This is what happen..!: Archive

Why the iPad Is My New Laptop →

As I said, more and more people are using an iPad as a computer. Some people are more extreme than the other. This post is quite balance, he can’t do everything, but the iPad seems more practicle in many situation.

May 4th

More people "switching" to an iPad →

More and more people are switching to an iPad only world. Hello post-pc era!

Apr 20th

Yield Thought: I swapped my MacBook for an... →

Wow, this is almost what I’ve imagined. Using an iPad taken to the extreme. Seems to work great for that guy. yieldthought: On September 19th, I said goodbye to my trusty MacBook Pro and started developing exclusively on an iPad + Linode 512. This is the surprising story of a month spent working in the cloud. It all started when I bought my first MacBook a couple of years ago....

Mar 23rd

430 notes

jasonSeney();: Open, Edit & Save Encrypted Files... →

A really nice way to encrypt a simple text file on the fly. jasonseney: If you’ve ever want to save sensitive text on your computer - encrypting it is the only way to ensure it is secure. Using vim and gpg we can open, edit, and save only the encrypted file and leave nothing in plain text on the hard drive. Note: In order to run gpg on OS X, you’ll need to first…

Mar 23rd

10 notes

On the last day notes...

I’ve come to realized that I’m a bitchy bastard. And I would certainly unfollow myself or others from Twitter or any other social network for less than what I’ve wrote. So, in the future, if I don’t have anything good or nice to say, I shouldn’t write it online. I just need to remember this. That is all.

Mar 9th

My Bell DSL adventure

You’re always satisfied until you experience a problem with a paying service. I had great internet service and nice speed. That’s until yesterday midnight… While watching Netflix, everything stopped, my DSL line was dead. Went downstair, checked my modem, like WTF? Seemed ok, did a reset. My internet connection never came back. I got a solid DSL light, but no internet light....

Mar 6th

Jan 6th

Social Networks, should I or should I not?

I know peoples who don’t use social networks at all. They like their identity or life to be private. That’s their own thing, every one has their own opinion about what’s good to say or tell and what’s good to use or not. I myself fully embrace social networks. Well I do to some extend. All the information I post there are normally public stuff. I sometime put my personal...

Jan 6th

Things you should know...

I know them, but I still have trouble with them. I do get burn by them once in a while. That said, here are some rules of work / life. I may edit this post once in a while if I find something else that I need to learn or know. This kind of list or post is some kind of popular on the Internet at the moment. I’m writing this for myself. You may find them interesting or not. 1 - Don’t...

Jan 5th

Leaving 2011 behind and welcoming 2012

I’ve read my last year resolution and I’ve done none of them. This is really too bad. 2011 wasn’t what I could say a good year. I was working for myself, had an easy gig and it was prematurely ended by the contractor. They found someone to take the job full time on their payroll. I can’t blame them, but that got me into finding a new job. Got the best job that I...

Jan 2nd

3 tags

Watch

Skyventure on Flickr. Went to SkyVenture today. Epic!

Apr 27th

1 note

2 tags

Apr 22nd

7 notes

Apr 1st

“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please...”

– This is so true in every ways.

Mar 22nd

StarWars posters

I think these posters are amazing..! I need to find myself one. http://www.flickr.com/photos/danbenjamin/5310213787/in/pool-1409141@N23/

Mar 14th

Mar 5th

“You change for two reasons: Either you learn enough that you want to, or...”

– ~Unknown So true…

Mar 3rd

tumblrbot asked: WHERE WOULD YOU MOST LIKE TO VISIT ON YOUR PLANET?

Feb 24th

Pogoplug #fail

So I got this Pogoplug in November. I haven’t used it much since then. First of all, I had trouble using it on my network. I got 2 internet connection and different computers on my network uses either one of them. So there is half my network that connect directly to my Pogoplug while the other half connect trough the net. This is the first #fail. As If I can’t use it from anywhere on...

Feb 22nd

Watch

Went karting, crashed..! Taken with my GoProHD.

Feb 22nd

Watch

A small video done at Jay Peak with my GoPro HD cam. Footing wasn’t exceptional, but I made a small wipeout that is nice on video.

