Category Archives: Technology

Apple TV Aerial Screensaver for MacOS!

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If you loved those high resolution (1080p or 4K HDR), slow motion movies that are used for screensaver on Apple TV, you will love Aerial that bring these features for macOS (same movies, both day and night settings).

Free download from GitHub!

Source: JohnCoates/Aerial: Apple TV Aerial Screensaver for Mac

You love those high resolution, slow motion movies that are used as screensavers on the Apple TV? Aerial brings those same movies (1080p and 4K HDR) to your macOS systems to be used as screensavers with a few added bonus such as superimposing the weather, time, battery status (for a macbook) and so on.

Free download on GitHub and donate if you love.

Digital Complexity

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As I previously stated, we are currently living the largest social and professional experiment of our time in which many activities have moved to digital, virtual long distance connections. Quite interestingly over that past 5 weeks my usage of videoconferencing software has been on average 14h/week (range 8h to 19h). Even is the most busy videoconferencing week, I have found that the interaction with colleagues and students not fully satisfying.

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USB-C : One Port to Rule Them All!

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One of the great thing I liked about Apple lighting port (when it came out) was the versatility and reversibility of the connector. As I replaced my MacBook pro last year, the computer came with 4 ports, all USB-C / Thunderbolt 3 compatible. This has some drawbacks vs. legacy hardware but at the same time it is fairly easy to have USB-A to USB-C cables or adapters.

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Former Student becomes CEO!

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***UPDATE: URL to MedScint website corrected

François Therriault-Proulx, a former PhD student of mine, decided sometimes ago that he would transformed a technology he co-developped during his graduate studies to a commercial product. Here he is in his first booth (right) at the premier medical physics conference, the American Association of Medical Physicists annual meeting in San Antonio Texas with partner, co-foudner and CMO Jonathan Turcotte (left).

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100% made in Quebec City. Congrats MedScint!

Dealing with E-mails in Academia II – Emails to actions to Inbox Zero

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This is the second (and last) installment in dealing with e-mails. It assumes that you have read the first one, basic ethos. If you have not please take a few minutes and read it here. In this second part, we will see how to transform the “good” e-mails into action items in order to reach the famous, not so unicorn-like, inbox zero and file e-mail intelligently for future use. These blog posts will be permanently part of the E-offices series (digital office).

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Christmas Gift – The Perfect Backpack

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About 2.5 years ago, I decided in was time to part ways with my humongous, generic black computer/gear backpack for something a little more professional, something  that while confortable enough to bring with me anywhere, would have no trouble to be in a meeting with CEOs and other meetings of the sort. At some points, many peoples in professional jobs consider buying a nice leather briefcase or attaché. 

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