Capture d'ecran sur iPhone

Parce que c'est utile, parce que c'est cool et parce que je viens de l'apprendre... La capture d'ecran sur iPhone!
Pour ce faire, il vous faut:
- un iPhone
- un index
- un autre index

Il existe des variantes de cette technique ou un pouce est utilise... Notez qu'il n'existe pas de variante au niveau de l'iPhone, ainsi n'essayez pas avec votre ecran de PC au risque de passer pour un gros nul!

Donc, je disais, pour faire une capture d'ecran, on reste appuye sur le bouton 'power' situe sur le dessus de l'appareil, et simultanement, en meme temps et pas apres, on appuie sur 'home', on peut meme dire 'maison' mais ca veut rien dire... Bref l'unique bouton sur le devant de l'appareil, rond avec une forme carre (pas facile a comprendre hein!)

Et voila... On obtient une capture d'ecran automatiquement sauvegardee dans l'album.

Meme que pour prouver ce que j'avance... Voila la capture de ce que j'avance!

-- Post From My iPhone

iPhone rox, iTunes sux!

I finally joined the rank of those who have succumbed to the temptation of this society of consumption and sold my soul to Apple…
Ok, enough with the drama, I’ve bought an iPhone!

I’m not new to these wee crazy things and have already flushed a photo 20GO a few years back (yes… I managed to drop it in the toilets, guess what… it’s not waterproof!), and successfully managed to own up to this day a video 30GO iPod and a 8GO iPod Touch (for sale!).

When I visited my brother who had already sold his soul a few months ago, I was very impressed but didn’t really need one (not that I do now, mind you, I’m just weaker!).
Now that I’m travelling to London every week, I must admit that these long nights on my own in the hotel room are quite boring without the Internet (damn credit crunch, the company won’t pay for the Internet!)… Which was enough of a reason for me to run to the store and buy one!

I’ve had it for 2 days now so can’t really say much about it, expect that it’s all I loved about the iPod Touch and then some more, a lot more!

However, I hate iTunes, always have, always will!

I found this neat freeware that at least allows you to download your music from your iPhone onto your PC (this is taking intellectual property defence way too far, all I want to do is download my legally obtained music onto my computer to listen to it at work, not impoverish the World’s culture for cryin’ out loud!).

Anyway, check this out, it does what it could say on the tin, no installation required!

SharePod: http://www.getsharepod.com/

However, this doesn’t help for ringtones!

See, the main difference between an iPod Touch and an iPhone is the phone feature, I know, took me a while too to figure this out.

2 days after having bought the iPhone, I decided to look into the ringtones (nobody have my number just yet… not even me, so no rush!).

I found this overly cool and straightforward way of creating your own ringtones from your own legally obtained music in iTunes.

This is just the greatest thing ever, so easy to do!

So, I now have my favourite part of the Jeff Buckley rendition of Hallelujah, how cool!
Well… not so cool since I can’t get to on my iPhone!

See, the iPhone is a pretty damn good device for people on the go, except that iTunes is like the most retarded piece of software ever created!

It won’t let you do anything if you try to use to sync with a computer (guess what Apple? People on the go tend to have more than 1 computer since… well yeah, since they move!). Scratch that, it will let you erase your music!
I’ve just managed to lose my music up to the letter L… of course I won’t fly back home until Thursday night so I’m stuck with my music from L to Z… I even lost Lilly Allen… won’t even be able to play F**k You!

Anyway… Now I’ve lost half of my music and still don’t have my ringtone on my iPhone… but since even I don’t know my phone number I guess it doesn’t matter so much!

Welcome to the geeky side of the force!

Cinnabon... 6 years later!

Ever since I discovered these amazing Cinnabon Rolls back when I was living in Southampton, on the South coast of England, I have been desperate to have them again!

When I moved to Scotland, I was very hopeful they would have a franchise and eventually ended up writing to the company through their website.As it turned out, they didn't have one in Scotland... it took me a while to recover but eventually I started feeling better...

And then I got offered this assignment in London for a few months... and honestly, after the obvious things going through your mind like what's the job description? What will be paid for and do you think I'll be able to see the Queen, I thought of finally being able to eat a Cinnabon!

I arrived on Monday morning and left it to the Wednesday to go on my Cinnabon hunt which led me to Picadilly Circus.They now have these Chocolate Cinnabon that I had never tried before...

so I took one of those and a normal one (minis... I'm on a diet! ;-) ) and went back to the hotel.Except that, of course, I got lost (managed to find Buckingham Palace AND Downing Street but not my hotel!) and it took me quite a while to get there!

In the end, by the time I was back in my hotel room, it was cold. Any reasonable person would have waited until the following day, brought it at work and would have micro waved it... but I'm not reasonable!

I stopped for a moment and thought... what would MacGyver do? And then I spotted the two objects that would allow me to finally have a Cinnabon 6 years later... a hair dryer and a tea spoon!!

