I had already told you about Yotophoto, the image search engine allowing you to choose the kind of copyright or legal rights associated to the image (and, thus, giving you an east way to find free images for your web site, while keeping you in the legal high road). Today, Yotophoto disclose another very interesting…
Month: September 2006
Total recall for Sony Li-Ion batteries
After several weeks of companies lining up to recall portable PC using Sony Lithium-Ion batteries (Dell, Apple, Lenovo/IBM, toshiba, etc.), the Japanese manufacturer decided to move boldly: In order to avoid further spontaneous combustions and explosions, all laptop PC batteries using the Lithium-Ion technology from Sony are subject to a worldwide recall. There were already…
Audit your Unix process list
When you are managing a Unix machine (it is about the same thing for GNU/Linux machines), you are often interested in maintaining a good level of security. For this, one of the most important things is to ensure that the process list (the list of all activities) is containing only secure processes. Checking this is…
Your photo on a pillow
This is the product offering of an American company (TreasureKnit). You can ask them to knit a plaid, or the surface of a pillow or a blanket starting from the photographic image that you would provide. Even better than the large format prints, here comes tailor-made tapestry. I doubt it will always produce fine art…
No Canon 40D in view at the Photokina
Canon seems to have its hands full with the presentation of the low-end Canon 400D (Rebel XTi) and nothing is seen about any future replacement of the ageing 20D and 30D high-end SLR. Some are now saying that there would be no 40D, but a lower-priced full-frame solution heir to the superb (but too expensive)…
Wild animals have a web site to show their best
This is really the feeling you have when you visit the web site of Christine and Michel Denis-Huot where you will find some of their best images or those that were most successful, from their work as wildlife photographers. I heartily recommend the images primées (awards). Michel and Christine spend months out of their home…
Sigma SD14: It’s out in the wild!
Here it comes! Sigma finally made its new camera public. The SD14 is the serious successor of the SD10 digital SLR camera. The Sigma web site tells us much more than the teaser it was presenting in the recent weeks. As could be expected, the center spot of the show is the Foveon X3 sensor…
Choosing a graphics card
So, you don’t want to spend too much time checking benchmarks and prices before buying your next PC graphics card. Tom’s Hardware has a nice solution in an article that gives the solution: The Best Gaming Video Cards for the Money: October 2006. The selection may change in time (this market is a real ground…
AdSense-Deluxe to ease Google advertisment on a WordPress web site
For some time now, I use a small plug-in that I feel is quite nice to help me manage specifically the advertisment banners from Google AdSense on my web site. You may have already noticed one or two of those ads that appear right in the body of a posted article. Usually, it is quite…