Posts under ‘Technology’

Just so you know, I’m playing around with a few themes so don’t be worried if all is not as it usually is.
I quite like this one but will have to change the images that rotate in the header. I also have to reinstate my pages and sort out the widgets.
Maybe I’ll go back to [...]

I spoke the other day about a sort of architecture for my online presence. With this blog being the foundation I need to establish the other layers.
With my mobile phone, a Sony Ericsson K800i, I was able to create another blog with Blogger in able to upload photos taken with the phone. At the time [...]

Reading my feeds this morning I came across two articles reporting that “the DataPortability Workgroup announced this morning that representatives from both Google and Facebook are joining its ranks.” The first article is from ReadWriteWeb.
Mashable goes on to say that
After months of competing platforms, privacy showdowns, arguments over who owns your social networking data, [...]

While looking at one of the free newspapers here in Geneva this morning I came across an article that drew my attention. On the inevitable shopping page there is an article for a gadget that infuses perfumes around your PC or notebook. All this from a USB Key. I looked up the web address (USB [...]

I decided to take the risk of purchasing iListen the other day and to use it with my Logitech USB Headset here on my iMac. I had asked Steph but she continues to use Dragon Naturally Speaking in a Parallels session as Dragon is capable of transcribing either French or English.
My English accent when I [...]

Through twitter and a Chris Pirillo broadcast I’ve “discovered” Blurb and Joe’s Goals.
This was after his clip mentioning them in relation to rewarding yourself after attaining some goals. The referral was to using Joe’s goals as a tool to survey ongoing goals and to Blurb as a reward. The person in question who maintained a [...]

I don’t want to start a personal vendetta but I’m extremely disappointed with one of our local Mac stores here in Geneva. For this reason I won’t divulge the name.
Those following me on twitter know that I’ve been looking into solutions for speech transcription software professionally and have ordered and obtained several copies of Dragon [...]

A colleague gave me a link to this video subtitled in French but I’ve found the same video with English subtitles.

We have started our Christmas decorating at home. We will get the tree this coming weekend but while waiting my wife wanted to spruce up the stairwell and add a few festive touches to the living room.

Somewhat related, I tested a few new themes this past weekend to this blog because when I updated my [...]

I know the title is not English but it does describe what I lived through earlier this week.
I decided to upgrade our connection and rent a Set Top Box for IPTv from my IP Bluewin (Swisscom). As we live in the country we can’t get cableTV and so the only way to increase the number [...]