Author: Yves Roumazeilles
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Loss of communication
I have to apologize for a rather lengthy stop of the database services at our server. Unfortunately, this left Roumazeilles.net as a dead web site during a few hours. This is corrected now, but we still have to find exactly what happened (in order to avoid this to hit us again)…
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Anatomy of an illusion
All the details about a simple optical illusion and what we can learn from it about the inner workings of the human brain.
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Quiet time with a Port wine
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Nikon D700, boost continuous shooting
The new full Frame SLR camera from Nikon is just out and there is already a little hack appearing to give it additional features. The Nikon D700 has the capacity to shoot continuously at 8fps if you use the additonal grip. Nikon Watch found a way to allow this very high frame rate without the…
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Flash photography
Two articles written exactly for photographers willing to improve their flash expertise. I found them on the Internet and wanted to share them with you, photo friends. Natural looking flash. Right! It may be very difficult to get a nice looking lighting without burning everything with lights that cry “flash”. White Seamless Tutorial. A 5-part…
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Two Sony Alpha cameras
Tomorrow, Sony will present to a tighly selected audience a few new photo products among which everybody expects to find the flagship camera taht was announced already more than a year ago. This camera will be the first Sony camera using a Full Frame sensor with 24 millions of pixels. Most people think that the…
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Sun and shadows
Where are the shadows? Where is the sun? This simple optical illusion could let you think that MC Escher did not survived to 2008. Source: Erathic Eric via Dump Trumpet.
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Cheater in the bull fight
Unknown author.
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Stick any program to the icon tray
Here comes a small freeware utility program that does only one thing, but does it right. Trayconizer is used to put any Windows program into the icon tray (not only the ones allowing it explicitly). For example, you can put the NotePad program in the tray icon with a single shortcut containing something like: C:\Path\To\Trayconizer.exe…