Right now I am staying in a nice hotel in England. It’s an old building on a nice 6-acre property in the English countryside. Since it is a rather fancy hotel, however, it also has to have modern amenities, including high-speed Internet access. Internet access in the hotel is provided through Liberty-i Wireless Broadband Internet. […]
If you’ve read the comments on my earlier post about the unexplained brightness problem on my dad’s PowerBook G4, you know that the mystery has been solved. The problem was most definitely that, at some point during his first days of using his new PowerBook, my dad had probably repeatedly (and accidentally) hit the keyboard […]
Assorted Geekery’s Chris Biagini has a number of interesting observations about the upcoming Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger), officially due on April 29th. His report includes several details that I hadn’t noticed myself, even though I was part of the (now closed) Apple Seed program for this system release and have spent the last few […]
After years of family arguments and jokes about the relative merits of various computer platforms, I finally managed to convince my dad to make the switch to Mac OS X about 16 months ago. He was a computer science professor from the very early days (late 70s) and had been a PC user for a […]
With all the design awards Apple has received for the iPod, you’d think that they would have eliminated this flaw long ago… But, as far as I can tell, they still haven’t. If you want to make sure that the earpiece for the right-hand side is in your right ear and the one for the […]
The two albums that Mavis Staples released on Prince’s Paisley Park label are both terrific. The second one, entitled The Voice, includes this very funky track called “Kain’t Turn Back”, which is credited, not to Prince, but to Bernard Belle. Does Prince appear anywhere on the track? It’s hard to tell, especially since Prince tends […]
A while ago, I wrote about my futile attempts to find a way to bring a single Safari window to the foreground with a keyboard shortcut without bringing all other Safari windows to the foreground at the same time. It is of course very easy to bring a single Safari window to the foreground by […]
Ce n’est peut-être pas une coïncidence si, dans la même semaine, je découvre le dernier album de Jean-Louis Murat, Moscou — et je lis aussi dans le magazine MOJO du mois de février 2005, en passant, une chronique sur un disque récemment publié intitulé Le nouveau rock’n’roll français. Dans cette chronique, l’auteur s’enthousiasme sur la […]
This game was not televised here in Canada, so we had to make do with the Sunday highlights show. It looks like Thierry Henry was back to his usual, cocky self with a well-executed hat-trick that takes him to a total of 23 goals in the EPL this season (30 in all competitions), and should […]
The device that was promised by Apple for March is now available. And based on the description, it’s exactly what was needed. Contrary to the devices sold by Belkin, the iPod Camera Connector supports both direct connection to a digital camera or connection to a media reader. It comes with a standard USB port and […]
A few weeks ago, Apple revamped their Apple Developer Connection web site and affiliated services. I have nothing against a good revamp. But then they also decided to revamp their e-mail services, including the ADC News e-mail that gets sent out regularly. Somewhat predictably (unfortunately), someone at Apple decided that HTML e-mail was a good […]
Go to www.mac.com. Click on “Login” link. Log in. Safari loads the .Mac home page for logged in users. The little lock icon in the top-right corner of the window indicates that you are connected to a secure site. Now click on “Account” link on left-hand side of home page. What does .Mac do? It […]
I am not particularly interested in American politics these days, but occasionally there are things that really make me mad. For the past week of so, we’ve been subjected to daily coverage of the Terri Schiavo case. And now that the tube has been removed and that Terri Schiavo is slowly dying, what do we […]
It was yet another encouraging display by a severely depleted team away from home against a Blackburn team that has not let in many goals lately, but desperately lacks creativity and tends to resort to a very physical approach. Ljungberg having picked up an injury during warm-up, Wenger had to improvise and use Ashley Cole […]
It is so refreshing to see that such debuts can still happen in this world. Zach Braff is both the director and the leading actor in this excellent romantic comedy… If the very genre (romantic comedy) makes you cringe, this movie will probably not change your opinion. But if you are not prejudiced against the […]