July 2008
65 posts
T3 Motion - The Terminator Segway
Here are what we saw this afternoon at the door of our building: Two new T3 Motion Electric Security Vehicules.
I never seen something so awful. Rather seeing our SPVM policemen on Segway, than those monstrosities.
“The best company is one in which the employees are so engaged in their work that...”
– Don’t ask employees to be passionate about the company!
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iPhone Protective Film
Twice I’ve been to the Montreal Apple Store this week.
Once, to get the Power Support Crystal Film for my iPhone 2G.
Second, to return the product as it was made only for the iPhone 3G (as the dimensions are slightly different between the iPhone 2G and 3G).
The thing is, they don’t sell the Crystal Protective Film for the iPhone 2G in Canada. Remember, we are not even suppose to...
“A manager’s job is to make sure things get done without doing a thing.
In...”
– Octavian Mihai - A manager’s job
Amen!
TumblePhone - iPhone Optimised Interface for... →
Here’s mine http://www.tumblephone.com/jpcyr
Nice and slick!
Phillip Toledano - Days with My Father →
With an outstanding simplicity and an unique navigation, the words and photos of this web site are telling a wonderful and sad story.
After visiting and going through the site, let me know if you didn’t call your parents to say: “I love you”.
And please remember that life is short…
(via Jason at 37Signals)
UserVoice - Customer Feedback 2.0 →
UserVoice helps companies, bloggers and community leaders answer the question “What do users really want?”
A good user feedback service along side other analytic and vizualize tools like Google Analytics, CrazyEgg and ClickTale to achieve your goals by understanding better your visitors.
See a demo of UserVoice here Watch a video tour of UserVoice here
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MsgFiler - File Your Emails Easily in Apple Mail. →
“MsgFiler is a plug-in for Apple Mail which quickly files emails into existing mailbox folders. MsgFiler’s fast searching means you just have to type a few characters to find the right mailbox. Move selected messages with a click or open a mailbox without having to navigate the mailbox folder pane. MsgFiler is optimized for keyboard-only usage, perfect for Apple Mail power users.”
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Cuil - The Next Google Killer? →
Anna Patterson’s (now Ex-Googler) last Internet search engine was so impressive that industry leader Google Inc. bought the technology in 2004 to upgrade its own system.
She believes her latest invention is even more valuable - only this time it’s not for sale. Patterson instead intends to upstage Google, which she quit in 2006 to develop a more comprehensive and efficient way to...
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“It won’t just be a phone, a web browser and an iPod in your pocket....”
– Charlie Sorrel talking about the upcoming iPhone firmware 2.1 which will bring Turn-by-Turn GPS (iPhone will not only know where you are, but in which direction you are going and how fast you are moving).
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Shazam - The Echelon of Music Spectrum →
Shazam is a music portal, but more importantly it’s also an iPhone App to record, through the iPhone microphone, a snippet (8 to 12 seconds) of an unknown music and get the result of what song, artist, album it is.
The App will also give you the link to the iTunes Store and also the link the the music video on YouTube if there is any.
And it’s flawless. The 10 times I tried it,...
Blindfold Desire
One of our client send us an inspiration site for his new boutique/shopping section that he would like to be added to his own site. It looks more like a showcase of products than a real shopping online store to promote some luxury travel and leisure accessories.
When you find an item you would like to buy in their catalogue, you are transported to the shopping site of the manufacturer/partner...
I Can Keep My Job Two More Weeks →
I can keep my job two more weeks at CloudRaker since I wrote two more posts on the CloudRaker blog.
Here are my posts:
This Is Just A Goodbye
Ak the Sherpa
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How To Change Firefox 3's URL Bar Behavior →
Under Mac, in Firefox 3, clicking the URL bar is selecting the entire URL instead of positioning the your cursor where you want it. It’s dead annoying.
Here’s, from WebMonkey, a simple thing to do to change this:
Type about:config in the URL bar, approved the warning.
Look for browser.urlbar.clickSelectAll and put it to false.
Look for the browser.urlbar.doubleClickSelectAll and...
Canadian Wireless Spectrum Auction Closed:... →
A new Canadian GSM Wireless Network is under way. Viva Libre! The competition will be healty for the consumer as Rogers (who also own Fido) is operating the only GSM network in Canada.
“The three existing telecommunication companies, namely Bell Canada, Rogers and Telus won additional frequencies in most provinces. Rogers Wireless alone brought to the table $999 million, in an auction...
Google In Final Negotiations To Acquire Digg For... →
I missed that big news today. I didn’t even know that Google and Digg were in negociation since many months. The giant continue to grow…
UPDATE: Google finally decide to walk away.
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iClarified - How to Unlock/Jailbreak Your 2.0 2G... →
It’s out! YEAH!
Note: since the iClarified unlock tutorial has been writen, the iPhone Dev Team has update their Pwnage Tool to 2.0.1. Now It better detects the BIN files on your computer and you don’t have to manually select them as it is specified in the guide.
To unlock your iPhone 3G, go here.
Montreal Apple Store Opens Friday At 17h00 →
YES!
