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 [...]

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 [...]

Jun

14

Book Review: L’ordinateur, une histoire de l’informatique

June 14, 2008 | 2 Comments

I grabbed a copy of “l’ordinateur, une histoire de l’informatique” (or in english: the computer: an illustrated history)at the public library and just finished the journey through some 650 years of computing lead by Mark Frauenfelder. The book presents and describes all the important technical discoveries achieved along the centuries in order to, one day, [...]