Patrick Toutain, photographe amateur, professionnel des nouvelles technologies» windows 7

Is it serious ? No Windows 7 64 bits drivers for the Dell Z600

toutainp — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 14:17:31 +0000

Dell is the perfect school example of a company reaching the top, and declining quickly. With the Z600, they did a good job : a nice looking, quiet,16″ screen, full of features, secure and powerful computer. Add a weight around 1.5 Kgs and around 8 to 10 hours autonomy, and you got my preferred workhorse. [...]

Mettez un diaporama Flickr en fond d’écran sous Windows 7

toutainp — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 13:40:01 +0000

Avec Windows 7, Microsoft nous offre la possibilité (mal documentée …) de mettre en fond d’écran des images issues d’un flux RSS, plutôt que les thèmes d’origine. Pour mettre en fond d’écran le diaporama de vos photos préférées par exemple, vous devez : Disposez d’un flux RSS avec les images à afficher. Exemple avec le [...]

Running Windows 7 on a MacBook Pro : The complete walkthrough

toutainp — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 08:11:04 +0000

For some people, setting up Windows 7 on a MacBook Pro may seem like trying to breed a bull with a goat. But you have to remember that the MacBook Pro is one of the best PC hardware out of there, and by the time Windows Vista was released, it was the best hardware to run it on (if you ever wanted to run Vista ...).

So when I decided this week to give Windows 7 it's chance, I decided to wipe out Leopard from my MacBook Pro, and to set up Windows 7 as the sole OS on it.

While the whole operation is not so difficult, there are a few steps where having guidance may be useful, and this is the purpose of this article.