After years of having an Apple Store in Laval, a new Apple store will finally opens in downtown Montreal on Ste-Catherine street, Friday July 25th at 17h00.
(photo by Alain Vezina)
You already can subscribe to workshops.
Montreal Apple Store 1321 Rue Ste-Catherine Ouest Montréal, Quebec H3G 1P7
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iPhone 2.0: The glory wore off in wash →
It feels great to still have an old iPhone with firmware 1.1.4 when you read this post about all the problems the new 2.0 firmware have.
Look like Apple is looking to launch the new-and-improve firmware 2.1 in September.
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Why People Are Paying For iPhone Applications →
“Apple has significantly improved the usability of paying for an application. Apple has made it drop dead simple for developers to charge for applications and for consumers to purchase applications… That’s why “free” is no longer the most popular price on the App Store, because Apple has solved many of the usability problems that previous caused the friction which created The Penny Gap.”
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“I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable...”
– Philip Dusenberry (via simko)
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OS X: Fix Your Home and End Keys with KeyFixer →
KeyFixer remaps your Home and End keys so they move the keyboard cursor to the beginning or end of a line, duplicating the behavior of the Home and End keys in Windows.
Pretty handy for Windows-Mac switcher like me.
KeyFixer and KeyFixer for Firefox 3
SoundCloud - Send, Share and Received Music for... →
SoundCloud is an online audio platform for music professionals. We got fed up with the crappy tools available for sending and receiving music and felt we’d do things a little different. This is our version of how things should be.
Send tracks to one or 1000 people; any size, any format, super fast and flexible.
Email, FTP and MegaSuperSendFile all suck for receiving music. Get a music only...
Amazon Gets Their Own iTune Movie Store →
It’s called Unbox and they finally decide to stream the movie instead of letting members download them. They also signed a deal with Sony to include the service in their Bravia Flat Screen Series. The customers will need to buy a Bravia Internet Video Link for $300 to access the service.
You can sign-up for the Beta and get a $5 discount on any purchase. Most of the TV series and Movies are...
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Instapaper →
A fast, easy, free tool to save web pages for reading later.
You find something you want to read, but you don’t have time now. You click .
When you have time to read, you come here on your computer or iPhone and get whatever you wanted to read.
What a brillant idea.
(thx to Antoine)
Twitter-Summize →
Build a start-up using the API of a popular service. Build your community around it, let the mother company notice you and finally buy you up. This is the little story of Summize, the twitter search engine.
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Apple Sells One Million iPhone 3Gs in First... →
One million units of the iPhone 3G in 3 days! The 10 millions objective is maybe now possible…
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Less is more - The Digital Renaissance by Phil...
Few months ago, April 8th 2008 actually, I had the chance to go a conference on Gaming gave by Interfaces Montreal. All the majors like EA and Ubisoft where there, but there was also one guy alone, doing his own indie game called Fez. His name is Phil Fish and he did quite an impression on the crowd.
Here’s the video of Phil Fish on indie gaming that he presented that evening (because of...
Before I get fired… →
My single and latest post on the CloudRaker blog, the company I work for:
Before I even begin, I have to say that I didn’t really have a choice but to write this post. For several weeks now, I’ve been harassed, pursued and taxed to write on this corporate blog by my boss. Facing my perpetual refusals to write and participate, my boss, as a good torturer\mentor, decided to use his last weapon:...
WatchOMG Lightning strike
I don’t know how she got hit, but shit it’s scary. It makes you think twice before shooting under the rain.
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WatchA map showing the Growth of Walmart across the United States. Year-by-year, starting in 1962.
It’s like watching a virus grow.
(via Kottke)
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Nice New Apps For Your New iPhone →
Shozu, Urbanspoon and Jott are my best in the list. I still find Loopt and Limbo to limitative yet. Maybe future development will make them more appealing.
Here’s another post for good app review by Wired.
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iPhone App Store: The Early List of Top Downloads →
It’s crazy and it will be even more crazy beginning tomorrow when most the fans will get their new iPhone 3G.
The 2.0 firmware for the iPhone has not been even release yet officially by Apple that you can download it via MacRumors. Many if not all new applications running on the iPhone need the upgrade.
The iTune iPhone/iTouch App store is open since less then a day now and already...
The Pirate Bay Wants to Encrypt the Entire... →
It remembers me of Zero-Knowledge System, for who I work for in 2000, who proposed to encrypt all your Internet network transfer with their client software called Freedom. Everything fails at that time as the triple 128 bits encryption was slowing down your high speed DSL or Cable Internet access back to a 56 Kb modem.
Hope this new Transparent end-to-end encryption for the Internets or...
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Ping.fm - Update all of your social networks at... →
I’m using Ping.fm service since a week now for updating my status and micro-blogging on many social sites at once and it works very well.
They support all the most and less popular social sites. And I mean ALL of them. Even the latest micro-blogging platform identi.ca that came out last week is supported.
You can update your status and micro-blog many ways, by email, WAP, iPhone WebApp,...
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Japan go crazy for the iPhone →
People are already inline!