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My home server acts essentially as a backup and media server. I run Plex and iiTunes on it. It hosts all our music, films, TV shows and home videos, the original copies of our iCloud Photo libraries, my Lightroom master files and all the content of my Dropbox account (just in case).
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Let the world be for you in the New Year full of warmth, joy and friends, and may your home never run out of love and understanding.
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Beyond the essential apps I use on a daily basis such as 1Password, Textmate, PasteBot or SuperDuper, etc. there are a few gems that live in my Application folder that I use on an infrequent basis, but which have followed me ever since I discovered them.
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My Mum and little sister live in Cornwall, located in the South West of England. It’s a beautiful region and one of my favourite places to be, but it’s not really on Geneva’s doorstep.
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Apple, and especially the Macintosh, have played a key role in my professional career since the late 1980. Their attention to detail, alongside with an ethical and user centered approach fascinated me, but the recent string of Apple decisions disturb me.
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I recently had to move a bunch of video files out of Vimeo while I searched for an alternate hosting solution. I chose to keep it as simple as possible, and to use the
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The Mason M5 Aramid case adds extra protection and grip without degrading the look & feel of the phone.
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I’ve just finished the Audible version of Carte Blanche, a James Bond novel by Jefferey Deaver, which retrofits James Bond in the 21th century alongside with (some of) today’s technologies, environmental and geopolitical contexts.
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We attended our first ballet of the season yesterday : Minimal Maximal at the Grand Théâtre de Genève.
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While the days are shortening and the rain falls quietly outside, I’m feeling a pang nostalgia as I’m about to close my last client accounts hosted at pair Networks.
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Edward Snowden is the guest of episode #1368 of The Joe Rogan Experience talking about his newly released book “Permanent Record”.
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I love watercolour sketches and I find them perfectly suited to travel logs. I discovered “Bangkok old town through sketches” by Pitirat Yoswatana while we were visiting the Bangkok Art & Culture Center) last August.
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In a recent post, Garrett Dimon talks about how he quit using analytics on his personal site, and how he hasn’t missed it or even need it.
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In a recent TidBITS article by Glenn Fleishman, I discovered how to securely generate QR Codes online.
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Save Instagram’s progressive web app to your home screen to get rid of ads (for now).
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Steve Jobs passed away 8 years ago today.
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If you need a S/MIME certificate, avoid purchasing it from Sectigo. If it’s for your personal use, prefer Actalis.
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Universal Machine is a meditation on the ultimate fate of humanity’s relationship with technology.
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New Adventure Conference 2020 has launched.
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So, I finally completed my blog migration from Movable Type to Perch Runway two years after my last post!