Archive for November, 2005

Unsanity’s Chat Transcript Manager - View and Search iChat and Adium Chat Transcripts (Logs)

Tuesday, November 29th, 2005

More cool software from one of my favorite companies, Unsanity

I usually get review copies of software, free. I make a point to buy Unsanity products though, because as a small company they can use the money, an they make such cool stuff that I want them to stay in business for years to come!

“Chat Transcript [...]

Music labels losing sales over DRM

Tuesday, November 29th, 2005

From the article Music labels losing sales over DRM

(...) the E-Commerce Times piece is anecdotal, their conclusions are borne out in the recent “rootkit” debacle that Hesse insisted did not matter to people. A Businessweek article suggests otherwise, documenting how Van Zant’s Get Right with the Man fell in Amazon’s rankings from 887 to [...]

A/V Cable? We don’t need no stinkin’ Apple A/V cable…

Sunday, November 27th, 2005

From an Ars Technica Infinite Loop article:

You want video out of your iMac or iBook or 12” PowerBook? Well, you have to buy the $19 cable from Apple. Want video out of your shiny new iPod Video well, you have to pay $19 for that too.  Or do you? Life Hacker has [...]

Think Secret - Mac OS X for Intel cracked again

Sunday, November 27th, 2005

Think Secret reports that mac os X for Intel is cracked, once again

Rogue coders have once again cracked the security mechanism that Apple has put in place to tie mac os X for Intel to its hardware.

“According to the OSx86 Project, a user with the alias “Maxxuss” has hacked the kernel so that mac os [...]

Messe funéraire - Gilles St-Arnaud

Sunday, November 27th, 2005

Voici le fichier audio de la messe funéraire de mon père, Gilles St-Arnaud. MP3-16MB. Gilles, tu n’es partie que depuis une semaine à peine, et tu nous manque déjà tant…

Pour ceux qui n’ont pas pu venir, ou ceux qui même ne le connaissant pas, pourraient rechercher force et courage.

Mon oncle, son frère, Jean-Guy St-Arnaud [...]

Talking to human!

Saturday, November 26th, 2005

You relly should visit the IVR Cheat Sheet”
I created the IVR Cheat Sheet to help you quickly get to a human when you are trying to call a company for service. (The term “IVR” stands for Interactive Voice Response, the fancy name for those annoying computers who answer most phones these days.)

Frustrated? How about when [...]