A personal post to avoid other people planning to buy a Wester Digital My Book external Drive.

I’ve bought a My Book Pro Edition which broke down after one year. WD replace it by a My Book studio edition : it is louder and divers rise errors in Snow Leopard. To crown it all it broke down 4 month later. I’ve loose my data each time. Now I’ve send many mails to the assistance without response since 15 days. The new disk warranty was 90 days and WD refused until now to replace my disk. It’s strange because the original disk is covered by the first waranty of 3 year.

Be careful when buying such stuff. You can be very disappointed if the Assistance doesn’t respect their duty.

A new relaese of plex is out : V0.8.3. This version fixes bugs and stabilizes the 0.8 family before the new major version 0.9.

Compatibilty with Snow Leopard is improved but you shouldn’t install the Apple Remote driver proposed to be downloaded when updating Plex. Few users can’t reboot their Mac after this install. You should wait the results of the developers investigations to avoid any problems..

The big news for French speaking users is the new movie scraper Ciné-passion. English speaking users can use it since the information are now in French or English. I suggest you to read Ciné-passion’s dédicated post to discover this new scraper.

The others new features are a new process to quit Plex by using a time counter and the possibility to install plugins easily without the App Store.

I’ve written some tutoriasl in French and I plan to translate them in English. Let me know if you are interested.

Since the new design on the allocine web site my plugin didn’t work any more. I’ve fixed it, and you can enjoy the French trailers again in Plex. (more…)

Today is released the scraper Ciné-passion V1.0 developed by the passion-xbmc.org’s community.

This scraper is a major update of the speedallocine scraper which gave access to a big collection of thumb and fan-art in high quality for movies. The database is feed daily and automatically by scanning the web.

Below what’s new in Ciné-passion: (more…)

My TAC.TV plugin for Plex allowing to watch videos from www.tac.tv web site is released officialy in the Plex App Store. It is localized in French and English.

Source : New Plug-in Releases

The blog was not really active this summer. I used my time to learn more about Wordpress. I’ve done some modifications and the new URL is oncleben31.cc.

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Update 08/09/2009 : You can’t no more test it on my blog since I give up qTranslate to manage my bilingual blog. I think I’ll keep working on it.

My blog is bilingual thanks to qTranslate. When I create it I add the plugin WPtouch to be able to browse the website easily with an iPhone or an iPod touch. Unfortunately the two plugins are not really compatible :

• WPtouch is not localizable. I’ve found a French version on internet, but the translation was hard coded in the sources. It doesn’t use language file like the majority of Wordpress plugins. So the dynamically language switching is impossible.
• The WPtouch’s theme doesn’t allow to add easily a language selector.
• Some text field aren’t compatible with qTranslate. All languages are displayed or some functionalities don’t work like they should.

I’ve fetched the WPtouch beta version to watch if they will improve the compatibility. First good point the plugin will be localizable. Moreover there is a translation call for the users community. So I’ve installed it to make some test on Oncleben31.cc.

I didn’t resist to hack the code to make it really compatible with qTranslate.

Now what is working :

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My Allociné plugin, allowing to watch French trailers for comming soon or in cinema movies, is just released officialy in the Plex App Store.

From now, the blog’s content is bilingual. You can read it in French or English. You can switch from one language to another by using the flags in the sidebar.

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First post on the blog

After playing a little with Wordpress and its plugin the website is launched.

A post (this one) and some pages about Plex have been published. It’s a good start but I’ve many ideas incoming about style and content.