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Category: Apple

  • I say NO to the leader

    We are all in a capitalistic society where commercial companies are guided by their financial interest. A company in a monopolistic position is able to freely set its prices (at least, very independently from the consumers/customers whishes and market interests). I can’t do anything about this kind of situation, but it still opens a few…

  • OpenOffice nearly ready for Mac OS-X

    We just learned that the OpenOffice development team will show its desktop software suite running on Mac OS-X in the upcoming Apple Expo (next month in Paris). Welcome to the Mac lovers in the world of free Word, Excel and PowerPoint (we remember that Microsoft Office is seriously abandonned on the Mac nowadays).

  • Apple enslaving Chinese workers

    Is Apple forgetting their “Think different” political/advertising message with the help of Chinese sub-contractor?

  • Apple outsources from India to US

    After announcing a month ago that they would open a software development branch in Bangalore, Apple finally decided to stop the adventure and to fire the software development workforce in order to concentrate on US team(s). The Indian engineers already hired will be fired with a two month compensation package. The Bangalore office will still…

  • Firefox is growing up

    At least, that is what I see from my web site statistics. Today, I checked and I can see that Internet Explorer is only 65% of last month’s visits. 23% of the visits come from one or another version of FireFox. By the way, Safari from Apple is still around 2%, while Opera does 3%.

  • OpenOffice first virus

    One of the arguments pushed forward by the proponents of OpenOffice, the free open source desktop suite (replacement for Ms-Office) has long been the total lack of security issues. I never did use it, while I favor strongly OpenOffice and I appreciate this feature, because I felt that it was only linked to the more…

  • BEFSX41 – The DNS proxy works well

    BEFSX41 – The DNS proxy works well

    Good news: Even if this is not plainly written in the documentation of this fine little Ethernet router from Linksys, the BEFSX41 is fully able to operate as a DNS proxy. You just have to: Use DHCP on the WAN side (on the side of your Internet Service Provider). Configure your machines (Windows, Linux, MacOs)…