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New MacBook Pro

I took these notes while unpacking and installing my new MacBook Pro at work.
- Slick packaging, as usual for Apple.
- First thing I’d do is migrate my user account or the whole drive from the old MacBook. Since the new MacBooks no longer have FireWire 400, I can no longer use the Target [...]

Posted 01 April 2009 § ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , ,

Nokia N97 = FAIL

Nokia had a partner booth at LeWeb8, next to Steek’s. Their fanciest handsets were on display, including the iPhone killers, the 5800 and N97.
Now, I use an iPhone, I find it OK, but its “in-spite” shortcomings are quite frustrating. I thought I could live with less multi-touch and a bulkier package, in exchange for [...]

Posted 13 December 2008 § ‡ Comments (3) ° Tagged: , , , , , , ,

BZ2 Files And Safari

If you can’t decompress a “.dmg.bz2″ file downloaded by Safari, you may try to fix things by removing the .bz2 from the file name.
Here are some hints pointing that the problem is caused by the incorrect extension:

Using Archive Utility–the default archive handler on Mac OS–to decompress Filename.dmg.bz2 creates a new file called Filename.dmg.bz2.cpgz. [...]

Posted 17 September 2008 § ‡ Comments (6) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Kimsufi PAS

I ordered a basic Kimsufi dedicated server to test it out before I migrate my blogs and my client sites. Since the beginning, I had some trouble setting up the DNS with Gandi, so I had to contact their support team for help. Good thing I did. The answer came 4 (four) days later, in [...]

Posted 18 August 2008 § ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , ,

FinePix F100D, the best compact camera?

I think I’ve made my choice.

Posted 26 June 2008 § Thoughts ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , , ,

Bose Companion 5 Review

They sound great, if you like Bose’s clean, monitor-like sound. The sound is powerful, crisp and there are no distortions. I can’t say I was impressed by their 5.1-like capabilities, but I don’t have a lot of 5.1 content to throw at them. Design-wise, they are everything I hoped them to be: slick, mate metal [...]

Posted 05 June 2008 § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , , , ,