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 ...
Even more stuff Steve did not announce
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...
PDF support: one of the highlights of OS X Leopard
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...
A paperless life with the Fujitsu ScanSnap scanner
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...
How can Orbitz and the likes be so dishonest?
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...
2008: Web 2.0 software I use every day
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...
Enough about (badly) guessing the user's language
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...
Firefox 3.0 beta 2 a good step forward
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...
I can't believe we still have DVD region coding
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...
Mitt Romney and freedom
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...