Feb 5th

Watch

Second video shot with my GoProHD. I did the same run as last time, but instead of having my camera mounted on my chest, it was mounted on my helmet.

Jan 22nd

Watch

I got a GoProHD Hero last week. This is a small video footage done at Mont-St-Bruno. I was using a chest mount. So the angle is not as good as I would’ve like. Quality is pretty good for such a small camera. The footage was then imported on my iPad and edited on the iPad with ReelDirector.

Jan 17th

Watch

A small video done on my iPhone and edited with iMovie for iPhone. It was done last summer at the park near my parents summer house.

Jan 9th

2011 New Year Resolutions

Last year, I had only 3 resolutions. I’ve only done 1.5 of them. I’ve been working for myself the whole year, and I lost some weight / started eating healthy. That last one, I can only say I did half of it. As I haven’t really lost much weight, but I did start to eat better. This year, I’ve lost my dad due to some health issue, I need to get this in order for myself....

Jan 1st

2010 is coming to an end...

It’s almost the end of 2010. This was one big year. I’ve haven’t done much of what I wanted to do in my ‘new year resolutions’. I think this whole year went by too fast. I’ve moved in to my first house in December 2009. I’ve came back to freeleancing. Worked at 3 clients. Took 3 month forced vacation in July. This was one of the best summer from a long...

Dec 23rd

Bye Bye Del.icio.us

Looks like Yahoo is killing Delicious. This is what ppl where wondering yesterday morning. It has now been confirm. Techcrunch got the word back from Yahoo. This is bad, as more and more original services are being shutdown. It’s not rare to see a startup being acquire by a big company to be kill in the next 2 to 3 years late. It happen to some site on Google and now it does on Yahoo. As a...

Dec 17th

DodoCase #2

I’ve received my replacement Dodocase today. As you may recall, i’ve talked about my not too good experience from my first one, my DodoCase review. I got some attention while tweeting about it and comparing two case that looked the same. DodoCase came out to me and offered to replace my original case. I’ve just received it like 30 minutes ago. Like a kid on Christmas,...

Nov 25th

How the Pogoplug software works

I recently bought a Pogoplug, nice gadget, works well, but was slow on my network. I’ve contacted Pogoplug support. And here is how they told me there software works. I think it’s important to know because I might not be the only one with a special network setup. 1. When the Pogoplug comes online it attempts to check in with our central service. The external IP address of the...

Nov 8th

Thanks, it was fun!

After 8 years as a subscriber of Easynews, I’ve decided to close my account. I haven’t been using it for at the minimun 1 year, but I would say at least 2 years. It was great, I could find almost anything, but I didn’t use it for all it’s value. And the thing is, paying for it at US10$ a month for something you don’t use, I could move that money to an other service...

Oct 31st

Oct 21st

iPad DodoCase

After thinking about it for quite some time, I finally bought a DodoCase for my iPad. I never had the chance to look at one or to hold one in my hand before placing the order. So I had to base my expectation on reviews / tales from sites like Twitter and Tuaw. Now I had my case for 2 weeks, here are my observations. First, this is probably the best looking case you can find for your iPad. I love...

Sep 18th

Apple September First Event

iPods, Apple TV, the line almost got a full refreshment. It’s nice to find FaceTime integrated with the new iPod Touch. That is really logical. Because my mom would never use an iPhone. She doesn’t have a plain cellphone. But an iPod touch could be really good for her to speak with her grand children’s. It will make a really nice present. As for the Apple TV, I’m a bit...

Sep 1st

iPhone game

Since I discovered “Archetype”, my iPhone battery only last half a day. I must say that I have a lot of free time on hand.

Aug 18th

Jul 8th

iPad land

So I bought a new iPad yesterday. I wanted to get the 3G model. My previous one worked great, but I needed to use it while not in a wifi coverage area. Having the 3G gives me a lots of freedom. I’ve been using it for 2 days and I already passed the 250 megs cap… A good thing that I took the 5 gigs data plan. I never thought that I would use that much data.

