Author: Yves Roumazeilles
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Super pet
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Lifehacker Top 10: Network utilities
The excellent LifeHacker web site has a good list of top network utilities.
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First astroport will be in New Mexico
Las Cruces, New Mexico, will be the place to go in 2008 or 2009 when Virgin Galactic opens flights to space for business and tourism. In preparation, the SpacePort has to be built. URS Corporation and Foster + Partners have won the international competiton for soon-to-be-realized New Mexico Spaceport Authority Building. Passengers to the Moon,…
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A Beginner’s Guide to Mind Mapping Meetings
This Mind Mapping technique is essentially simple to use, but it can be useful or necessary to be guided not to let yourself wander around aimlessly. That is why I appreciated to find this Beginner’s Guide to Mind Mapping Meetings at FileHacker.
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GigaPan: billions of pixels on panoramas
Photographers are avid of more pixels per frame. Most of them are also fond of panoramic photos (they look so cool). Why not join forces and make a contraption able to shoot panoramas with billions of pixels (multi-giga-pixel panoramas)? This is what Charmed Labs and Carnegie Mellon University did when they developed the GigaPan robotic…
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Vase or faces
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Dave Anastasi
You should visit the web site of Dave Anastasi (East3rd): He is publishing quite regularly his own photos. They are mostly abstract and colourful like this one: I even subscribed to his RSS feed to be sure to receive all of these photos as soon as they are available. A refreshing sight, a surprise per…
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World’s biggest digital sensor on a telescope
The Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS) is a project that is being prepared to hunt for dangerous asteroids that may hit Earth (and possibly wipe out Humans like one did for the Dinosaurs). Technically, the sensor is impressive. It’s no less than 40cm-wide and hosts 1.4billion pixels (can you say “1.4 giga-pixel…
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Blog action day: Save the planet, energy-saving computer tricks
Today is Blog Action Day: The day that bloggers chose to try and help save the planet from the impact of Human activity. For my own part, I decided to collect a few ideas to save energy in your computer usage: Upgrade your gear Dim your screen Consolidate and virtualize computers Turn off peripherals Kill…