Archive for February 2008

Blitzweekend

29 February 2008 / 1 Comment

Blitzweekend just started tonite and I attented the kick-off party of this two days event, at the Sherbrooke University.

The objective of Blitzweekend is simple but quite challenging: gather your team, build and launch a product in the time of a week-end.

But Blitzweekend is more than a code challenge for geeks. Some of the sponsors are […]

Time Capsule, What About Security?

28 February 2008 / 5 Comments

Time Capsule is out and ready to be shipped. Time Capsule is a new wireless backup device from Apple. It combines an Airport base station and a big hard-drive to use with Time Machine.

I love wireless, and everything that can remove the clutter from my desktop. Time Capsule seems to be a great device but […]

Twittercal Is Mashup of the Day

26 February 2008 / 2 Comments

Twittercal — a little side project that allow you to update your Google Calendar from Twitter — was featured mashup of the day at MashupAwards.

Thanks and congrats to Semapedia, mashup of the month.

Hacking the iPhone

23 February 2008 / 2 Comments

I was a bit jealous of not having an iPhone for myself in Canada — since there is still not deal with Rogers and Apple — so I decided to buy one directly from the US ($400) and try to hack it.

A Mad World

The world of iPhone hacking is quite mad. Since every firmware release […]