Wednesday 18 June 2008

Firefox : download day is today

Par Vincent DEMAY, Wednesday 18 June 2008 :: Technologies

Download Day 2008



Wahou, firefox 3 is out, and Mozilla organize a download today : Download Day 2008

Download Day is here! Set a Guinness World Record Enjoy a Better Web

Sounds like a good deal, right? All you have to do to help us set the record for the most software downloaded in 24 hours is get Firefox 3 now – it’s that easy. We're not asking you to swallow a sword or to balance 30 spoons on your face, although that would be kind of awesome.

Please download Firefox 3 by 11:16 a.m. PDT (18:16 UTC) on June 18, 2008. That's 11:16 a.m. in Mountain View, 2:16 p.m. in Toronto, 3:16 p.m. in Rio de Janeiro, 8:16 p.m. in Paris, Madrid, Berlin, Rome and Warsaw, 10:16 p.m. in Moscow, and June 19, 2008 at 2:16 a.m. in Beijing and 3:16 a.m. in Tokyo.

So let's go : download firefox !. More than 5,000,000 for now ;)

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Friday 28 March 2008

Acid test 3 and common browsers

Par Vincent DEMAY, Friday 28 March 2008 :: Technologies

Here are some acid tests I quickly done on common browsers. You can try it if you want with http://acid3.acidtests.org/

IE 7 - (useless to try with IE6)



FF 2



FF 3 beta 4



Safari 3.1



Safari nightly build



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Wednesday 12 December 2007

Shindig: an Apache openSocial container.

Par Vincent DEMAY, Wednesday 12 December 2007 :: Technologies

Brian MacCallister has proposed 2 weeks ago a new project for apache incubator. This project is called Shindig and has now an Apache page.

Here is an extract for the proposal :

= Abstract =

Shindig will develop a container and backend server components for hosting OpenSocial applications.

= Proposal =

Shindig will develop a JavaScript container and implementations of the backend APIs and proxy required for hosting OpenSocial applications.

= Background =

OpenSocial provides a common set of APIs for social applications across multiple websites. With standard JavaScript and HTML, developers can create social applications that use a social network's friends and update feeds.

A social application, in this context, is an application run by a third party provider and embedded in a web page, or web application, which consumes services provided by the container and by the application host. This is very similar to Portal/Portlet technology, but is based on client-side compositing, rather than server.

More information can be found about OpenSocial at http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/




Google has also started an OpenSocial container implementation : http://code.google.com/p/opensocial-container-sample/ but both projects seem to try to make effort to be merged in Shindig.

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Tuesday 11 December 2007

Goojet is out with a private Beta

Par Vincent DEMAY, Tuesday 11 December 2007 :: Technologies

From Goojet website :
Your phone is entering a totally new dimension. We created Goojet to make mobile services really simple and effective, from any phone – not just high-end handsets. Goojet enables you to customize your phone by organizing YOUR “mobile space”, picking services that are really useful to you. You can also use Goojet to communicate and share with your friends or professional contacts; and to express your creativity, by inventing and sharing new services.

  • Unite your web and mobile lives
  • Create and customize your own personal mobile space
  • Discover other mobile spaces
  • Invent and share new services


If you want to get invitation you can fill the invitation form, or let me know on this blog.

You can go to the website to find out more information :


Or take a look to the guided tour.



More info, in french on Cédric Girogi Blog

NB : Goojet is now at "Le web 3", you can meet part of the team there

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Monday 8 October 2007

How to get GPS coordinates from GoogleMap

Par Vincent DEMAY, Monday 8 October 2007 :: Technologies

  1. Go to google map : http://maps.google.com/maps
  2. Make the search you want
  3. In the url bar, type this snippet : 
    javascript:void(prompt('',gApplication.getMap().getCenter()));


Avtually the previous code snippet will be executed on the googlePage and will poped up a dialog containing the center of the GoogleMap coordinate

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Wednesday 3 October 2007

"Mac, Only 6,15% of computers of the world" : Are you sure?

Par Vincent DEMAY, Wednesday 3 October 2007 :: Technologies

I'm not ;)

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Tuesday 2 October 2007

Joost 1.0 is now out

Par Vincent DEMAY, Tuesday 2 October 2007 :: Technologies

Joost™ the best of tv and the internet The project I've been working for a year now became public yesterday. Joost 1.0 beta is now out. So you don't need invitation anymore to watch or create your own TV. Just go to the web site (www.joost.com) and download Joost. Joost works on Windows and MacOsX(intel).
Joost contains now more than 15000 shows in more than 250 channels to watch for free.

Let's try Joost and enjoy new TV....

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Tuesday 25 September 2007

Web 2.0 interviews in toulouse

Par Vincent DEMAY, Tuesday 25 September 2007 :: Technologies

As jbq said on Twitter all "Toulouse web 2.0 gratin" have been interviewed by Intruders (obviously in french):
Update: I only put links to Anyware Technologies and Goojet because they are companies which I'm involved with :p

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Wednesday 8 August 2007

Spock : A people search engine

Par Vincent DEMAY, Wednesday 8 August 2007 :: Technologies

I've just tried Spock yesterday and I found the concept quite interesting. Spock is a meta search engine to find... people!

Spock searches on other search engine (as Google), on community web site and on all other kind of web site to found out a person by his name or with some keywords.
As all web 2.0 new web application, you need an invite to use it!

Now, be carefull about your private information, it can be easy to find them with this tool ;)

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Tuesday 3 April 2007

Installing PostgresSQL on MacOS

Par Vincent DEMAY, Tuesday 3 April 2007 :: Technologies

The easiest way to install psql on mac OS is explained on Marc Liyanage web pages. Install, update, compil is explained. A very good tutorial ;)

[UPDATE] Apple has also a tutorial to install Postgres : http://developer.apple.com/internet/opensource/postgres.html

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Friday 16 March 2007

Who wants Joost Invitation?

Par Vincent DEMAY, Friday 16 March 2007 :: Technologies

I've some Joost invitations left. So If you want me to give you a token just leave me a comment

[UPDATE] Joost will be soon released. So invitation system is now closed. Just be patient a couple of days ;). I do not have more invitation left. Sorry.

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Sunday 25 February 2007

A firefox plugin to blog!

Par Vincent DEMAY, Sunday 25 February 2007 :: Technologies




PFFPerformancing is a very nice firefox plugin to blog in your own blog.
It allows bloggers to connect via XMLRPC to their blog to post content. More than just a simple XMLRPC system, performancing allows WYSIWYG, drag'n'drop from web pages, saving as note, etc...

It is a very nice plugin, see following screen-shots :

Edit your blog using Performancing and Firefox



powered by performancing firefox

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Friday 26 January 2007

Do you know Synergy

Par Vincent DEMAY, Friday 26 January 2007 :: Technologies

Synergy is an open source Sourceforge project allowing users to share mouse an keybord between several computers (MAC OSX, Windows, Linux). Synergy is very powerfull it allows to configure which machine is at the top/left/right/bottom to an other one. It also allows to map keybord between MAC and PC.

Ok, very fine, but MAC OSX users prefer to click in order to configure stuff... Right look at this UI for synergy. It rocks!

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Friday 19 January 2007

The Venice Project becomes Joost

Par Vincent DEMAY, Friday 19 January 2007 :: Technologies

The Venice Project become now public... as Joost
That meens more content to come out and a new name : Joost
Take a look at Sylvain Blog for more news...

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