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GANTT projects for free

(Friday, November 6th, 2009)

Microsoft Project is expensive, very expensive. But once you started using it, you can’t stand not having a nice clean GANTT project chart. Why not get a free Microsoft Project? Even better than downloading MS-Project for free, I am proposing you to use an on-line GANTT chart/project builder that is completely free and works on-line: Gantter.

Gantter

Gantter

I have been really impressed by the quality of such a software program. It may need to get some interface polish for Opera users (I had a couple of little display bugs), but the operation is fully adequate for many projects.

Extraordinary Chinese health notice

(Thursday, October 8th, 2009)

20 foods you should not eat together

20 foods you should not eat together

You can’t read Chinese? That’s a pity. You would learn from this official announcement that some foods should not be eaten together (it is not clear how the exact risk was identified, though).

According to Xinjiang, the list of terrible mixtures is:

  1. Pork + water chestnuts = a stomach ache
  2. Beef + chestnuts = vomiting
  3. Lamb meat + watermelon = a decreased vigor for life
  4. Dog meat + green beans = poisonous to the body
  5. Rabbit meat + celery = loss of hair
  6. Chicken + celery = a decreased vigor for life
  7. Goose meat + chicken eggs = a decreased vigor for life
  8. Turtle meat + amaranth (a nutritional herb) = poisonous to the body
  9. Carp + liquorice (not the candy) = poisonous to the body
  10. Crab + persimmon fruit = diarrhea
  11. Chicken eggs + saccharin = poisonous to the body, potentially fatal
  12. Brown sugar + preserved eggs = poisonous to the body
  13. White wine (白酒) + persimmon = chest pains
  14. Onions + honey = damaged vision
  15. Radish + fungus = dermatitis (a skin disease)
  16. Bean curd + honey = makes you deaf
  17. Potatoes + bananas = (not translated)
  18. Bananas + sweet potato = a bloated belly
  19. Peanuts + cucumbers = harmful to the body
  20. Sweet potatoes + persimmon = lithiasis (formation of stones, such as the kidney stone)

I knew that you wanted to know about it…

The map of my trips

(Sunday, August 9th, 2009)

Firefox: more than Internet Explorer

(Tuesday, August 4th, 2009)

I am not sure that this is exact all over the Internet, but I just noticed that this is true for YLovePhoto, one of my web sites: There are more visitors using Firefox than Internet Explorer.

YLovePhoto.com

YLovePhoto.com

Then, I checked for Roumazeilles.net itself, and I noticed the same situation:

Roumazeilles.net

Roumazeilles.net

It appears that Firefox is moving very fast. Who would have thought -a few years ago- that Microsoft’s world domination would be toppled like that?

Ukiyo-e books by Kitagawa Utamaro

(Sunday, July 26th, 2009)

A friend of mine recently bought a copy of a Japanese wood engraving. While reading this article from BibliOdyssey, about the wood engravings of Kitagawa Utamaro, I thought I should share some of the pictures of this artist.

Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806)

Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806)

Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806)

Kitagawa Utamaro (1753-1806)

Planetary pictures and wallpapers

(Saturday, July 11th, 2009)

I consider that the most useful and often the most interesting wallpapers for your computer desktop are images that are relatively feature-less. A picture full of little details continuously grabbing your attention is a major nuisance. It’s much better to have either a very smooth image or a photo containing a lot of continuous tones.

Windows 7 official wallpapers

Windows 7 official wallpapers

Look at the full set of the Windows 7 wallpapers. This is the upcoming version of Windows (after Windows Vista, it seems that Microsoft intends to switch back to a numbering scheme). Most of them may be colourful, but with very smooth surfaces where your icons will be appearing quite neatly and they offer a nice contrast.

Fresh Impact Crater Formed between February 2005 and July 2005 / Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

Fresh Impact Crater Formed between February 2005 and July 2005
Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona

So, I was quite interested when I stumbled upon the collection of pictures taken by the HiRise (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera installed on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter). Shooting photos of Mars surface, this photo camera brings extraordinary color images that provide nice patterns to be used as background for your Windows desktop (or even Linux or Mac desktop) and can be renewed quite regularly: Their catalog is available on the University of Arizona web site.

Furthermore, they provide an enormous resolution for their images which is a very good way to extract any size you may need for your extra-high-resolution background or to cover your 2- or 3-LCD display. Or even more. If you feel that there own selection of wallpapers is not enough:

  • 800×600
  • 1024×768
  • 1152×864
  • 1280×960
  • 1440×1080
  • 1600×1200
  • 1920×1440
  • 2048×1536
  • 2560×1600

You can still stick to the original size (JPEG-2000 format images range between 0.5GB and 3GB).

And the good news is that there is no copyright restrictions, so you could do pretty much what you want with them: Really free desktop wallpapers.

The DTB saws cameras in half

(Wednesday, July 8th, 2009)

The Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin is a museum presenting a large mount of technology history. Quite naturally, they are biased toward presenting a lot of German achievements and this country is known for hosting some of the very best optical engineers and being rightfully proud of brands like Carl Zeiss, Leitz/Leica.

