Author: Stephane Venne

Stephane Venne (aka Ennev) is an IT consultant with a broad range of interest. Ennev been using computers since 1978. So he has the emergence and fall of various technologies, this give him a good perspective to evaluate the current trends. What is his great quality in this business? He’s as interested to tech as he was in 1978. So he still maintain a BBS (80’s tech) and is embracing the newest technologies. His expertises also extend to hardware, video, audio. This blog will focus on the tech side of its interests. Expect to find link to tech news, Tests and preview of open source application, iPhone/iTouch apps. This blog is also a testing ground for the WordPress platform, so expect evolution and changes on a regular base.

iPhone 3.0 improve podcast listening

You can now rewind by 30sec increment and speed playback up. Cool for talk only podcast, you could go trough a 60min in 30 min! And it’s very listenable, it’s time compression so voices don’t end all like Mickey mouse. More later! As i discover new features.

AvantGo Going Away

Sad. I was using this for so long. Was still synching my T3 with it every day, just in case the iPod touch would fail. Will miss it. http://www.pheedcontent.com/click.phdo?i=04fde89097a0dd086b9ab5c3e6610601 AvantGo , a popular offline browser for PDAs and smartphones, will cease to exist as of the end of June. Sybase, AvantGo’s parent company, has announced…

ISP spying begins in UK, as Universal, Virgin ink a deal

http://government.zdnet.com/?p=4963 In a first-of-its-kind deal, Universal and Virgin Media have agreed on a U.K. plan that makes Universal’s entire catalogue available – DRM-free – for a monthly subscription price, while Virgin will take a more active role in identifying unauthorized downloading of the label’s music, The New York Times reports. …

One of the best apps for Palm now avaiable for the iPhone

And cheap too http://feeds.gawker.com/~r/gizmodo/full/~3/kkY-TNjWGyc/at-last-microsoft-word-editing-in-the-iphone Rejoice, Microsoft Office and iPhone users, because now you can edit, create, and view Microsoft Word files. Dataviz Documents To Go doesn’t bring Excel editing as promised , but at least is here now for $5. The Excel creation and editing will be a free upgrade if you buy now. Like…

Migration

The migration of ennev.com to a different host wasn’t too painful. It’s more lacking time this weekend to really play with it that made this outage long. But really, i think that what worked faster to get everything back like it was was to copy file to file every thing from the old host, then…

Net neutrality again before the House

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/technology-blog/2009/05/net_neutrality_again_before_th.html By Paul Jay, CBC News.ca. New Democrat digital affairs critic Charlie Angus has tabled another bill designed to enshrine the principle of net neutrality, his second attempt to bring the issue to the House of Commons through a private member’s bill. Bill C-398 will

Canadian astronaut Thirsk bound for International Space Station

That’s going to be interesting! http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2009/05/22/space-robert-thirsk-space-station-astronaut.html?ref=rss Canadian astronaut Robert Thirsk is a member of a six-person crew that will live on the International Space Station for six months. On May 27, he and two other crewmates are scheduled to launch from Kazhakstan to join the other three already aboard the station.