Author: Yves Roumazeilles
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Water on Mars: Evidence on video
An American student, Andrew Shaner, curently preparing his PhD thesis, created a YouTube video to present the elements that scientists have to show that water was available on Mars and may (still) be available. YouTube link Source: Futura-Sciences.
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Trillix decompiles Flash
You don’t have such a need everyday of your life. However, when you need to translate a small Flash program, when you want to grab elements that the graphics design agency failed to deliver with the Flash program you got, it’s time to decompile a Flash application. And there’s a good solution: Trillix.
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Drivers, benchmarks and new products
This is becoming weird. A few years ago, if a graphics card manufacturer brought a version of a graphic driver specially prepared for a specific software, everybody cried wolf and it was a scandal, a benchmark cheat and unwelcome optimisation to favor results on a specific measurement. Today, all this evolved significantly. Did you notice…
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Security is easy again
The toughest part of staying secure with your software programs is to know when to go and fetch a new patch/update that is critical to the security of your computer. Secunia brings the solution with Personal Software Inspector (PSI), a software application that checks the updates for the software programs that interest you.
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How to set RSS feeds as your desktop
Want the top news you’re interested in without opening up a browser? There is a way to do it in just six steps if you are willing to exploit the RSS feeds made available by most news web sites. Instructibles (via Download Squad).
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Pentaxians go to Pentaxian.com
The Pentaxian.com web site just opened and welcomes the Pentax-lovers in a community-based environment.
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Live Rock n’Roll and die young
Rock stars do not have a quiet life. But they often have violent or surprising deaths. When you’re a star, you need to stay one even in the process of dying. The 50 Most Awesomely Dead Rock Stars. But as if this was not completely obvious, there is an English scientist (he’s from Liverpool John…
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The story of the two little robots who wouldn’t die
Sometimes, science goes hand-in-hand with the most romantic story. This is the case of the two Mars rovers sent by NASA to the red planet. Their mission has been extended and extended while they strived well beyond their official life expectancy. Nowadays, they are out of a large dust storm that had all scientists worried.…
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Record camera obscura, record photograph
A photograph of no less than 10 by 30 meters. Made in a plane hangar used as dark chamber and with a swimming pool used to develop the record image. This is a group of photographers collectively known as The Legacy Project that made the mad project possible. Nothing was utterly impossible. Everything was astoundingly…