Read the rest of this entry »Having received earlier this week a letter from Vidéotron, my ISP, about my account getting capped at 100GB monthly in the upcoming months, I decided I needed an easy way to monitor my monthly bandwidth usage. A Dashboard widget was a good fit.
Archive for the ‘Mac OS X’ Category
Mac Widget: Vidéotron Internet Usage Monitor
Saturday, January 30th, 2010Remote-controlled air conditioning using Mac OS X and Shion
Saturday, July 18th, 2009Read the rest of this entry »My central HVAC system has issues cooling down the 3rd floor of our house during the summer.
To solve the problem, I started using my central HVAC system to cool the 1st & 2nd floor only, and I’m using a portative air conditioning unit on the 3rd floor.
To control the AC unit, I use my PowerMac (which is always on), to which a SmartHome PowerLinc USB Controller is connected.
I created a small PHP script which runs every minute, and determine if the AC should be on or off, and tells Shion to turn it on or off. Shion talks to the USB controller, which in turns talk to the SmartHome ApplianceLinc, which then either activate or desactivate the power outlet.
Auto-start XBMC on Apple TV boot
Friday, July 3rd, 2009Read the rest of this entry »Here’s how to have XBMC auto-start when your Apple TV boots.
TV Forecast widget not working? Here’s how to fix it.
Thursday, March 5th, 2009Read the rest of this entry »TV Forecast is a nice widget that Matt Comi created. You tell it what TV shows you watch, and it will keep track of the upcoming episodes for those shows.
The only down side to that widget is that it data-scrape TV.com to get its data.
Not only is this illegal, but it also tends to break the widget every time TV.com change their layout in any way.Getting tired of that, I decided to open the widget’s code, and change the data source to something more stable: TheTVDB.com
Encrypt Gmail offline (Gears) data
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009Read the rest of this entry »Since Gmail released the Offline feature in Labs, I guess many people have enabled it. I did, as soon as the feature was available in my account. And one of the first thing I did after enabling it, is trying to see how I could secure the data it downloads.
Clavier Mac canadien français sous Windows XP (Parallels, VMWare, Bootcamp…)
Thursday, October 25th, 2007Read the rest of this entry »Installer Windows XP sur un Mac, que ça soit dans Parallels Desktop, WMWare Fusion ou avec Bootcamp, c’est parfois bien pratique. Ce qui n’est pas pratique par contre, c’est d’essayer d’utiliser un clavier Mac canadien français dans Windows! Plusieurs touches sont différentes, dont les accents, plusieurs Shift-chiffres, etc.
How to fix non-working Folder Action on an external hard disk
Wednesday, June 20th, 2007Read the rest of this entry »I had a problem with Folder Actions: they always stopped working after a while! Quite annoying.
Blowfish encryption plugin for Colloquy
Monday, June 18th, 2007Read the rest of this entry »Lately, IRC channels where I hang started using Blowfish encryption for all messages sent to the channel. mIRC and eggdrop support Blowfish pretty easily, but there was nothing for Colloquy (the IRC client I use – Mac OS X only) to encrypt & decrypt Blowfish encrypted messages.
So I started looking for a way to encrypt & decrypt Blowfish messages using a Colloquy plugin.
FrontRow Enabler for 10.4.8
Sunday, June 17th, 2007Read the rest of this entry »Ok. So I wanted to install FrontRow 1.3 on my old PowerMac G5… Downloaded FrontRow Enabler 1.3, followed instructions, rebooted… And bam, no more login screen. How fun. Checking the comments on Andrew Escobar’s page, I realized 10.4.8 wasn’t supported just yet.
Here’s how I fixed it.
Compiling PHP 5 on Mac OS X
Friday, June 15th, 2007Read the rest of this entry »Here’s how I compiled PHP 5 on Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger.
