Dec
27
Announcing the iPhone Suffle !
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I love The Onion, great news, fun podcasts, TV reports and so on. Watching one of their latest, here’s a nice tease about an upcoming Apple product I wasn’t really expecting. Steve Jobs will always amaze us with his ideas, reinventing the industries his company are stepping in !
Dec
27
How to Set Up Your New Computer
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The excellent Lifehacker just published a post about “How to Set Up Your New Computer” that you just got for the holidays. It’s about Windows, Linux and Mac but I’ll focuse here on the Mac side. A choice of 5 great articles that will let you know more about your brand new Mac.
Check out my Delicious links as well, I’ve published several links about Mac softwares, freewares, … that will help you as well.
- A Guide to Switching to a Mac
“There’s no need for you to waste your precious time figuring out the minutia of a new operating system. To ease this transition for all of the new Mac owners out there, here’s a quick guide for Mac newbies making the big switch.” - Build Your Mac with 20 Useful Downloads
“So you got a new Mac running a fresh Leopard install, and now you’ve got to load your Mac up with all your essential software.” - Top 10 Mac OS X Tweaks
“Mac OS X is a great operating system out of the box, but a few simple customizations can make it even better.” Ed: This guide was written regarding Tiger, but most of it will still apply to Leopard. - Top 10 Mac Utilities
“The system utilities that add extra polish and convenience to your Mac’s working environment. Most (but not all) of these little suckers are free, many live in your Mac’s System Preferences pane and on the menubar, and all of them greatly enhance your overall Mac experience.” - The Complete Guide to Mac/Windows Interoperability
“Today Mac OS and Windows can work together in harmony on the same home network, sharing files and printers, mounting one another’s drives and using the same equipment, like wireless routers and USB drives.”
Dec
25
My del.icio.us bookmarks for December 24th
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These are my links for December 24th:
- LinkedInABox - LinkedInABox? is a simple widget that can be embedded on any web page and provides a summary of your personal profile, as presented in your LinkedIn account.
- FontForge - An outline font editor that lets you create your own postscript, truetype, opentype, cid-keyed, multi-master, cff, svg and bitmap fonts, or edit existing ones. Also lets you convert one format to another.
- Top Best 55 Mac OS X Free And Opensource Software - Yet another list but this time, from the pov of an artist.
- Proper Gmail IMAP for iPhone & Apple Mail -
- 1 Awesome Gmail tip You Don?t Know about. Seriously - Just about when I thought I got everything out of Gmail, I discovered my top favorite feature.
- Lordosis: Why it Causes Lower Back Pain & How to Fix it - Your lower back has a natural inward curve. An excessive inward curve is called lordosis. Lordosis is a common cause of lower back pain in strength training & daily activities. This article will help you understand lordosis & how to treat it.
- 11 “Don’t-Tell-the-Wife” Secrets All Men Keep - There comes a time in every man’s life when he discovers the value of hiding the grosser parts of his nature. We’re not lying, exactly. We’re just making things…easier. But read on, and you may discover that the truth about men isn’t all that ugly.
- How to Track Down Anyone Online - While there’s still no killer, one-stop people search, there are more ways than ever to track down a long-lost friend, stalk an ex, or screen a potential date or employee.
- A Website about Corporate Identity - This website offers resources that contains additional information about corporate identity, including a bibliography and links to related sites on the internet and a catalogue containing descriptions of a large number of corporate identities.
- Quicksilver: The Guide - The videos and articles below should help you extend and use Quicksilver on deeper level that will increase productivity and make your OS X experience even more enjoyable.
- Add more power to 10.5’s screen sharing - In 10.5, screen sharing is based on Apple?s full RD, which offers more control over how remote screens are shared. Apple left some of that functionality in the more-limited screen sharing application, it?s just disabled by default.
- 50 Best WordPress Plugins for Power Blogging -
Dec
23
My del.icio.us bookmarks for December 19th through December 22nd
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These are my links for December 19th through December 22nd:
- Top ways to improve your English online - there are thousands of resources on the web that you can use to improve your English, here are a few of them that I?ve been using over years to brush up my language skills:
- Open Source Living - A collection of the Web’s best Open Source software, applications and references for a zero-cost / top quality digital experience.
- 1Miniyou: You custom gifts, bobbleheads and artoyz -
- The Bureau of Communication - “Forms” generator !
- Sno-Baller - Don’t you hate it when your hands get all frozen forming those snowballs? There’s a gadget that’s made to solve that problem, called the Sno-Baller.
- Review: Windows XP - “To be honest there is only one conclusion to be made; Microsoft has really outdone themselves in delivering a brand new operating system that really excels in all the areas where Vista was sub-optimal.”
Dec
20
Global… warning!
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Dec
19
Beauty is nothing without brain
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Dec
19
Not so recent but still a pleasure to watch
Dec
15
Starck on Design and god
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Very inspiring, brilliant and funny speech by Philippe Starck on the question “Why design” - and some of his thoughts on god ! To watch absolutely
Dec
14
These are my links for December 8th through December 13th:
- Timeline - Bee Docs’ Timeline - Timeline Software for Mac OS X
- Fifteen Foods that Burn More Calories than They Contain - We need to scarf down plenty of calories in a day, but if you’ve got a nasty snack habit tipping the scales to heavy, weblog Bootstrapper’s list of 15 foods that burn more calories than they contain might be the perfect addition to your grocery list.
- No Swiss DMCA - Référendum contre la Modification de la loi fédérale sur le droit d’auteur et les droits voisins du 5 Octobre 2007
- Free education blogs - Promethean Planet Hits Record Heights Click here for details Highlighted Links Educator Resources Portal Promethean Website Atlanta, GA–(Marketwire - December 4, 2007) - Promethean, a global leader in interactive technology, today ce
- How to take a course at MIT free — at home - Excellent article about Open Education Ressources and its deployements at the MIT including its impact on learning with real word examples - http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07322/834852-298.stm
Dec
7
These are my links for November 30th through December 6th:
- Tie a Tie in Under 10 Seconds -
- Walletex - Slimmest USB flash drive ever created credit-card size product
- 10 Places to Get a Free Business Education Online — Education-Portal.com - here are an increasing number of colleges, universities and nonprofit organizations offering free business courses online. Find out where you can sign up and what you can get from these cost-effective sources.
- 10 links to cool, high-rez images - There are many places to get free images, but here are a few that provide mostly public domain photos of a high quality
- ONfinity -
- Visual Dictionary Online - The excellent Merria Webster visual dictionnary online with more than 6000 images explained and detailed
- Tools for Creating Charts and Diagrams - An impressive list of tools for creating charts and diagrams including free, opensource, multiplatform and online solutions.
- Topomat.ch - Topomat Technologies, Géomatique, Géoinformatique et Systèmes d’Information Géographique - SIG