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Month: February 2007

  • Earth in Flash, but seen from space

    You are willing to observe our planet Earth as seen from space in an interactive form? There is no better place than Flash Earth, a Flash software application allowing you easy navigation through the images from Google, Yahoo Maps, NASA, etc. This is a sort of cute synthesis for all these services in a very…

  • Game: Move your mouse

    One of those silly little games you spend too much time with: RubyTooth mouse 1.0 Attention! This does heavy use of sound immediately after loading of the Flash plug-in. You may prefer to turn the sound off before clicking on the link.

  • Why you want to start your own blog

    Some time ago, most people would not even think about creating a web site. Today, it became so easy to do (see another post coming soon) that the only question is not how, but why. Consequently, I decided to give you a few of the common ideas that led most web site designers and bloggers…

  • Your blog in 6 minutes

    You want your own blog? After all, it’s so easy. There are many solutions for this including: Create your own web site (preferably after reading my previous articles) Start a WordPress-based site in a matter of minutes on the WordPress.com server As a matter of fact, with the second solution, you will find all tools…

  • Use HTML tables, even with CSS styling

    After a previous post about the reasons there are not to use the HTML tables (and to prefer CSS tables), I want to come back to this issue with my own experience. When I went to the fifth version of this web site interface (the one you see at the time of posting this article),…

  • Creating a RAID-1 on OpenSUSE

    L’article existe aussi en français I have always be willing to test-run RAID technology for the storage of the files on my personal LAN. This technology has the advantage of being far more secure than the usual hard disc storage. By using more than one disc drive, RAID allows to gain additional security. In short,…

  • Upgrade to Vista without an installed Windows

    Information tidbit coming (indirectly) from Microsoft. It is possible to install a Vista upgrade even without having a previously installed Windows (it is quite interesting because of the tremendous price difference between full Vista and upgrade Vista). Apparently, according to Paul Thurrott, you only have to follow the steps: Boot on the upgrade Vista DVD…