Month: September 2007
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Craziest captchas on the web
We find more and more of these graphic checks that are supposed to protect a web site against the programmed automatons. the idea is to ask a question that (intelligent) human beings can answer and a (silly) automaton will not. But sometimes, the author of the web site goes a little too far and you…
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Polaroid photo shots for abstract art
Grant Hamilton has a nice web site of abstract photos taken in Polaroid.
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Protect the front lens of your super-tele-lens
A super-tele-lens is a high-end beautiful piece of glass. Consequently, this is both expensive and fragile. LensCoat offers protection hoodies for the front lens of your super-tele from $13 to $25. To visit.
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Water on Mars: Evidence on video
An American student, Andrew Shaner, curently preparing his PhD thesis, created a YouTube video to present the elements that scientists have to show that water was available on Mars and may (still) be available. YouTube link Source: Futura-Sciences.
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Trillix decompiles Flash
You don’t have such a need everyday of your life. However, when you need to translate a small Flash program, when you want to grab elements that the graphics design agency failed to deliver with the Flash program you got, it’s time to decompile a Flash application. And there’s a good solution: Trillix.
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Drivers, benchmarks and new products
This is becoming weird. A few years ago, if a graphics card manufacturer brought a version of a graphic driver specially prepared for a specific software, everybody cried wolf and it was a scandal, a benchmark cheat and unwelcome optimisation to favor results on a specific measurement. Today, all this evolved significantly. Did you notice…
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Security is easy again
The toughest part of staying secure with your software programs is to know when to go and fetch a new patch/update that is critical to the security of your computer. Secunia brings the solution with Personal Software Inspector (PSI), a software application that checks the updates for the software programs that interest you.
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How to set RSS feeds as your desktop
Want the top news you’re interested in without opening up a browser? There is a way to do it in just six steps if you are willing to exploit the RSS feeds made available by most news web sites. Instructibles (via Download Squad).
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Pentaxians go to Pentaxian.com
The Pentaxian.com web site just opened and welcomes the Pentax-lovers in a community-based environment.