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Two weeks ago I bought the new Samsung Galaxy S smartphone and after a full day spent to make confidence with the Android OS one big question comes in my mind: will iTunes detect the phone and synchronize my music library ?

No :-)

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It’s available a new version of wxScheduler. This version is only a bug-fix release.

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Time Machine is a powerful solution to backup, restore or move your Mac OS X installation to another machine or just after a full reinstall of the operating system. The restore system is smart enough to put all your applications, profile files, and all other stuff which belong to you.

For some files and folders (for example MacPorts installation and XCode folder) the restore process, to be safe, renames that files or folder appending a (from old mac) string, wasting hard drive space.

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In this post I’ll show you a simple event dispatcher implementation in Python. Every big UI frameworks can play with events an listener without reinvent the wheel but sometimes you need a very simple way to dispatch and receive events in you application without involve in megabytes of an external framework.

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Babel is a framework to translate date, times, numbers and currency in all the languages of the world. Unfortunately the package is not py2exe-friendly but with a little patch we can let Babel works when is embedded with py2exe.
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Thanks to the work from Jérôme Laheurte, a new stable release of wxScheduler is available in Google Code project website.

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Taskcoach use wxScheduler

Taskcoach, a todo manager to keep track of personal tasks and todo lists, now use wxScheduler to show tasks in the Calendar view.

I’m proud to see my wxPython component used for the first time in a non-commercial project. I glad to Jérôme Laheurte to have chosen wxScheduler for his calendar view and for the patch and improvements he made to wxScheduler.

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I need a chair…

So let’s go with the DIY style. No, is not the classic Do-It-Yourself but the new Destroy-It-Yourself !!

Watch the video to know what I mean.

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A couple fo days ago Python 2.7 was release as a first stable release. Looking at the Mac OS X ports I found the new official 64-bit release and I installed it. But now the Qt Python bindings stops working because they are compiled as 32-bit binaries.

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