Read the rest of this entry »RSS-For-Later is an open-source web application that manages your feed list (OPML), and will automatically send all new articles in those feeds to your Pocket account.
It has been developed in reaction to Google announcing that their Reader will be discontinued in July 2013.
RSS-For-Later: Replace Google Reader with Pocket
March 16th, 2013How to run a super-fast Android emulator with Intel x86 system images
September 12th, 2012Note: I did this on my MacBook Pro, and saw a major difference between the x86 emulator, and the old ARM emulator. I guess I should thank the CPU my MacBook uses, which supports Intel® HAXM*. If yours doesn’t, you’re out of luck!
* Intel® HAXM requires an Intel® processor with support for Intel® VT-x, Intel® EM64T (Intel® 64), and Execute Disable (XD) Bit functionality.
Procedure
- Install Intel® HAXM
- In Eclipse (or not), run the Android SDK Manager, and install the latest “Intel x86 Atom System Image”. The latest one I see right now is in the Android 4.2.2 (API 17) section.
There’s also images for 4.1, 4.0 and 2.3 if you want to run those emulators.
Also, you might already have it installed. - Next, start the Android Virtual Device (AVD) Manager, and either create a new AVD, or edit an existing one.
- Choose a Target for one of the Intel system image you downloaded. The CPU/ABI field will allow you to select “Intel Atom (x86)”. Yay!
- In the Emulation Options section, select the Use Host GPU option.
Step 6 is to marvel at the speed at which your AVDs now run!
Flickr interesting or groups photos on your (jailbroken) Apple TV screensaver
April 8th, 2012Read the rest of this entry »Since I replaced my Apple TV 1 with an Apple TV 2, and started using Flickr as the screensaver, I was wondering how I could use group photos or interesting photos from Flickr, instead of just a user’s photos, or the result of a search.
Today, I was able to hack it to do what I want!
[Updated] Phone Power in Canada: awesome features set, so-so routing & support
March 31st, 2012Read the rest of this entry »Last year, I took the plunge and switched from a big local telephony provider to a web-based VoIP provider: Phone Power.
Their features set is quite something: free second line, voicemails to email, some free international minutes, etc.
But, when it comes to routing local calls, they are so-so.
[Updated] How to monitor the Apple Store for available refurbished items using cron
March 31st, 2012Read the rest of this entry »So, you’d like to buy a refurbished product from the Apple Store, but it’s currently Out of Stock. And will probably be for a while, and when it’s not anymore, the few units available will be gone in minutes.
So you need a way to be notified ASAP when it’s available, so you can have a chance to order it.Here’s a simple way using cron.
Show/Hide DesktopShelves using a Hot Corner
October 3rd, 2011Read 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.)
Start 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.
