Technology opinions and digital photography

  • Pale-billed woodpecker

    Pale-billed woodpecker

    Pale-billed Woodpecker (Campephilus guatemalensis, Pic à bec clair). Costa Rica, 2015.

  • Cocoa woodcreeper

    Cocoa woodcreeper

    Cocoa Woodcreeper (Xiphorhynchus susurrans, Grimpar cacao). Costa Rica, 2015.

  • Boat-billed heron

    Boat-billed heron

    Despite its vernacular English name, this is not exactly a heron but a bird of a similar family. A great impressive look, not handsome, but impressive! Boat-billed Heron (Cochlearius cochlearius, Savacou huppé). Costa Rica, 2015.

  • Costa Rica: Sleeping boa (snake)

    Costa Rica: Sleeping boa (snake)

  • CrashPlan: Solution to backup crashes

    Finally, it did not take me very long to find a solution to the crashes of my CrashPlan backup solution. And, it was right on the web site of the software editor, where I could find all the directions to follow if CrashPlan crashes unexpectedly. I just doubled the memory size made available to the…

  • Flowers of Costa Rica

    Flowers of Costa Rica

    Tropical flowers are often very colourful and unusual in form (for us, European people). Why not try and interpret them with pictures which abandon all hope of identification and taxonomy.

  • CrashPlan: A few questions

    CrashPlan: A few questions

    For some time already (a few years, actually), I use and I recommend CrashPlan as an online backup solution. My photos are sent to a US backup server to protect them against some seriously bad event in my home (a fire? the theft of my computer hardware?) which would leave me without any backup locally…

  • Back from Costa Rica

    Back from Costa Rica

    Did you know that Costa Rica probably has 5% of global biodiversity (if it is counted in quantity of local species)? Marion and I went and checked this on location, despite (Marion’s) worries that most of local animals may be mostly insects, but with the hope to bring nice shots of cute little frogs. All…

  • Default calendar in iOS

    Default calendar in iOS

    When I recently replaced my ageing iPhone, I had to install some applications again and I encountered a little issue: Since I have several calendars all in the same phone (my office Outlook agenda, the personal calendar from Google, and some others), the phone insisted on creating all my new meetings in the wrong calendar.…


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