August 2008
39 posts
TSA: Carry-On Permitted and Prohibited Items In A... →
Tomorrow we are going to Chicago for 3 nights and 4 days.
Crazy as the security can be since 911, I was wondering if you can bring a disposable razor in your carry on. It looks like you can. I can shave and have a nice look for those fancy restaurants.
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The Art of iPhone Battery Life →
Get 36 hours of standby time from your iPhone.
I tested those settings, and yes I even got 72 hours of standby:
3G: Off (EDGE is enought for Phone use)
Wi-Fi: Off
Push: Off
Fetch: Hourly
Location Service: Off
Bluetooth: Off
I only open Wi-Fi at the end of the day at the office to synch up via MobileMe any meetings or contacts that I added during the day. I then turn it off until I arrived...
Google Moves to Mainstream RSS With A Simple Name... →
Subscribe to our RSS becomes “Follow this blog”. It’s about time that someone simplify this.
“Airline removes life vests to lighten planes!”
– CNN - After bring your own lunch, bring your own life-jacket.
“Zoom - Tu payes pas cher, mais tu restes à terre.”
– Jean-Yves Perropin - Suite à l’achat de son billet vers la France avec Zoom qui vient tout juste de déclarer faillite.
WatchSony BRAVIA ZX1, The Thinnest LCD To Date (9.9 mm).
Sony achieved that by separating the tuner from the display. The tuner (or MediaBox) is transmitting the image and sound via Wi-Fi. Now we are talking about a TV Frame on a wall.
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DataCase - Turn Your iPhone As A Flash Drive →
Using Wi-Fi, drop files on your iPhone and share them easily. You can view your files natively if they’re in MS Office, text, or PDF formats. Others on your network can drop files for you to view. At $6.99 on the App Store, it’s a pretty good deal.
iPhone 3Gs now outnumber originals →
The statistics are astounding:
6 million original iPhones were sold in about one year
It took 74 days for the first million first-generation iPhones to sell
A million iPhone 3Gs were sold the first weekend they were on sale
Sources estimate anywhere from 750,000 - 800,000 iPhones are being made each week
Apple is on track to sell more than 40 million iPhones in the next year
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Schramm's Take on His Favorite iPhone Apps →
I already talk about Aurora Feint, and I certainly agree with Mike, this is the most addictive game in the App Store, plus it’s free.
Matthieu, an office colleague, was not convinced about it until he felt asleep on it yesterday. It’s so addictive, I still miss my bus stop. What a game!
WatchAza’s Ubiquity Project - Reconnect the Disconnected Web.
Aza Raskin is currently Head of User Experience at Mozilla Labs. He is the son of noted human-computer interface expert Jef Raskin.
He’s the founder of Humanized, Inc., and Songza. Just that should convince you to watch the video and read his post.
(thanks Frank)
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Film Review > Pineapple Express
According to Wikipedia, Pineapple Express is a meteorological phenomenon which is characterized by a strong and persistent flow of atmospheric moisture and heavy rainfall.
According to me, Pineapple Express is a Seth Rogen-James Franco duo phenomenon which is characterized by a strong and persistent flow of laughs and heavy abdominal cramps.
I went to see the movie yesterday with a good friend...
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Île Sans Fil Montréal - Free Wi-Fi Around Montreal →
I’m a member of the non-profit organization from the beginning. Île-Sans-Fil Montréal now offer more than 150 Wi-FI hotspots to more than 75 000 members.
To get more information and see the map of hotspots To Sign-Up for the service
The project is still not accepted, but Île-Sans-Fil is currently working with Ville-de-Montréal to extend their network (english version at the bottom of...
Facebook Hits 100 Million Users →
MySpace took 3 years to get to this mark. It tooks 4.5 years for Facebook. I’m still amaze that so many users visit MySpace these days, but hey! The mystery of the Web is great.
Google Suggest Is Out Of Beta →
Looks like Google Suggest, the auto-complete for searches while you type your query in the input box, is finally good for primetime after 4 years in the lab. It should be out next week on the home page of Google.
(via TechCrunch)
New iPods Line Coming Soon! →
I miss that news last friday. Look like the Nano will have horizontal HD playback. We should expect a price drop also.
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Cycorder - Free iPhone Video Recorder →
Can’t wait to install it.
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My 2008/2009 TV Shows Season
Here’s my list of tv series for the season:
Dexter, season 3
24, season 7
Lost, season 5
Heroes, season 3
Prison Break, season 4 (I know I should quit this lame tv show, maybe this year I finally will)
Weeds, season 4,
Battlestar Galactica, season 4
Terminator, The Sarah Cornor Chronicles, season 2
Grey’s Anatomy, season 5
Nip Tuck, season 5
Entourage, season 5
Brotherhood,...
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Is a chicken just a chicken? →
Interesting post from my friend Jean-Michel about the lack of biodiversity in our plate.
One Week Outdoor
Next weel I’ll be near Lake Goerge, camping, hiking and playing outdoor. I’ll finish the week to my country house near Magog. So don’t expect any daily posts next week.
Have a nice week-end.
- JiPé
Les joies du service à la clientèle (prise 2)
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!
WatchThe Rise and Fall of Twitter
So funny! The original film is Downfall (Undergang, Der).
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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 get a first generation iPhone instead of the new iPhone 3G available at Rogers and Fido for a 3 years contract, many asked my why? The reason is simple and relied in three simple things:
I didn’t want a contract of 3 years with those rates.
I didn’t want to pay a minimum of $87.45...
Using Browser URL History To Estimate Gender →
Just smart! At the bottom of the post, you can click a button and do the test for yourself. I’m only a male at 96% ;(
Paul Cook wrote the initial javascript script called Social History. This script analyzes the CSS color of various links to determine whether or not the user has been to that site.
Mike modified the SocialHistory JS so that it polled the browser to find out which of the...
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Film Review > The Kite Runner
The Kite Runner (from the novel of the same name by Khaled Hosseini) tells the story of Amir, a well-to-do boy from the Wazir Akbar Khan district of Kabul, who is tormented by the guilt of abandoning his friend Hassan, the son of his father’s Hazara servant. The story is set against a backdrop of tumultuous events, from the fall of the monarchy in Afghanistan through the Soviet invasion,...
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!!!
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STM Mobile - Future Improvements
As many iPhone users and Montrealers, I bought (for only $0.99 on the Apple App Store) the STM Mobile iPhone application wrote by Ian Cloutier, an independent and not affiliated developer to the public transport organism. To build his database of bus route schedules, he used a technique called site scraping or sceen scraping to extract the data from the STM website.
The STM mobile application...
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The Full Steve Jobs Email on MobileMe
In an internal e-mail sent to Apple employees, Steve Jobs admitted that MobileMe was launched too early and not up to Apple standards.
Here’s the full email:
Team, The launch of MobileMe was not our finest hour. There are several things we could have done better: – MobileMe was simply not up to Apple’s standards – it clearly needed more time and testing. – Rather than launch...
Advices For Authors Who Wish To Be Published
Here are two links that I found from the 37Signals blog (who are presently looking for a publisher for the 2nd edition of their book Getting Real).
I’m not interested in publishing a book (at least not yet!), but I find the their personal experiences very interesting.
The first one from Seth Godin is: Advice for authors
So, what’s my best advice?
Build an asset. Large numbers of...
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Increase The iPhone Speaker Sound Volume by 100%
Before doing the surgery, I had my doubt, but after, the sound of my 1st gen iPhone speaker was clear and loud, at the point that I had to reduce it for some YouTube videos and iPod songs!
The operation is quite simple. You only need a needle to poke the film dust that cover the iPhone speaker (left of the cradle connector, the right one being the microphone). All the holes can be poke easily...
First Edition Of 37signals Live →
Yesterday, Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) host the first 37Signals Live, a Q&A about their business, Getting Real and other startup stuff with nearly 800 participants.
They use the free service of uStream.tv. On the left side, a live stream video and on the right a chat box where users could chat and ask questions.Unfortunately they didn’t record the session, so no...