Like many, I took the plunge on Friday and bought an iPhone 3G (pictures and videos of the saga here). It was clearly not the most reasonable thing to do to stand in line for hours to get an expens...

I’ve had a fair experience with Bluetooth devices, including headsets, mice, and keyboards. At home, I am now using the Apple Bluetooth keyboard and mouse, and I am quite happy with them.Recently, ...

Saturday morning we went to the local movie theater to watch a Metropolitan Opera’s high-definition live broadcast of Puccini’s Manon Lescaut.I was curious about how much I would enjoy watching an ...

Following-up on Alex’s posts, to me the most glaring hole in the MacWorld announcements was the lack of any update about DRM-free music.Apple was a precursor of DRM-free music online with last year...

Many of my tasks, at Orbeon or personal, involve PDF documents:<ul><li>Sending invoices to customers (no way we are sending Word or Excel documents!)</li><li>Archiving, view...

I recently bought two Fujitsu ScanSnap scanners: one for the office (Mac version) and one as a gift for my brother (PC version).For as long as I can remember, I have had a strong aversion for paper...

You know, like when all those cheap flights are listed, but Orbitz tells you that the flight is not available when you want to buy it? Systematically, our recent flight searches have come up with t...

Following-up on Michael Arrington’s post “2008: Web 2.0 Companies I Couldn’t Live Without”, here are the Web 2.0 tools and services I use whenever I am behind the computer (I’ll pass on the super-o...

I am in Switzerland for Christmas. I launch a new Firefox install. Firefox loads the Firefox Start page, featuring Google search. The page is in German.About 64% of people speak Swiss-German dialec...

At long last, Firefox 3 is coming, with a second beta released just a few days ago.Firefox 2 is not too bad, and it is certainly preferable to using Internet Explorer, but it is plagued by memory l...

Today I put in my computer a DVD from a Blackadder set, bought legally for me as a gift a few of years ago.I happen to have plugged a European DVD into my US Mac, and you can guess what message I g...

Here is what one of the presidential candidates, Mitt Romney, recently professed:“Freedom requires religion, just as religion requires freedom. Freedom opens the windows of the soul so that man can...

2007 will be remembered as the year the recording industry moved away from Digital Restrictions Management (DRM).The latest positive development in this saga is that a few days ago Deutsche Grammop...

On pourrait croire qu’en Suisse, pays champion de la démocracie directe, on ne puisse pas facilement passer une loi sans même que les citoyens en aient vent et sans que la presse n’en mentionne quo...

And by that, I don’t mean that it beats the crap out of Microsoft Windows, I really mean that Mac OS X application windows sometimes disappear when you use Spaces. You can’t cmd-tab to them anymore...

Following-up on the release of the Amazon Kindle, you may want to read Mark Pilgrim’s The Future of Reading (A Play in Six Acts). Sometimes, you just need to be reminded of certain ideals and go pa...

Today, Amazon officially announced the Kindle eBook reader and associated services. This has already produced a flurry of blog posts all over the place. The device is not yet available, but it alre...

Windows Explorer has long had an option to show the path of the current folder in the title bar of the window. This is a very convenient feature which was lacking in the Finder so far.Leopard now h...

Here are a few of my issues with it:<ul><li>It crashed at least once.</li><li>It feels quite slow, certainly slower than the Windows Remote Desktop, for example. Maybe becau...

Since Apple still doesn’t think that supporting a free, fast, unemcumbered, lossless audio codec is a good idea, I had been using Play on Tiger. Unfortunately, it is broken on Leopard. Version 0.2 ...