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 [...]

Sep

26

Firefox: download a swf and wordpress it

September 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Just a quick note on how to achieve the following purpose. Say you have a 3 months old baby and your mother sends you a 3 month old birthday ecard. Say you wish to download the animation of that ecard and share it on the blog you keep for your family and close friends. I [...]

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

20

Yamaha DTXplorer, Rock Band 3 and the Midi Adapter on XBox360

April 20, 2011 | 6 Comments

This is a follow up to my most active post ever about connecting my Yamaha DTXPlorer kit to Rock Band and Guitar Hero running on XBox 360. About a year after this post was published, I finally got Rock Band 3 but it took me until recently to get my hands on the Mad Catz [...]

Mar

26

Using WordPress Hooks by Example – hiding a category

March 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment

The plugin used on the homepage of this blog to display featured articles is called Related Posts with Thumbs. It will display the last X posts published in a given category. For flexibility, I created a categoruy called “Editorial” for the posts which should be displayed with the plugin. The problem was : I didn’t [...]

Feb

28

RockBand/GuitarHero: How to record drumless tracks

February 28, 2011 | 4 Comments

Over a year ago, for Christmas, I got a DTXPlorer Yamaha DrumKit just because I enjoyed playing Guitar Hero and Rock Band so much. I got very interested in drumming and wanted to experience the real thing. The first challenge was to connect a real Midi drumkit to the game, since I couldn’t play anything [...]

Jan

8

World Gone Web hacked

January 8, 2011 | 3 Comments

On Monday morning, I received an email from Google Webmaster Tools letting me know that my WordPress blog had been hacked and was temporarily blacklisted. Users accessing my blog using Google Chrome or Firefox were advised to stay away for safety. I appreciate Google’s notification of this problem as well as their concern (and Mozilla’s) [...]

Aug

15

2 Macs, 2 iTune Libraries, 1 iPhone: Getting it All Together

August 15, 2010 | 3 Comments

Since I got the iMac for Christmas, I only use my 3 year old MacBook when traveling. My Music and Movies collections are on the iMac and so are my apps. The problem is, when I’m traveling, I can’t sue the MacBook to synchronize my media or I loose all the existing content on my [...]

Apr

5

Backup Your “Tumblelog”

April 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment

First, I must confess that I like trying software out. That’s probably how I ended up having some many accounts with so many services and having a Tumblelog AND a WordPress blog. Since this blog is not running on wordpress.com, it is for me to remember and backup my database and files from time to [...]

Sep

18

Thomas Jefferson Ten Rules

September 18, 2008 | 1 Comment

I’m back from a three week vacation in the United States. We went to North Carolina for over two weeks where we shared our time between the Outer Banks and the Appalachains Montains (I love this State more and more everytime I get a chance to see more of it). Anyway, there will be pictures [...]

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