Month: June 2006
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Amazing Optical Illusions!
A web site with plenty of amazing optical illusions (but not as much as the Optical illusion category of my own web site, of course!). More than enough to loose yourself, or to loose your steadiness. Straight lines
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The fine art of Seppuku
Often erroneously known in the West as “hara-kiri”, the Japanese ritual suicide is more dramatic art with strict rules and conditions, than merely killing yourself. This page gives you a good insight about it.
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7D/A100 – Compared advantages
Seeing the recent launch of the new Sony Alpha A100, some people asked me whether they should buy immediately a Konica-Minolta Dynax/Maxxum 7D or wait a little more for a Sony Alpha A100. So, let’s try to summarize the situation. My motto, seeing the short delay, Wait for image quality. the Alpha A100 will not…
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No DirectX 10 for XP – Go Vista
News from The Inquirer: Vista will be the only Operating System supporting DirectX 10 (the latest version of the video-game-oriented graphic support software). This is bad news for those intending to keep WindowsXP and willing to use the latest video games and entertainment software in 2007. You will have to switch to Vista, like it…
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Gigantic panoramic windshield
Even better than old-timers panoramic windshields, better than the glass roof of Peugeot or Citroën cars, here comes the gigantic panoramic windshield at GM-Opel-Vauxhall. The new Astra GTC will have a windshield going up to a point far behind the normal position of the driver and allows the Summer sun to enter easily the interior…
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RawShooter bought by Adobe
Market concentration ahead! While Adobe just announced buying Pixmantec the designer of RawShooter, a very good utilities program to handle RAW files (digital photography images, uncompressed, straigth out of the digital camera sensor). For me, this looks like food for thought. Indeed, while buying a product (partially) in competition with its own, Adobe is actively…