Jul 1st

iPad case

I’ve had my iPad since launch day. I’m in Canada, so I bought one from a fellow who went to the States to get one. I didn’t have any protecting case for 2 month. I didn’t wanted to order one online and I was able to wait for supply to come to Canada. In that time, my iPad mostly stayed at home that whole time. I did find some pretty nice cases on the net. One of the best...

Jun 14th

iPad apps

I might start making posts about iPhone / iPad apps that I’ve bought. I don’t normally buy a lot of apps, but these apps are so good and are cheap that I don’t see why I wouldn’t buy them. Reeder - Best iPad news reader app. It sync with your Google reader account, nice interface. AirVideo - Best way to share video from your computer to your iPad / iPhone, it does...

Jun 14th

“For a long time, iPhone felt like a Lexus while Android was more like a Kia....”

– MG Siegler (via daringfireball.net) (via ericmortensen) (via mikehudack) (via dpstyles)

Jun 10th

34 notes

Android Land

“Android Land” will probably be a series of post regarding my finding / hints on Android based phones. I just purchased a new Nexus One. It’s my second one as I had the T-Mobile, aws band version when it got out. I now have the AT&T version that has 3G working in Canada. With my first one, I had some anoyance with the fact that SMS notification didn’t vibrate at all....

May 27th

I dipped my toe in Android land

I’ve been using a Google Nexus One phone since 3 days. I’m using it exclusively, keeping my iPhone 3GS without a sim card and power off at home. This is a nice experience because I was always curious about this new phone os. I never tried version 1.x, so I can’t tell how much it evolve since day one. What I can say for now, I like it. But there are a few things that I would like...

Feb 19th

Weewar Stats

For almost a year, I’ve been playing Weewar, an online game based on Advanced War for the Nintendo DS. It’s a turn base game that you receive email when it’s your turn to play. It got chat, around 12 types of units, air, land and sea, it’s really cool and fun. You should try it. I’m “optikz” in the game, friend me up and let’s play. This post is...

Feb 1st

Jolicloud on my Sony Vaio P

Well my Vaio P has been gathering dust from quite some time now. I’ve stop using it as it was too slow and even in Linux, I wasn’t really satisfied. I’ve been waiting for some time to try something new on it, but the Intel GMA500 video card is kind of keeping me away from a lot of distro / options. Jolicloud looked promising, but it took them like 2-3 month to release a GMA 500...

Jan 19th

1 note

Jan 3rd

2010 resolutions

This year, I’ll make things simple… As making a list of things I want to achieve is probably one of the worst thing you can do. Last year I only did 3 things out of 9. Maybe 9 was too much. Thinking about it, it should not, cause you have 12 month to do stuff. You could spread it all over evenly and be able to do one thing a month. But history says it doesn’t work. So...

Jan 1st

1 note

Looking back on 2009

Let’s have a look back at the big highlights of 2009. Olivier my second child (last one) was born on the August 31. I’ve bought a house in Montreal. I’ve lost a job, but I’ve reinstated my personal company and started to work for myself. This is good as I found a consulting gig 2 weeks down the road. I will now work on stuff that matters to me. As for my 2009...

Dec 30th

Dec 12th

Haitus

Wow, it’s been a pretty long time since I wrote anything on my blog. All I can say is that I’ve been busy. New baby, buying a new house and all. If you want some updates, you can follow me on Twitter.

Nov 27th

iPhone 3.0 tethering over bluetooth on Linux...

This is a repost from ubuntuforum.com from Cooperlees. I’m posting it on my site so I can find it easier and I like to spread the word. Ubuntu iPhone 3.0 Bluetooth Tethering with uit.sh If you would like to use your iPhone 3.0 with your bluetooth capable Ubuntu 9.04 PC then uit.sh (Ubuntu Iphone Thethering) is for you. This script installs all required conf, allows you to enable and...

Jun 25th

Password security

I had a talk lately about password. People are asking me, what are good password? Well let me tell you how I create my random password that I use. I have 3 rules to create them. It needs to be longer than 8 chars. 10 chars is a sweet spot. It needs to contain numbers, extended chars and letters. All of those! Extended chars and numbers need not to be use to end the password, some of those...

Jun 22nd