Clavier Mac canadien français sous Windows XP (Parallels, VMWare, Bootcamp...)

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! La solution: installer un layout de clavier 'Mac' dans Windows XP, disponible ici.

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Mac Widget: Vidéotron Internet Usage Monitor

A nice little widget, sitting on my Dashboard, that can tell me how much of my monthly quota I've used so far.

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How to fix non-working Folder Action on an external hard disk

After some digging on Google, I found one post on MacOSXHints forums where a user mentioned that a FA attached to a folder on an external HDD would always stop working after un-mounting / re-mounting the hard disk; exactly what was happening to me!

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Blowfish encryption plugin for Colloquy

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 by developing my own Colloquy plugin[...]

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FrontRow Enabler for 10.4.8

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. So I used my trusty Firewire cable to fix my PowerMac (see how in the comments of Andrew's page), and started to look for a way to patch FrontRow Enabler 1.3 to make it compatible with Mac OS X 10.4.8[...]

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Compiling PHP 5 on Mac OS X

Not that easy...
Here's a step by step guide to do it yourself.

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Canadian Holidays in iCal

I publish and maintain a calendar of all the Canadian Holidays.
I started it in iCal.app (on my Mac) and I was publishing it using WebDAV on my web server, but I now imported it in Google Calendar, where I maintain and share it.

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Activism: RapidWeaver Contact Form vulnerability

It has come to my attention (from the RealmacSoftware support forums) that the PHP code generated by RapidWeaver (version 3.2.1 or less) is vulnerable to mail header injection attacks[...]

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