News

November 2004

PDF-Creator: is a free and simple tool to produce PDF files from any Windows application, simply by printing. Simple and free, what more do you want?

Sorry everybody: A refreshing web site; Let's not forget that 49% of americans are as sorry as we are.

HalfLife2: is available since 16 November. Some benchmarks to know if your machine will be up to the game.

BitTorrent: The general opinion of P2P users is that Kazaa is slowly receeding under the judicial attacks from the RIAA (mainly in the US, but in the UK, France and a few other European countries, too). It seems that it translates into a move to BitTorrent (for the largest files) and eDonkey/eMule (used a lot in France and in Europe).

Truly fight back: this PC that is becoming so annoying. Just click and visit this little spanish application to ease all the day's tension with a few kicks.

Dynax 7 : first US deliveries on November 12 according to the forum talks. Probably not enough for the very first orders, but it is too soon to say if the shortage will last more than a few days.

Also seen in the UK, in Switzerland, in Sweden. This has really started.

HalfLife2: will be officially available on November 16. With the help of an online validation, Valve also insured that there would be no leak before said-date (and hour) for all the world. Everybody starts at the same time even if you're a journalist or you shoplift it out of the warehouses.

After the American elections: and after GWB's wictory, the Canadian ministry of immigration announced that visits to the web site for immigration candidates suddenly shot to the sky (from 22000 up to 115000 visits per day). Beware, Americains, you will have to accept to be subjects of HM the Queen of England - an ally of course, but a queen all the same.

Source: µ the INQUIRER

Canon & Nikon fight together for the best rebate: Preparing the holiday season, while we are still waiting for the availability of the Dynax/Maxxum 7D from Konica Minolta (announced 12 or 19 November depending on who you listen to), Canon and Nikon exchange gun shots on the American market for the title of the best rebate coupon on DSLR: from US$100 to US$500!

Source:

Internet Explorer competiton is out for you: While FireFox is just officially out (already 5% markey share), I have still a preference for Opera.

 

All Nikon guides: a surprising web site, very deep, with some nice photos and - mostly - special guide for your Nikon, cleaning advice for your sensor. bythom.com.

Coupons for Amazon: A web site that stores the available promotional coupons for your online orders at Amazon.

CD-ROM utilities: I found these useful tools to check and/or restore damaged CD-ROMs.

• CDcheck
• Nero CDspeed2000
• CDROM tool

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Other links

• An excellent freeware source : NoNags.
• Tom's Hardware Guide is THE reference web site about computer hardware. Can be found in various languages:
• English THG
• French
• German
• Italian
• etc.

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