Read the rest of this entry »Here’s how I setup a Hot Corner to show or hide my DesktopShelves.
(Note that this trick can also be used to launch any program or AppleScript using a Hot Corner.)
Show/Hide DesktopShelves using a Hot Corner
October 3rd, 2011Start iPhoto screen saver from AppleScript
October 3rd, 2011Read the rest of this entry »Starting the screen saver from AppleScript is simple enough. Even starting another screen saver than the default from System Preferences is simple, if you want one of the standard screen saver. But it becomes much more complicated if you’d like to start the iPhoto screen saver, and use another as the System Preferences default. Here’s how I did it.
Has Gmail spam filter become too aggressive?
April 7th, 2011Read the rest of this entry »I’m not sure if I’m the only one who noticed (I hope not!), but recently, the Gmail spam filter started marking as spam a lot of messages that were NOT spam.
Here’s the ones I found, while looking at only the first two pages of my Spam folder (about two days worth of spams)
Videotron Internet Usage Monitor
March 30th, 2011Read the rest of this entry »Would you like to monitor your monthly Videotron Internet quota easily? Use either my Mac Dashboard widget, or my Google Chrome Extension.
Chrome Extension – Get comments in RSS format
March 29th, 2011Read the rest of this entry »So you got a nice Google Chrome extension, right?
And people do leave comments / questions / hate mail on the extension page all the time.
Here’s how to receive those in your RSS reader.
Greyhole Roadmap – version 0.9
December 12th, 2010Read the rest of this entry »WIth 0.8 just out the door, I began thinking about 0.9.
That version will focus on fixing Greyhole’s greatest bug creator: the rename operation!
Greyhole 0.8 & Samba module
December 12th, 2010Read the rest of this entry »I just built and uploaded version 0.8 of Greyhole on Google Code.
This version doesn’t change much of what is normally visible to the end users (except the regular bugfixes). Instead, 0.8 focused on improving an area of Greyhole that has always been messy: the communication channel between Samba and the Greyhole daemon.
Greyhole new website
December 12th, 2010Read the rest of this entry »This week, I created a new website for Greyhole.
This website centralize all the information one could want about Greyhole.
tou.tv pour iPad
November 10th, 2010Read the rest of this entry »Des fois, ça ne va juste pas assez vite à ton goût.
Comme avec tou.tv. Ça fait longtemps qu’ils disent qu’une version pour iPad est prévue, mais pourquoi attendre quand on a tous les outils pour que ça fonctionne maintenant ?
Fuel Consumption Tracker
June 14th, 2010Read the rest of this entry »I wanted to keep track of fuel consumption (L/100km) for our two vehicles. I wanted to be able to send email to enter data, or use a simple web interface. The email part was important, because I don’t have a data plan on my cellphone, so being able to compose and queue an email at the pump, to have it sent automatically when I was later within reach of a known Wifi network, was a very nice to have.
Implemented in PHP, the result is not that pretty, but it’s nice enough, and the ease of use allows me to keep it updated without too much hassle.
