- Designer Sebastiaan de With has updated his iPhone/iPad icon PSD file, adding support for iOS 4 and 114x114px icons.
http://blog.cocoia.com/2010/iphone-4-icon-psd-file/
- Neven Mrgan leverages that file and offers lots of comments and tips for making clear icons using Photoshop and Illustrator.
http://mrgan.tumblr.com/post/708404794/ios-app-icon-sizes

Don Norman at Business of Software 2009
Imagine you’re on the first slide of your powerpoint presentation and want to move to the next slide. Your remote control has two buttons. They are unmarked, but one button points up and one button points down.

Which button do you press?

http://blog.businessofsoftware.org/2010/06/don-norman-at-business-of-software-2010.html

Very interesting

Pascal

Interesting link about programming the Windows Shell and other goodies

http://www.geoffchappell.com/

Pascal

Fait un excellent foies gras.

http://www.foiesgrasnicoleroche.fr

Guten Appetit!

"AVI-Mux GUI is an application that allows to combine several video, audio or subtitle files into one file, with out without size restriction, allowing to configure properties of the output file to a deeper level than usual for such applications."

AVI-Mux GUI

http://www.impawards.com

I have finished building the second version of my Windows Home Server. The first generation did suffer from a hard disk failure because, I'm guessing, the case does not provide enough airflow. Also, WHS seems to always have a good reason to spin the drives, so they where quite hot all the time.

I've changed the motherboard to an Intel one. The main reason was to have 4 SATA ports. I've build a 2 TB storage array by recycling an old Medea case. I've mounted a 12 cm fan in front of the case to ensure a good airflow around the disks. The arrays is built using 2x500GB Western Digital disks and 2x500GB Samsung disks. The Western Digital disks are running 5°C hoter than the Samsung's.

I've been part of the WHS SP1 Beta testers and I'm now able to backup my main desktop running Vista 64 bits, thanks to the new WHS console.

I've also changed the default Power Options of the WHS box to "Server Balanced Processor Power and Performance." This allows the disks to spin down when not in use.

I must say I'm quite pleased with the end result.

Here are some pictures:

Congratulations to the Sun21's crew for the first crossing of the Atlantic ocean powered only by the Sun!

I'm very proud of my uncle, Michel, who is the boat's skipper.

Sun21's website relates the adventure of the crew, with nice videos and pictures. Have a look here:
http://www.transatlantic21.org/

Cheers,
Pascal

http://www.sxc.hu/
http://www.istockphoto.com/

Pascal

After crashing my XP box by reformatting the C: drive to install Vista on it (XP was installed on an other drive), I'm posting the content of my local boot.ini file.

;
;Warning: Boot.ini is used on Windows XP and earlier operating systems.
;Warning: Use BCDEDIT.exe to modify Windows Vista boot options.
;
[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows XP Media Center Edition" /FASTDETECT /NOEXECUTE=OPTOUT

Seems interesting, not tested with IE7.

"Inline Search is an extremely useful free add-on for Internet Explorer that mimicks Firefox's search behavior i.e. it turns searching into a web page into a non modal research experience coupled with a search as you type facility. It integrates flawlessly into IE (version 5.5 or above), giving it that little extra that makes you a lot more efficient when you are looking for a specific piece of information."

Pascal

Visual C++ Team Blog
http://blogs.msdn.com/vcblog/default.aspx

I'm back from vacation.

Click the image to view the beautiful panorama from the top of Sifnos (4.6MB, requires QuickTime.)



Cheers,
Pascal

Consolas Font Pack for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005
Brief Description
Optimized for Microsoft ClearType
The Microsoft Consolas Font Family is a set of highly legible fonts designed for ClearType. It is intended for use in programming environments and other circumstances where a monospaced font is specified. This installation package will set the default font for Visual Studio to Consolas.

Consolas Font Pack

A small and very useful screen capture utility!

"Since the release of Window Clippings 1.0 in September last year, I have been working on an update in my spare time to address some minor annoyances and bugs as well as to add some of the most commonly requested features. Needless to say I haven't had much time to work on this, but I finally managed to squeeze in a few evenings."

Kenny Kerr

Pascal