Yesterday nite, I was glad to being invited to a sneak preview of Akoha — a Montreal startup founded by Austin Hill and Alex Eberts. We had to sign a friendly NDA at the reception so I can’t say much about their product offering except that it’s a very surprising and original concept. It might [...]

Opentape is inspired by Muxtape‘s success and untimely shutdown. Sharing your musical tastes should be fun and easy. We believe there is no reason it has to end with the shutdown of a single site, so we’ve created a free tool to make this possible. More than that, Opentape is also designed to be a [...]

A customized bash shell suitable for Git. A must have.

Things is a task management application — in the GTD style — for Mac OS X. It comes with a nice companion iPhone app that syncs via Wi-Fi. I tried a lot of apps but Things is certainly one of most efficient I’ve used so far. Its workflow fits nicely with the way I work. [...]

Amazing optical illusion.

Web Hooks is an open initiative to standardize event notifications between web services by subscribing to URLs. Web hooks are a way to get events and data in realtime from their web applications. From this they can use the data however they like, empowering them with the ability to extend and integrate, and start seeing [...]

I don’t generally post anything about gaming news but this one is a bit special. It’s the (hard) work of friends (and ex-colleagues) from Asobo Studio in Bordeaux, France. It’s a car racing game taking place in an impressive open world. Maps are mostly computer generated with advanced visual effects and real-time weather conditions. The [...]

I just installed the commenting system Disqus to manage comments on this blog. Disqus is a hosted service that replace and enhance the native comment system of your blog — Disqus support the most popular blogging engines but can work on any website — by adding threaded comments, video comments, email & mobile replies, tracking [...]

Results are pretty amazing. I can imagine this technology embedded in point-and-shoot cameras.

Thomas Robinson clarifies the situation of MobileMe security and confirms that the traffic is absolutely not encrypted, whatever AppleInsider seem to believe.