]
May
27
Aria2 : Console Download Manager (Linux / OS X)
May 27, 2013 | Leave a Comment
We live in an awesome place in the country and love every minute of it, the only possible drawback being that our Internet bandwidth is not what it used to be 😉 . We can’t complain though, even Netflix works, but downloading big files (such as a linux dristrib) is almost impossible. Eventually, we realized […]
Apr
16
The iPad is not killing the notebook, it is suicide
April 16, 2013 | Leave a Comment
Warning : personal life and rant in this post, keep reading at your own risk. I open Zite once a day and flip through the latest Programming, Movies and Tech news. This evening – again – I captured a glimpse of an article title something like “Steve Jobs was right: the iPad killed the notebook”. […]
Jan
31
How to install Dropbox client on a windowless debian server
January 31, 2013 | Leave a Comment
I use Dropbox to sync, among other things, many of my application and profile settings (.bashrc files for example or Sublime Text preferences). I wanted to synchronize these same files with my Debian server even though it does not have a graphical interface installed. Good news, it’s possible. Yes, Dropbox rocks ! How to Download […]
Jan
1
Happy New Year
January 1, 2013 | Leave a Comment
2012 in a glance
Aug
18
How to connect a livebox and a freebox subnets (French)
August 18, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Livebox and Freebox are DSL box provided by Orange and Free Internet providers to their customers in France. These  boxes allow their owners to connect to the Internet (DSL), create a home network (router, wifi access point), make Voice Over IP calls and watch TV. They are known in France as “quadruple play boxes” and […]
Feb
25
From TextMate to Sublime Text 2
February 25, 2012 | 1 Comment
That’s it, I have switched away from the flag ship text editor of all web dev running OS X. Why ? I gave Sublime Text 2 a try after upgrading to Lion. With Lion, Textmate started acting quirky. I had display bugs when closing a tab sometimes. At first, I did’t care much for Sublime’s […]
Oct
9
Mac OS X Lion – iCal default event length
October 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment
 I upgraded to OS X Lion on release day (I’m more of a geek all the time) and I was very confused with iCal. It immediatly appeared that all the events I created were now set to “all day” by default and I found this very annoying (they used to be set for the default […]
Sep
26
Firefox: download a swf and wordpress it
September 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Just a quick note on how to achieve the following purpose. Say you have a 3 months old baby and your mother sends you a 3 month old birthday ecard. Say you wish to download the animation of that ecard and share it on the blog you keep for your family and close friends. I […]