Author: Yves Roumazeilles

  • FTP drive mapped onto Windows

    FTP drive mapped onto Windows

    Sometimes, you make a heavy use of a FTP server. But it is tiresome to go to a separate program in order to copy files to and from this server. There is an easy solution under Windows: Add a FTP server onto a disk drive letter. For this, thanks to CyberNetNews explanations, you can map…

  • Amazonian landscape

    Amazonian landscape

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  • Scarlet-headed Blackbird

    Scarlet-headed Blackbird

    Will you be able to find the female bird in this flock? Click on the thumbnail images to enlarge them This small bird is quite difficult to approach, but we were lucky to meet several of them in Brazil this year. Scarlet-headed Blackbird (Troupiale à tête rouge, Amblyramphus holosericeus).

  • Manufacturing an Airbus A380

    A time-lapse video to show the birth of a giant airplane. YouTube link

  • Western Digital: audio/video police included

    Western Digital: audio/video police included

    What could be the use of network hard disk drive of one Tera-Byte which would strictly refuse to serve files because there may be a risk of breaching licensing agreement potentially applicable to them? This is the question that potential buyers should ask before purchasing the Western Digital disc drives using WD Anywhere Access: WD…

  • Savanna Hawk

    Savanna Hawk

    Click on the thumbnail images to enlarge them Savanna Hawk (Buse roussâtre – Buteogallus meridionalis) in Brazil.

  • Rotating optical illusion

    Rotating optical illusion

    Stare in the image and see if you can maintain the image fully static!

  • Hot pixels, stuck pixels, Minolta/Sony solution

    Hot pixels, stuck pixels, Minolta/Sony solution

    Sometimes, on a digital camera, there are small defect on the sensor. They translate into a pixel or two which seem to be either black, colored (hot) or white (stuck). This is ususally not much of a problem, but it can be very annoying. On my reliable but old and still alive-and-kicking Konica-Minolta Dynax 7D…

  • Black and red dragonfly

    Black and red dragonfly

    Click on the thumbnail images to enlarge them If you know the exact name of this dragonfly, I’ll be happy to learn it. It is quite common in Brazil (both in Pantanal and Amazonia) when you have a small water bed.