Category Archives: Tools

IRC: #joiito Channel Revival (Or At Least Reunion)

[fr]Le retour du canal IRC #joiito, et quelques pensées sur ce qui différencie Twitter et Facebook (même les groupes) d’un canal IRC comme celui-ci.[en]So, let me tell you what happened last night. You know I’ve been reading Here Comes Everybody, … Continue reading

Posted in Connected Life, Thinking, Tools | Tagged #joiito, bots, community, facebook, freenode, groups, IRC, twitter | 21 Comments

Photos Online on Flickr, Facebook, and Google+ With Lightroom

[fr]Comment je fais pour publier mes photos sur Flickr, Facebook et Google+ depuis Lightroom, avec les plugins de Jeffrey Friedl.[en]I like Lightroom a lot and have been using it for a few years now to manage my photos. I don’t … Continue reading

Posted in Photography, Tools | Tagged facebook, flickr, google, google plus, jeffrey friedl, jffacebook, jfflickr, jfpicasaweb, lightroom, online, organising, photos, publish, sharing, uploading | Leave a comment

Fiddling With Video: Lightroom, YouTube, and iMovie

[fr]Je m’amuse avec iMovie. Ça donne une vidéo de chats, bien sûr.[en]In November, I had Thierry Weber come and give my SAWI students a short practical course about YouTube and online video. It gave me a kick in the pants … Continue reading

Posted in Animals, Tools | Tagged auchalet, cats, imovie, iPhone, lightroom, organisation, upload, video, youtube | Leave a comment

LinkedIn Appreciation

[fr]LinkedIn? Chiant comme la pluie, si on veut être méchant, mais en fait c’est un peu dur: ça s’est vachement arrangé avec les années, ça attire une autre population (un peu plus “prudente” par rapport à l’activité en ligne) et … Continue reading

Posted in Tools | Tagged addictive, career, endorsements, linkedin, My work, online presence, professional, recommendations, skills | Leave a comment

Tinkering with Evernote, Tumblr, IFTTT, and Pocket

[fr]Je bidouille avec Pocket, IFTTT, Evernote, et Tumblr.[en]This is incomplete tinkering. More questions than solutions. Welcome into my ecosystem for dealing with other people’s content. I’m a fan of the “read later” button, my buckets are overflowing, and I’m fully … Continue reading

Posted in Tools | Tagged api, evernote, ifttt, instapaper, pocket, read later, tinkering, tumblr, web clipper | 2 Comments

CatBlock Fills Your Internets With Cats

[fr]CatBlock vous montre qu’internet est fait de chats. Miaou![en]The other day, Anna told me I should blog about CatBlock for Chrome. Here we go. You knew the internet was made of cats, right? Well, instead of simply hiding ads like … Continue reading

Posted in Tools | Tagged adblock, ads, catblock, cats, chrome, extension | 1 Comment

Using Google Docs for Small Team and Project Management

[fr]Pour gérer des petites équipes et des projets de modeste envergure, simplement utiliser les documents partagés de Google Docs peut vous sauver la mise et diminuer grandement les communications inutiles. Par exemple, un document texte avec la timeline, les éléments … Continue reading

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Reminders With Future Triggers: Building an Intelligent Calendar

[fr]L’idée que j’ai pitchée au StartupWeekend Lausanne, plus en détail et mieux expliquée: un système de rappels (“rappelle-moi”) qui pourrait rappeler des choses comme “la prochaine fois que tu vois Sophie, ramène-lui son pull” — même si on ne sait … Continue reading

Posted in Technology, Tools | Tagged calendar, content analysis, evernote, geolocation, ia, idea, ifttt, inzair, reminders, remindme, startup, swlau, zms | 2 Comments

Non, ce n’est pas un podcast, ça

[en]You already know (I hope) that a blog is not a post, so you don’t say “I’ll write a blog about this” but “I’ll write a post about this” (or “I’ll write a blog post about this”). I realized the … Continue reading

Posted in Tools | Tagged article, billet, blog, definition, episode, histoire, Podcast, post, terminologie | 2 Comments

La subtilité du placement du @reply dans Twitter

[en]Remember that when you start your tweet by somebody’s Twitter name, those of your followers who do not follow that person will not see the tweet. In some cases, you might want to reshuffle your sentence to make sure the … Continue reading

Posted in Tools | Tagged @replies, mentions, nom, réponses, twitter, utilisateur | 2 Comments