Blow drying the frosting on a Cinnabon might appear weird to most of you, but to all Cinnabon connoisseurs out there, I know you understand the despair I was in and why I had to do it!And you know what... it worked very well and this new Chocolate version is very tasty! I had the normal one this morning for breakfast and it happens that I need to go back to Picadilly Circus tonight to go see a movie... I see another very sweet breakfast in the very near future!

Elections USA: Pourquoi essayer de nous influencer quand on ne peut meme pas voter?!

L'Europe votera Barack Obama!
Youpi... sauf que l'Europe ne votera pas, parce que l'Europe n'est pas americaine (oui, je sais ça en soulage plus d'un!).
Depuis plusieurs semaines, à vrai dire depuis la grande tournée europeenne de Obama, l'Europe ne jure plus que par lui, on le voit limite president du monde, ce qui fait tourner la tête aux journalistes et par consequent peut avoir de serieuses consequences en cas de défaite!
On me dira que Obama a déjà gagné, que McCain est trop vieux, trop proche de Bush et trop fier de la guerre en Irak... oui mais voilà... les americains ont (re)voté pour Bush en 2004... et pourtant il presentait les meme characteristiques, bon d'accord la vieillesse etait remplacée par la stupidité et Bush était en fait son pere, Bush Sr.

Mon probléme est que, bien que je me declarerais bien citoyenne des USA juste pour voter Obama, il ne faut pas oublier que l'Europe n'a qu'une influence limitée sur les votes. Pis encore, on pourrait donner des votes a McCain! N'oubliez pas que l'amerique profonde est plus peuplée que les côtes, et que les intellectuels ont un QI superieur mais moins de poid dans les urnes.
Donc si les intellectuels (par là j'entends toute personne qui sait placer l'Europe sur une carte) sont influencés par notre opinion, les rednecks qui mangent encore des Liberty Fries y voient un manque de patriostime de la part de Obama qui cède aux sirenes de l'ouverture d'esprit, une faute passible de la peine du triple double whooper (on te fait manger des hamburgers jusqu'a ce que tu t'ecroules!).

Et le journalisme francais sur ce point est plus que lamentable... si la crise economique ne nous a pas, prions pour que Obama soit president parce que McCain va nous detester!
Simple exemple, croyez-vous vraiment qu'un journaliste serait aussi agressif envers Segolène Royal que ce qu'ils sont envers Sarah Palin?
Sans compter qu'ils demontent systematiquement les argumentaires des republicains en y opposant ceux des democrates, il est où votre travail de journaliste la-dedans?!

Palin accuse Obama de 'copiner' avec un terroriste... l’argument donné par les democrates est qu'Obama n'a aucune sympathie pour les idees de ce Bill Ayers, qu'ils se sont connu au travers d'une fondation. Ca c'est ce qu'on lit dans les journaux americains, avec les guillemets et les sources... dans le Figaro, rien de tout ca, le journaliste cite cela comme si c'était le fruit d'une longue enquete pour rétablir la verité.

Je suis 100% derriere Obama mais si les journalistes francais font de la desinformation, comment peut-on se faire une idee juste de la campagne americaine, et surtout comment reagira McCain si les americains l'elisent?

Accent... grave

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Pics of New Lanark, Lanarkshire

After the horrendous summer we had up here in Scotland, it was with great relief that we saw the sun hanging around for a few hours yesterday! UgzY just took the time to charge the batteries of the camera and was on his way to New Lanark, south of Glasgow.
This wee village is so full of history, both sad and hopeful that it was almost overwhelming.
Cottonmills were the only source of revenue and all families living in this village were working in poor conditions in the late 18th century.
That is, until Robert Owen, which sort of reminds me of Oscar Schindler, took over the cottonmills in the early 19th century. This philantropist decided to improve the working conditions of the families living in New Lanark and working for him. A school was created and all children received an eduction, be it full time or after work. Hygiene was a priority and doctors, called 'bug hunters' made sure clothes and beddings were washed. Even more impressive for this period in History, free health care was offered to workers and their families.
While the village doesn't look like a place you would want to live, considering it all happened over a century ago, it was a major social breakthrough that is very much worth visiting for anyone interested in History and/or Economics.
You will find more about this place on Wikipedia or the Offical Website of the site.

Before you see the pics, here is something to think about...
'There shall be no human slavery, servitude, or inequality of condition, except for the natural inequality of age and experience, which will for ever preserve order and harmony in society' - R. Owen

UgzY is back on the road!

UgzY was desperate to get back on his feet and start travelling again, problem was that the good ol' UgzYmobile was letting our penguin down more often than not.
We couldn't take it anymore, so off we went and found a new ride!
This almost (not even close but still! ;-) ) brand new Ford Ka means that UgzY will be hitting the road pretty soon and will bring more photos of this wee and yet great country!