Powerbook
I just had the joy to open my powerbook, to change my HD. This is the first time I’ve opened my powerbook and everythings went well. So now I’m back to work (exams time)!
By the ways I used this tutorials to change a hard drive in a powerbook. It’s in french but well understandable.
I also learned some shortcuts for the mac use.

  • Stay 20 sec on the reset button will reset the mainboard
  • Press C at the begining and it will diretly boot to the CD/DVD
  • Press cmd left & right with S will bring you to the Unix mode where you can make an “fcsk -y” (a sort of check disc)
  • If you got trouble with your mac you also want to see the macos.com website which has a huge base of article and forum related.

     

    Adobe premiere pro 2.0 and after effects are out now,
    you can take the premiere tour or the after effects tour.
    There still is no download tryout but it shall come soon, I hope.

     

    Don’t know if u heard about it, the ADAA is open and we have until April 28, 2006 to submit our works.
    The official rules are :

    The contest is open to students enrolled in visual arts programs at accredited institutions of higher education in the 50 U.S. states, Washington, D.C., Canada, the U.K., Australia, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Korea, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, South Africa, Sweden, and Switzerland. Projects must be created primarily with Adobe software.

    In the product information they don’t speak about Flash but they do speak about Adobe software, so I guess the use of Flash is possible ?
    Official website of ADAA 2006

    Jan 102006
     

    Just to remember, here are the most used notation in logical writting (mostly used for integrity rules definition).

  • ε : belongs
  • ⊆ : is include in
  • ∪ : union
  • ∩ : intersection
  • - : is different
  • ∅ : is empty
  • ∧ : and
  • ∨ : or
  • ¬ : is not
  • ∀ : for all
  • ∃ : it exist
  • ≡ : strickly egal to
  • × : cartesian product
  • |: such as
  • {} : ensemble
  • ⇒ : imply
  • I hope it help.

     

    It’s time to vote for flashforward 2006, there are 15 categories of flash website. The result will be given the 1st of march.
    See the categories, submit your vote.
    The finalist have really nice website so it’s a good place for some inspiration.

     

    On useit.com I found a nice topics about the Top Ten Design Mistakes for Weblogs :

  • 1. No Author Biographies
  • 2. No Author Photo
  • 3. Nondescript Posting Titles
  • 4. Links Don’t Say Where They Go
  • 5. Classic Hits are Buried
  • 6. The Calendar is the Only Navigation
  • 7. Irregular Publishing Frequency
  • 8. Mixing Topics
  • 9. Forgetting That You Write for Your Future Boss
  • 10. Having a Domain Name Owned by a Weblog Service
  • It seems that I have some works to enhance my blog!
    Read the full article from Jakob Nielsen

    Jan 072006
     

    This is not one more flash snow animation, but if you miss snow watch this video, you will have more than enough ;)