One Canuck's Radio Weblog

  Friday, 3 September 2004

.< 8:41:46 PM >
How to swear in Quebecois

The proprietors of ciboire.com have launched a site about Qucois swearing and insults. [montreal city weblog]

Personally I like saying 'tabernac' with a flat, anglo-Canuck accent. I laugh out loud after I say it! I don't know that anyone else finds it funny.

< 8:36:12 PM >

The Mirror's annual student survival guide is a compendium of all kinds of useful information for living in Montreal on anything below a middle-class income; they also link to my veggie resto page, bless 'em. [montreal city weblog]

< 8:24:34 PM >

This is the second part of a series that will run over the next few weeks discussing how to travel safely with your Mac OS X laptop. Now that you've made your travel preparations as described in part one, you can now think about getting all of your equipment on the plane safely. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service: MacDevCenter.com]

< 6:15:21 PM >

As many as 200 people were killed and 650 injured after commandos stormed a school in southern Russia on Friday where armed militants held hostages for the past three days. FULL STORY [CBC News]

Very upsetting.

< 6:05:44 PM >

A different way of calculating the medal standings brings some interesting results. [Kuro5hin.org]

Canada narrowly ahead of US in Olympic medals per capita. Way ahead of China.

< 5:57:47 PM >

Damn! I just made my first Skype for OSX call. From my laptop, wireless to our home phone in Belgium. I signed up for the 1.7 cents/minute global plan. No wonder people are freaking out about this. I'm going to save a lot of money.

My skype name is adamc1999

[Adam Curry: Adam Curry's Weblog]

Home phone, he said.

< 5:37:13 PM >

Menttor's 5.1 Surround Sound Headphones are designed to provide personal surround sound from multichannel sources such as Dolby Digital soundtracks and DVD-Audio discs, cramming enough tiny headphone speakers in the headset to deliver five discrete channels of audio (Melbourne Herald Sun, 1-Sep-2004) [DVD Audio Daily]

< 5:34:34 PM >

On Friday, Kainjow Software released Pod2Go 1.0, a new utility that syncs with your iPod and downloads news, driving directions, weather forecasts, calendars, contacts and other information to the MP3 player. It turns text, whether it's driving directions from a Web site or messages stored in Apple's Mail application, into an iPod-compatible format -- contact files in older iPods with mechanical scroll wheels and notes in newer iPods with touch sensitive controls. You can also configure it to automatically sync data between your iPod and your Mac at certain times of the day or only when the device is connected to the computer. Pod2Go requires Mac OS X v10.2.7 or v10.3 and Safari and sells for US$12, with a 15-day trial available. [MacCentral]

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< 11:53:25 AM >

If you want to remove a photo from a specific album and from the entire library at the same time, all you have to to is:Select the photo Hold down Command and Option, then press Delete.

This also works in iTunes, as discusse... [macosxhints]

< 11:50:28 AM >

At his keynote address to attendees of Apple Expo 2004 in Paris France, Apple Vice President, Worldwide Product Marketing Phil Schiller introduced the iMac G5 -- Apple's latest iteration of its all-in-one consumer computer. During the keynote Schiller showed an introduction video for the new computer featuring Apple's Vice President, Industrial Design Jonathan Ive and Vice President, Product Marketing Greg Joswiak. Now the video, which is almost four minutes long, is available for viewing on the Apple Web site. Sporting a soundtrack from (and brief appearance by) the Black Eyed Peas, the introduction video visually compares the iMac G5 to the iPod and shows the new computer in use. The QuickTime 6 video is available in small, medium and large formats. [MacCentral]