How to properly fold an iPad 2 Smart Cover

April 16, 2011 by Thomas Leplus in Hack

The title says it all.

Mail files to Dropbox

March 12, 2011 by Thomas Leplus in Hack

I love Dropbox. It is a great way to share files with and between iOS devices. Dropbox is also available as a service for other apps so I hope it will become a standard way to share files between devices and even maybe between apps on the same device. However one feature that Dropbox is currently missing is a way to send files to Dropbox by email. Most iOS apps allow you to save files and attach them to an email. So if these attachments could end up automatically in Dropbox, wouldn't it be great? So let's do it.

The best connected Métro stations of Paris

February 05, 2011 by Thomas Leplus in Hack

This Sunday I finally decided to tackle a question that was on my mind for a long time: what are the most central stations of Paris Métro? But to answer that question we first need to define centrality.

Automatic birthday reminders from Address Book to iCal

January 01, 2011 by Thomas Leplus in Hack

With Mac OS X Tiger (10.4), Apple introduced a new feature in iCal: the ability to generate a calendar from the birthdays that you added in Address Book. Find out more at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=iCal/2.0/en/wr70.html. However I was disappointed that one cannot set an alarm on the events in the Birthdays calendar. So I created a hack to fix that.

How to create an RSS feed of your Instagram pictures

December 18, 2010 by Thomas Leplus in Hack

One of the most common complaint about Instagram's website is that users don't have a profile page on the site where you can see all their pictures or the most recent ones. You can only link to a specific image on the web site, everything else can only be done in the app. If you are like me, you prefer to have full access to your pictures outside of the app.