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One Life Teaser

One Life is web series I am preparing for next year. It’s a drama, suspense and thriller. There could be some action too, but I fear that word. I fear it will take the drama away. The reason I started this is mainly because I am sick and tired of seeing shows on the web with hosts. I also find there is a lack of fictitious content with regard to online shows.

One Life can be described by all the words on my whiteboard. The characters will …

I should have blocked Internet Explorer 6 users a long time ago

Internet Explorer 6 has been the bane of every web designers, developers, programmers’ existence. We all make websites work in Firefox, then we all test in Safari, Opera, Flock, etc. and to our heart’s desire, things just work. Our tests reveal that, there is nothing to change. Everything just works. It sounds reasonable to stop there, but we can’t. Many users are still using Internet Explorer 6 which happens to be the last browser in which we test and this is where all hell breaks loose.

Let your computer read for you

There are thousands and thousands of news articles every day. Much of that content is very interesting, but we are constantly doing something else instead of reading. What about listening? Can we listen to all that news while doing something else?

Syrinx, another Twitter client

Indeed, Syrinx is another Twitter client and it got my attention through the simple fact that is isn’t an Adobe AIR application. The tradeoff is that it is only available for Mac. Windows users and others can stop reading now, because this article isn’t for you.

iPhone App: Calendar

A lot of content can be found on the web concerning the iPhone and its App Store. It is no surprise since there has been a lot of hype about it all over the world. Many talk about the App Store, but none talk about the default applications and the changes since the previous versions. Those are really the only useful ones and Calendar is among the ones I use most.

I have moved the Calendar to the bottom, because I consider my calendar to beĀ  more …

Wacom Bamboo Tablet

The scroll ball on my Mighty Mouse wasn’t working very well. Sometimes, it would scroll down, sometimes, it wouldn’t, so I needn’t a new mouse. What I like about the Mighty Mouse its ability to scroll in every direction; up, down, left, right, and even in diagonals. As far as I know, there is no other mouse that can do that. There are mice that can scroll up, down, left, and right, but not in diagonals; that just isn’t good enough for my productivity, so came the Wacom Bamboo tablet….

Lola Rosa

Lola Rosa is a peculiar restaurant on Milton street next to McGill University. The crowd is young, mostly McGill students. Conversations about school, courses, teachers and ambitions are what dominates.

A new breed of spam in the form of a death threat

We are all familiar with spam and scam. Those are emails that innundate our inboxes every day. I would rather consider mnyself lucky, because my spam count is somewhere between 100 and 200 junk mail everyday. All spams are annoying. They offer you viagra. They offer you 250 million dollars. They offer you expensive softwares for cheap prices. They offer you health products. But there seems to be a new breed: death threats.

Are jokes about bad things bad jokes? What if I said screw Cedrika?

According to my statistics, most of my readers are not even in Quebec or France, so you don’t even know who Cedrika is and you probably don’t even care, but pay attention anyway, this is going to be interesting.

Heath Ledger’s Death and his Joker

I will write a full review of The Dark Knight later with a bunch of spoilers, but I just saw the movie last night and I just have to write these paragraphs about Heath Ledger. There are people in the world who have done great things and something comes along that puts a stain on their life. At that point, everything they were known for gets lost. Often, these people disappear from the prying eyes of the public, and they are forgotten along with all their good …

Batman: Gotham Knight (2008)

The Dark Knight releases tomorrow, as one of the most anticipated movie of the year. I expect the movie to be breath-taking and at least six scenes were shot with an IMAX camera, so I suspect that during those scenes, you would just be on the edge of death. That is reserved for the future, but in the present time, there is a DVD titled Batman: Gotham Knight.

Batman: Gotham Knight is a DVD with six stories meant to bridge the events between Batman Begins and The Dark Knight. It really sets the mood for the events to come. Every character …

The Dark Knight Soundtrack (2008)

Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard are two of the most respected composers in the film industry. After making the soundtrack for Batman Begins with different genera of bats, they join forces again to create soundtrack for The Dark Knight with very dark themes and it all starts with the question “Why So Serious?”

The first thing that hit me about the soundtrack is that it starts with a 9-minute track and ends with a 16-minute piece. The movie tagline is that question “Why So Serious?”, but with …

All your screenshots on ScrnShots

I take a lot of screenshots and upload them to my Flickr account which was originally intended for photography. Starting today, my Flickr account will only contain 120 screenshots, thanks to ScrnShots.

Applications and Games on iPhone

The App Store is the greatest improvement on the iPhone. Nobody can argue that point, because that is the gate through which the best improvements will be found, jailbreaking aside. Since it’s opening, the App Store keeps growing with many more applications, or “apps”, everyday, most of them are $10 or less and 25% of them are completely free. Some people even say that the iPhone is better than the Nintendo DS and the PSP. There are also those who show …