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 [...]

Oct

9

Fixing unread email count with Mail.app and GMail

October 9, 2011 | Leave a Comment

If you are using Mail.app and GMail you might have noticed that emails you read (in Mail.app) are counted as unread in your sidebar. If you expend the labels in your sidebar, you will notice the unread emails all belong to the default imap GMail labels : I’ve finally found how to fix this. Simply [...]

Aug

3

Mac OS X: mount a network drive at startup

August 3, 2011 | 1 Comment

In case you are sharing a disk over network and you want it to be available on your Mac automatically at boot up, you can have it auto mount at login. Go to System Preferences > Users & Groups. Make sure your user is selected on the left and go to the Login Items tab [...]

Jul

31

Router, VPN and American IP

July 31, 2011 | 1 Comment

I happen to know an American in Paris. Expats have a wide range of specific problems that most people don’t really ever worry over, for example : how do you teach a child two languages (hoping the child won’t mix them up) do you have to declare/pay taxes in your country of origin ? which [...]

Jul

31

Zend Server Community Edition for Mac OS X – MySQL permissions

July 31, 2011 | 2 Comments

I upgraded to Lion and everything went fine. Just a minor – known – issue with MySQL server as installed by the Zend Server Community Edition. I already wrote about solving the mysql error which prevents the server from starting. Researching this again, I found more information about it. Whether running on OS X or [...]

Jul

28

Move your mySQL data on OS X

July 28, 2011 | 3 Comments

I wanted to change the location of my SQL databases in order for them to be in my user’s home folder (that way, my databases would be portable as I travel with my user’s home folder). By default, when you install mySQL on OS X, everything is located at /usr/local/mysql and the data folder (the [...]

Jun

12

Watching movies on the iPad

June 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment

One of the thing I wanted to do with the iPad was to watch movies on the go (remember the last time you flew transatlantic and you had to watch The Karate Kid ?…) At this point, I had no Movies, nor TV Shows in my iTunes so I am really starting from scratch here. [...]

Jun

10

MPD: Music Player Daemon

June 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment

About a year and a half ago, the price of Hard Drives (and their size) suddenly made it possible for us to imagine having most of our content (music, DVDs) archived on Hard Drives and easily accessible across devices. As it turns out, we are still in the process of importing some of our CDs [...]

Apr

26

A Single User Across Multiple Computers

April 26, 2011 | 1 Comment

The problem : The problem is famous : how to keep multiple computers in sync in order to have access to our data no matter where we are, no matter which computer we are using. It isn’t the first time I wonder about how to improve this aspect of my computer setup and I must [...]

Apr

24

Dead iMac, a geek’s nightmare (with Happy Ending)

April 24, 2011 | 1 Comment

On tuesday this week, my iMac started acting up. It would boot successfully, run normally for a while but sometimes hang from 20 to 60 seconds in a row with the spinning beach ball cursor. I quickly identified two things : hangs would occur when launching apps or triggering the launcher (spotlight, Alfred) which meant [...]

keep looking »