Author: Yves Roumazeilles
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CPU performance decoding HD-video
ArsTechnica has a very interesting article showing how nVidia and AMD-ATI show different performance while decoding High-Def video. There is no clear winner. It all depends on the type of video applied.
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Make Windows XP look like Vista
You do not want to sell your first-born child to buy Windows Vista, but you’d like to be able to brag about your having all the bells and whistles of Vista. Just keep Windows XP and install the Vista Transformation Pack 8, your PC will look a little like this:
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Phenom, incompatible with existing AM2 motherboards?
This is more or less what has to be concluded from reading the articles currently published about the compatibility (more supposed than real) between the new AMD 4-core processor and the existing AM2-socket motherboards. But it seems that AMD will have to be a little more patient. This is not a very good omen for…
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Toco toucan, in flight
Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it This bird is supposed to be very easy to spot, but it’s only one of the three toucans I saw in nearly three weeks. Toco toucan (Ramphastos toco, Toucan toco). Brazil, 2007. To give you an idea of the difficulty of shooting some of these bird pictures,…
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Art Nouveau design
Thanks again to BibliOdyssey, here are nice Art Nouveau patterns. By Maurice Pillard-Verneuil (1869-1942).
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Masai Mara Safari Camp
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Top 10 file software (Windows)
List of the best file-oriented utilities for Windows: Restoration Double-Killer / Easy Duplicate Finder TeraCopy WinMerge Foldershare / SyncToy DriveImage XML (already presented here w few weeks ago) WinDirStat Xplorer² SyncBack TrueCrypt According to LifeHacker.
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Canon camera museum
Canon has been a major manufacturer of photo cameras for many years. Is this worth a museum? I don’t know but they decided that they could not wait for somebody else to build it. Canon opened an online virtual museum of its cameras: the Canon camera museum. The Camera Hall is a database of historical…