Month: September 2007
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Opera singing is for everybody
Two of my friends will be giving a concert in a few days. To give them strength and assurance, here is an example of exceptionnal brilliance, a voice totally out of the ordinary and really not common. MP3 recording of Florence Foster Jenkins Florence Foster Jenkins really existed and sincerily thought that her voice was…
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Phil Collins won’t like this ad for Cadbury
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HDMI video projector is all curves
The offering of video projectors is evolving quite quickly at this end of the year. I’d like to give only two examples: Today on the walls of Paris metro there is an offer for a less-than-400€ 800×600 2000-lumen 35dB-noise projector. It is even less expensive than a replacement lamp for my own Sony projector. Today…
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Download Microsoft Office for free (on Apple Mac)
Really! Who would like to have Microsoft Office. It’s expensive. If you donwload it for free, it’s just illegal. However, you can download the excellent Neo Office for OS/X (a Mac OS/X port of OpenOffice). It’s now available.
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No digital noise photography
Guillermo Luijk has a very interesting technique to remove completely all noise from digital photos. We know that this is a difficult task, but his solution is defenitely worth trying. It is relatively simple. The steps are: Shot the scene in a correct exposure according to our usual workflow Repeat the shot now reducing shutter…
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Download free PC games: FarCry, Prince of Persia, …
Just spotted: A few excellent games to download freely from FilePlanet. Free version: FarCry (I recommend heavily this excellent FPS, I still play with it) Free version: Prince of Persia: Sands of Time Free version: Rayman Raving Rabbids Apparently, this is ad-supported so you have to accept a little annoyance and to have an account…
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Blog Action Day
I will participate to Blog Action Day (posting on 15th of October specifically about an action that could help save the planet from the actions of men). If you have a blog, you should do the same.
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. faster, less easily
Faster: The most recent patch (1.004) of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Schadow of Chernobyl video game is remarkable because it accelerates notably the performance of this game on your PC without changing its hardware configuration. Less easily: It was forecasted to have S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Schadow of Chernobyl in download on Steam, the game distribution system from…
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A faster OpenOffice
Rather than downloading a pirated copy of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), I keep repeating that you should try a free download of OpenOffice. But some people complain that it is too slow. I am not of this opinion, but I found a post about how to accelerate OpenOffice on an Ubuntu GNU/Linux. But this…