Franck Brudieux recently made an impressive photo work on reptiles. Usually, reptiles are subject for nature photography insisting on placing the animal in its natural context. Here, Franck moved to a studio and decided to favor heavily the skins and surfaces of the animals and went for Black and White images. Something completely out of the usual as you can see on the following image.
This work is distributed by Agence BIOS and we sincerily hope that it will be sold to various papers.
If you jumped from Windows to GNU/linux you are certainly looking for the equivalent Linux programs for your previous Windows applications. This is exactly what the Linux Equivalent project provides: A list of Windows programs with their “equivalents” on GNU/Linux.
But you have to understand that some “equivalences” are not exactly on par with Windows programs.
Hoya and Pentax just announced that they reached an agreement on a merger between both companies that would result in the absorption of Pentax into the major glass manufacturer. Pentax shares will be exchanged against Hoya shares; Management will be shared between top brass coming from both companies.
The good news is that, even if Pentax needed some cash to keep operating at full performance, Hoya is a company that can well understand the photo market of Pentax. The photo activities (including the digital SLR) is kept and we can say that this is good news. Let’s hope that Hoya will make it much better than Konica when they purchased Minolta a few years ago.
N|vu is a web development application with a WYSIWYG interface that is aimed to be user friendly, easy and powerful. It is supposed to be a serious competition for major commercial tools like DreamWeaver (N|vu is a free download making it a good contender).
Unfortunately, since it comes from the Open Source world, N|vu tends to receive a lot of reviews, but not often from the professional web designers. This is why I appreciated a lot to find a specific review that is aimed at comparing N|vu with DreamWeaver and includes very real-life issues of every-day life of a web programmer/designer. It is not only scratching the surface (looking at the menus), but rather trying to extract the best of it (digging into CSS code generation, consistency of the interface, etc.)
If you consider using N|vu for your professional (or serious) HTML/CSS editing and web site design, I advise you to take 10 minutes to read this review. Even if it dates back to 2004, it contains very neat information.
One of the most complicated problems of Science is to reach full reproductibility of experiments. Even more, it is merely an issue of knowing how one experiment was done. It is in this context of research and education that the JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments) web site was created to present videos of some scientific experiments.
It is not always spectacular. Most of the videos will probably not bring a Nobel prize to their author, but there are plenty of interesting things, like this dissection of Drosophila ovaries (the Drosophila fly is the most common guinea pig of biology).
Already a great marketing success. While everybody was expecting the announcement of a new VoIP (Voice-over-IP) phone set by Apple under the name of iPhone, there is a product launched under that exact name by… Linksys.
The networking company is stealing all the publicity from Apple in a coup. But it is not only a marketing move, it is going along the impressive offer of no less than five (5) different phone sets including:
finally, it’s happened! Microsoft announced officially the end of FrontPage (Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 and Microsoft Expression Web Designer will come in Spring to replace it).
As a matter of fact, FrontPage did not really succeed in penetrating the pro market for web designers. Its utterly simplistic approach to web design was obviously far behind some serious competitors (or leaders) like DreamWeaver. But, non-specialists now stop using it -essentially- because they no longer need it. Today, ready-to-install blogs (like WordPress, or Joomla or Mamba or SPIP) have already marginalized web site design, but solutions including both the blog software and the web hosting (like WordPress.com) allow to forget completely about both the tool and the installation. You can immediately start using it… without even looking at FrontPage.
So, FrontPage saw its public disappear. FrontPage lost its justification. We won’t cry.
I have been testing DU-meter as a way to display the network traffic around my computer. It shows a nice little graph to present the network traffic in a very usable/understandable way like here:
This graph is updated in real-time which means that color bar allow you to recognize incoming or outgoing traffic, but this is continuously updated according to the real activity of your PC.
Despite the nice look of DU-meter, I was a bit annoyed by the fact that it is shareware and that the end of the trial period was arriving. Actually, I was able to find another program providing the same kind of services in a freeware package. The look is slightly different:
However, BitMeter2 have about the same set of features. Both are providing the same semi-transparent window (allowing to see the underlying windows through semi-transparency of the graph). The only thing that could be improved is the size of the BitMeter2 window that seems impossible to change (contrary to Du-Meter).
It may be a little oddity, but I feel it’s an interesting idea for all those who want to browse the web anonymously. Usually, there is only one solution: using an anonymizer proxy, but APAZ is bringing you a nice twist to it by allowing you to build your own anonymizer proxy (a server allowing to hide the actual origin of a web communication).
APAZ is a small PHP software that can be installed nearly anywhere you can host a small PHP-based web application. It provide on-demand anonymizer proxy. It’s no longer necessary to dig into long lists of more or less available proxy servers.
Have you been contacted by an unauthorised overseas firm trying to sell or buy stock shares (in the United Kingdom)? The FSA would like to hear from you.
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is an independent non-governmental body, given statutory powers by the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 to regulate the stock market and assist inverstors in the financial markets.
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