Nuit Blanche from Spy Films on Vimeo. “Nuit Blanche” by Arev Manoukian (Spy Films).
Month: February 2010
Model train lovers, get your magnifying glass!
Really! It will be in strong need to admire this Z-scale model of an N-gauge train. It’s real small (it was used to recreate a small model train going in a shop window inside a Z-scale model train). Admire the wonderful work of art! YouTube link
How to test a consumer product (telephone)
When you are an industrial company intending to launch a new product for a consumer market, you’d better think about everything and make sure that it will sustain all the conditions absolutely improperly hard that customers will submit it to (everything indicates that you and me, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Consumer, are ugly brutes). In…
How to light highways in green?
No! green light does no reduce accident numbers. A generous light helps in improving security. But this uses a lot of electricity and it would be preferable to ensure that it comes from a sustainable source. This is the concept proposed by TAK Studio which uses the atmospheric turbulences produced by vehicles passing on the…
Less keyboard, more work
We do so much typing that we tend to forget about it. But there are ways to improve the situation (ensuring that you type less to produce more text).one of the best ways is to identify the texts you keep typing on the keyboard. then, you just have to use a utility program to help…
OpenOffice.org v3.2 available for free download
The excellent office desktop suite, OpenOffice.org (Word, Excel and PowerPoint, in a free form, if you want) just moved to version 3.2 (still free). New features: Faster start-up times Compatibility with MS-Office 2007 documents Better Compatibility with MS-Office 97, 2000, XP documents, encrypted with a password Importation of dynamic tables from Excel Comments are now…
SixthSense
The TED Talk conferences are often a great moment of technologie accessible to the largest numbers and an opportunity for the démonstration of what could be our future if the great thinkers of our time work on it. The following conference (from Pranav Mistry) wants to give us a rought idea of perspectives opened by…
Mafia Wars: All in one post
By popular demand, I will group here all the posts I made previously about how to improve your Mafia Wars performance (Mafia Wars is the #1 Crime game on Facebook). Mafia Wars: Get a large mafia in no time Mafia Wars: Maximum loot Mafia Wars: How many points? Mafia Wars: Combat strategy Mafia Wars: Best…
Even more pixels: Dresden
We have seen many, but today’s world record is a 26-gigapixel panoramic image of Dresden, Germany. I did not write 26-megapixel. It’s 1000 times what you’d expect from a better-than-high-end digital SLR photo camera. This impressive photo is made of 1,665 individual shots captured with a Canon EOS 5D Mark II photo camera armed with…