Sep

30

Zero, Del Wire

Photography

Here’s a copy of one of the earliest videos by director Xavier Chassaing. Rumour has it that he is working on a brand new video at the moment; it should come out late this year or early next year. We have to wait, but I am sure that it will be just as amazing as this one, if not better. Hope you enjoy this one, and don’t be shy to leave comments to give your impressions. Chances are that Xavier will read them.

Youtube being what it is, I must warn you that the quality of this video is poorer than it really is.

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Sep

28

Freeing Up Space on Mac OS X

Technology

An endless battle between a powerbook and its user: The Struggle for Space. Unless you have some cash laying around for a bigger and better hard drive, it seems like no matter how hard you try to keep things tidy around a laptop, space keeps running out eventually.

At least, this is what happened to me a couple of months ago, and again now today. In this article, I proposed a 10-steps process for cleaning up your Mac OS X (Keep in mind I am still running the 10.3.9 at the moment on this powerbook). In order to effectively clean your hard drive, you need a good picture of what’s in it, to see how it’s organized and get a strategy for cleaning it. But first things first, let’s take note of how much space you have on the computer.

Determining Available Space on Your Hard Drive

To check how much free space is available on your startup disk, do the following:

  • In your Finder, select your Hard Drive icon (mine is called ‘Gimli’ in memory of Frodo’s small but bulky helpful friend, but it all depends on your personal tastes!). It could potentially be still called Macintosh HD ;
  • Press Apple-I (Cmd-I) and get the info from this window: Capacity, Available, and space used ;
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Sep

25

The Logic of Fear

Personal

I recently stumbled across this very interesting joke by journalist Greg Palast. You should read the entire original article, but let me share this quote with you:

So, Osama Walks into This Bar, See? and Bush says, “Whad’l’ya have, pardner?” and Osama says, “Well, George, what are you serving today?” and Bush says, “Fear,” and Osama shouts, “Fear for everybody!” and George pours it on for the crowd. Then the presidential bartender says, “Hey, who’s buying?” and Osama points a thumb at the crowd sucking down their brew. “They are,” he says. And the two of them share a quiet laugh.

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Sep

24

Hypoallergenic cats for sale 3 950$

News / Science

A perfect example of positively using your brain. A company that, in the era where genetic engineering is blooming, have used their brain to come out with a simple, yet incredibly powerful idea: Breeding. The price of the cats is scandalous, but other than that, it is quite the solution. Way to go.

US biotech firm Allerca says it has managed to selectively breed them by reducing a certain type of protein that triggers allergic reactions.

Read the full article on the BBC site

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Sep

20

Coming Zune Near You

News / Technology

Brown Zune MP3 PlayerIn its continuous quest for market share of every possible software products known to man, Microsoft has finally come out with a relatively decent piece of MP3 player: The Zune. It’s got the looks and it’s got the technologies. With the possibility of sharing your music (photos and videos) with friends, listening to radio stations, and the 3in screen: I have to admit that it’s a couple steps ahead of its competitor, the mighty iPod. My sources, i.e. me and my good mate Clint, tell me that the iPod era might be coming to an end very soon (i.e. Christmas 2006 ?). Again, as with Windows Vista, only time will tell, but it might make me switch from my beloved iPod once and for all. Two major drawbacks:

  • Non-compatibility for Mac users.
  • Bigger screen, same resolution (320×240) as iPod.

But let’s face it, what kind of Apple user, in his/her right mind, would choose to switch to a Windows-based product to listen to music ? Well, a user that has a Windows desktop and would like to own a Zune MP3 Player and still be able to use it on his Powerbook G4. His/her only choice, at this point, would be to stay with iPod… As for the resolution drawback, well… what can I say.

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