2008

Aug

One Week Outdoor

Next weel I’ll be near Lake Goerge, camping, hiking and playing outdoor. I’ll finish the...

Les joies du service à la clientèle...

Fred: Bonjour j'aimerais avoir le service de cable SVP.
Rep: Votre adresse?
Fred: 1894 Nom-de-la-rue
Rep: Le service n'est pas disponible pour votre adresse.
Fred: Mais mon voisin au 1896, qui habite dans le même immeuble a accès au service.
Rep: C'est possible, mais pas vous.
Fred: Mais il n'y a qu'une boïte de jonction pour la distribution du câble dans l'immeuble, il est donc impossible que je ne puisse pas l'avoir.
Rep: C'est un système complexe Monsieur, c'est possible.
Fred: Mais je comprends pas, vous pourriez m'expliquer SVP.
Rep: Non, c'est trop complexe.
Fred: Je veux parler à votre superviseur SVP.
Rep: Non, il vous diras la même chose.
Fred: Mais je veux parler à quelqu'un d'autre. Alors je rappel et je vais parler à quelqu'un autre.
Rep: Voilà!

The Rise and Fall of Twitter So funny! The original film is Downfall (Undergang, Der).

An iPhone Without Any Contract

We are now 5 iPhone owners here at the office and probably more in a near future.When I decided to...

Using Browser URL History To Estimate Gender

Film Review > The Kite Runner

The Kite Runner (from the novel of the same name by Khaled Hosseini) tells the story of Amir, a...

Les joies du service à la clientèle

Fred: Oui bonjour j'aimerais avoir de l'information sur vos services.
Rep: Donnez moi votre téléphone, quelqu'un vous rappelera.
Fred: Excellent. Quand puis-je espérer une réponse?
Rep: Je ne peux pas vous donner de délais.
Fred: Mais on parle de quoi, 3 heures, 3 jours, 3 semaines?
Rep: Je ne peux pas vous donner de délais.
Fred: Mais vous êtes en train de me dire qu'il se peut qu'il me rappel jamais!
Rep: Je ne peux pas vous donner de délais.
Fred: Bon ok merci!!!

STM Mobile - Future Improvements

As many iPhone users and Montrealers, I bought (for only $0.99 on the Apple App Store) the STM...

The Full Steve Jobs Email on MobileMe

In an internal e-mail sent to Apple employees, Steve Jobs admitted that MobileMe was launched too...

Advices For Authors Who Wish To Be...

Here are two links that I found from the 37Signals blog (who are presently looking for a publisher...

Loose Dinosaur at the Natural History Museum in LA. I didnt’ see it by myself, but it looks...

Increase The iPhone Speaker Sound Volume...

Before doing the surgery, I had my doubt, but after, the sound of my 1st gen iPhone speaker was...

First Edition Of 37signals Live

Jul

T3 Motion - The Terminator Segway

Here are what we saw this afternoon at the door of our building: Two new T3 Motion Electric Security...

“The best company is one in which the employees are so...”
— Don’t ask employees to be...

Aurora Feint: The Beginning (Demo) Certainly the best free game on the App Store at the moment. So...

iPhone Protective Film

Twice I’ve been to the Montreal Apple Store this week. Once, to get the Power Support Crystal...

“A manager’s job is to make sure things get done...”
— Octavian Mihai - A...

TumblePhone - iPhone Optimised Interface for...

BMW Ad for Premium Selection Used Cars… How can you...

Phillip Toledano - Days with My Father

Visual Voicemail works on an unlocked first gen iPhone on Rogers and Fido. Good news for the ones...

UserVoice - Customer Feedback 2.0

MsgFiler - File Your Emails Easily in Apple...

Cuil - The Next Google Killer?

“It won’t just be a phone, a web browser and an iPod in...”
— Charlie Sorrel talking about...

Shazam - The Echelon of Music Spectrum

Blindfold Desire

One of our client send us an inspiration site for his new boutique/shopping section that he would...

I Can Keep My Job Two More Weeks

How To Change Firefox 3's URL Bar Behavior

Canadian Wireless Spectrum Auction Closed:...

Google In Final Negotiations To Acquire Digg...

iClarified - How to Unlock/Jailbreak Your 2.0...

Montreal Apple Store Opens Friday At 17h00

iPhone 2.0: The glory wore off in wash

Martin Matte - La brocheuse Ce matin, via mon iPhone, j’ai regardé cette petite vidéo de...

Why People Are Paying For iPhone...

“My Drive Through” performed by Santogold, Julian Casablancas and N.E.R.D. Produced by Pharrell...

“I have always believed that writing advertisements is the...”
— Philip Dusenberry (via simko)

OS X: Fix Your Home and End Keys with...

You are on a diet (or a big fat sugar junky), a new law is...

Requiem For A Day Off I saw the trailer nearly a year ago, but Fred, send it back to me today, and...

SoundCloud - Send, Share and Received Music...

Amazon Gets Their Own iTune Movie Store

Radiohead - House of Cards In Radiohead’s new video for “House of Cards” from the...

Segway BETA. It all begins somewhere…

Twitter-Summize

Apple Sells One Million iPhone 3Gs in First...

