Author: Yves Roumazeilles

  • Sony upgrade and Canon recall

    Sony upgrade and Canon recall

    Two bits of news today that are quite significant of what happens with most of today’s high-end cameras. First, Sony just announced a firmware upgrade for the just-launched Alpha 700 professional photo camera. Some reviewers (like Chasseur d’Images) had noticed that the excellent sensor was not giving its best with the tested cameras (low-contrast foliage…

  • Chalk optical illusions

    Chalk optical illusions

    Here is a web site with nice photos of chalk works for optical illusions. From MOI

  • Durian

    Durian

    Graphic animation to be seen at least once. link

  • Baby snow leopards

    Baby snow leopards

    Born in the Berlin zoo. Markus Schreiber

  • 52 photos that warped our collective minds

    52 photos that warped our collective minds

    Year after year, there are a few photo images that wrote History. LukeProg found 52 of them. The choice is always subjective, but most of them really hit the public.

  • DirectX, back to the future

    Whoever has been using DirectX software on Windows (and this means PC gamers, and only them) knows that you simultaneously need to continuously install new upgrades of the humongous software package from Microsoft in order to keep the best performance out of the PC games and the will to uninstall it or to come back…

  • Crysis, the demo is coming

    Crysis, the demo is coming

    We are told that the demo for the Crysis PC video game will be available tomorow (Saturday) on a large number of game web sites. Update: The demo is now available. Beware! It’s no less than 1.7GB of a download. Go and fetch it from one of the following sites: FileFront Worthplaying Gamershell 3D Downloads…

  • Storage on line

    Tom’s Hardware just compared 7 online services for online storage of data. Take your storage online

  • Spell-checking with Opera

    I am in love with the Opera web browser. I use it for 99% of my web browsing, so it is also the tool I use when writing posts for the roumazeilles.net web site. The only thing that I did not have right out-of-the-box after download was the ability of checking my spelling (and several…