Charlie Sorrel wrote a piece of article for Wired.com, titled “Gallery of Sawn-In-Half Cameras” that I intensely recommend reading.


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100 public libraries on Internet

(Sunday, July 5th, 2009)

CollegeDegree.com lists 100 Extensive University Libraries from Around the World that Anyone Can Access.

Knowledge is always free.

Fly like an eagle

(Thursday, June 25th, 2009)

…but I couldn’t fly.

Jose Luis Ortiz has changed it all. He installed a small video camera on one of his royal eagles.


Link to YouTube

And now, you and me can fly, really fly. Breath-taking! Boarding a plane became so down-to-Earth. I now want to have wings, I want to fly like an eagle…

Safari 4, fast new browser

(Monday, June 15th, 2009)

Apple is not only delivering sleek computer designs and nice little mobile phones. They are also producing a good web browser: Safari.

It’s new version, Safari 4, is just out. Faster, still as good and powerful, but Apple is now claiming the crown for the “fastest” web browser. It could well be possible when Snow Leopard OS-X becomes available later this year. Running natively as a 64-bit Mac application, it could gain 50% from today’s already powerful base of Safari 4.

Safari version 4

Safari version 4

Safari 4 is available for Windows XP, Vista, or mac OS X 10.4.11 or newer.

Blind date, with a Dungeon Master

(Monday, May 18th, 2009)

You could fully appreciate this video only if you have some experience of Role Playing, but I couldn’t help posting it here.

Dungeon Master

Stan, this video is partly dedicated to you, the Dungeon Master.

Cooking in text, pictures and video

(Sunday, May 10th, 2009)

Cooking recipes were the excuse for millions of Internet users (Ed: maybe not millions) to write down the advice of their grand-mothers, quite often with a desperating lack of inspiration. But I just found a couple of nice web sites that could be checked as much for their recipes as for the pictures [1] or the videos going along with them.

  • Habeas BrulĂ©e is superbly written with elegant recipes and generally great photos.
  • Rouxbe proposes recipes also very generous but presented in video.
Rhubarb Soup with Olive Cookie

Rhubarb Soup with Olive Cookie

PDF-to-Word for free (online tool)

(Sunday, April 19th, 2009)

You wanted to get the contents of this PDF file in a usable form. say! a Word document.

Here comes PDF-to-Word, touted as “The Most Accurate PDF-to-Word Converter”, which may be quite right.

It’s online, it’s free, it’s only 3 steps away:

PDF-to-Word (free online converter)

PDF-to-Word (free online converter)

The converted document will arrive directly in your email box.

Keen eyes like yours will have noticed the opportunity to produce not only Word documents but also RTF documents which can be read as easily in Word as in any other word processor on any kind of machine.

Big Earth

(Monday, April 13th, 2009)

True Marble™ is a true color, photo-realistic, high resolution, 3 terabyte image of the earth. All data is provided at a base 15 meter resolution. Even if this was not shot in a single time (sattelite imagery is a bit more complex than Gigapan panoramas), this is really stupendous. But even more, you can download your own reduced subset for free. Keep cool, this is a lot of downloads of big files (they are even available on BitTorrent – much more practical than FTP downloads, and faster too). But it’s definitely there.

True Marble - Earth at high resolution

True Marble - Earth at high resolution

True Marble GLCD™ by Unearthed Outdoors, LLC is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.

Best shorts

(Sunday, March 22nd, 2009)

Link love

Those are the best links I found recently. I could not write a full post about them, but they are worth visiting:

Most-read articles

The news as you make it:

Most visited categories

Your attention does not stop to 1 post only:

Free movies (many)

(Saturday, March 14th, 2009)

We all love when things come free to us. Here I found a treasure trove of movies that are free to download. Legally.

Thanks to the Canadians of the National Film Board of Canada. They give us feature-length movies, documentaries, animated short movies. Everything, of the best quality, at the best price: Free.

blue-crab

Ryan Air has new ideas to charge its customers

(Wednesday, March 4th, 2009)

We knew that Ryan Air was an Irish airline able to bring air fares to a very low level. They use all tricks at their disposition to spend as little money as possible. But sometimes they go too far and their latest ideas give a bad press to the whole low-cost airline industry which were merely having you pay for your lunch in the plane (and, after all, why not pay your own soda like in any convenient pub on the ground?) Here are some of their latest brillant proposals (sometimes already in place):

  • They tried to tell that there should be no valuables (sunglasses in the trial case) in the checked-in luggage. A judge corrected this.
  • It appears that on several trips, buying a round-trip is more expensive that buying two one-way tickets. Always check!
  • Ryan Air want to fine passengers caught with a hand luggage over the weight limit (checked-in luggage has to be paid for).
  • Ryan Air proposes to charge passengers to use the in-plane toilets. Your flight would better be on-time if you don’t have small change, or will they accept credit cards…

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