Dancing feet. I just like stop-motion. I can eat this all day long. Here’s one that I did,...

Less is more - The Digital Renaissance...

Few months ago, April 8th 2008 actually, I had the chance to go a conference on Gaming gave by...

Creative Juice. I wish I had some of it in the morning before my day begins. (via François Côté)

Before I get fired…

OMG Lightning strike I don’t know how she got hit, but shit it’s scary. It makes you...

The iPhone 2.0 OS has been unlocked. Good news! (via...

For the day of the new iPhone 3G, please take one minute of...

A map showing the Growth of Walmart across the United States. Year-by-year, starting in 1962. It’s...

Nice New Apps For Your New iPhone

iPhone App Store: The Early List of Top...

The Pirate Bay Wants to Encrypt the Entire...

Kaamelott, La Oude En mars je vous ai parlé de Kaamelott, cette serie de court épisodes françaises...

Ping.fm - Update all of your social networks...

Japan go crazy for the iPhone

The State of the Web - Summer 2008

Lively: Google Launches Virtual World

Tempo Time Tracking

I’ve always been fan of sketchnotes. Everytime...

“I went through World War II, the noise doesn’t...

“Ideas on their own are just not that important. It’s...”
— I had that idea years ago! -...

Identi.ca, a "Twitter like" based in...

280 Slides - Keynote Online

Davenport Underwear - Cream Pie fight Working on ideas for a beer brand todays, we found that video...

Firefox 3 Wins Guinness Record for Most...

Grocery Store Wars It came nearly a year ago, but I never had the chance to see it before this...

Apple Confirms: No Online iPhone 3G Sales,...

Is Email In Danger?

Adobe Google and Yahoo Join Forces To Make...

FuckYouRogers.com

Jun

For the next two weeks, I will be on vacation in Hawaii, on...

Google Gears For The New Platform War

Never you’ll be so happy to cross the street. It’s coming from a LA collective named...

Yahoo! Going No Where...

My personal quest to get listed on the...

For a while, I wish one of my post will get listed on the Tumblr Radar, but I never seen any. Once,...

Jay and Seth vs. The Apocalypse From YouTube to the Big Screen. Mandate Pictures is turning a short...

Unbelievable zoom for this Canon Digi Super Lens (9.5mm to a 700mm). Very fascinating video from the...

UX > Nice Photographe Portfolio

Firefox 3 RC3 and Final Version June 17th

Film Review > Cleaner

A former cop (Jackson) who now earns a wage as a crime scene cleaner unknowingly participates in a...

Apple OS X Snow Leopard - Phase 2 Of World...

Digital Web Magazine - Why Do Web Startups...

37Signals is Looking For A New Designer

Shape Shifting Car by BMW. Instead of steel, aluminum or even carbon fiber, the GINA Light...

Y Combinator diaries

I Am A Member Of The Cult Of iPhone

Here’s a little Steevee toy for your kids ;)

jQuery User Interface 1.5

Film Review > The Kingdom

After a terrorist attack to an American housing compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where families...

New iPhone 3G for only 199$ available...

3G (like we didn’t know) Thinner (I don’t know where they got that as the new iPhone...

iPhone 2.0 Sofware New Features (Live...

iPhone 2.0 software update (available in early for July. Free for iPhone owners, $9.99 for iPod...

New iPhone - Live Coverage Of The WWDC2008...

Film Review > The Hunting Party

A young journalist, a seasoned cameraman and a discredited war correspondent (Richard Gere) embark...

“When we launched, we launched with over a million titles....”
— Jeff Bezos in a recent Vanity...

The Big Questions

“Stop making excuses for why you can’t do this or that in the...”
— Finding the natural size for...

Web designers should do their own HTML/CSS

Position Art - The world is my canvas

YouTube is gaining on TV or is it also counting Torrent?...

Star Wars - A New Hope in ASCII

Tag Galaxy - A Space View At Tagging

Trulia Snapshot - Homes for sale

Slow Motion Skateboarding With Crazy Explosions presented by Lakai Limited Footwear on a music by...

YouTube Just Add Video Annotation

Firefox RC2 Release - The last one before the...

Alphabet Furnitures

Flickr group dedicated to Storm Troopin. Hilarious!

Read at Work and Fool Your Boss

70 Amazing Business Cards

Social Media T-Shirt

Color Scheme Generator From Photo or Images

Trouble at eBay

iTunes Movies Rental Now In Canada

Linksys WRT600N “Something that costs $180 should not...

Here’s what happen when you search for the word...

UX > Apple WWDC08 - Schedules

Skipping Photoshop In The Process - The...

37Signals' Amazon S3 Stats

Google’s Panoramio Launches Look Around

Cellphone compagnies are evil… Here’s the proof. Update: This an ad from Net10, a...

Design Stencils - Yahoo! Design Pattern...

Banquet from the indie rock band Bloc Party. I just cannot stop listening to this song. It must be...

iPhone Jukebox We recorded this little video when my boss and I where in a business trip to...

@answerme - Q&A in Twitter

“Baby Boomers + Wish to stay in shape and healthy + Yoga +...”
— The Star

IETester - The single browser to test...

Goosh.org - Google on a nutshell