Author: Yves Roumazeilles
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All the Warner catalog for free
And it does not even look illegal: Warner signed a partnership with imeem to share the adveertisment revenues from the web site when the North American users freely listen to the music freely available from the Warner catalog (including Madonna, Linkin Park, Green Day, Josh Groban, Faith Hill, My Chemical Romance, Big & Rich, John…
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An excavator and a truck
The most ingenuous method to unload an excavator from a truck. You no longer need a crane and a ramp. From Thailand, through Neatorama.
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Palm is out of emergency care
Palm, the PDA manufacturer taht competes directly with the Microsoft technology known as Windows Pocket, has been suffering for years in an economical context very adverse to this market segment. But they received in beginning of June a nice shot of dollars in the form of financing by private-equity Elevation to the tune of $325…
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USB memory sticks
Netherlanders are really nature lovers. Even in USB memory sticks.
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Latest news
You know that S.T.A.L.K.E.R., the FPS game of last month, after several years of development, was an instant hit on the market. As is usual in this kind of market, past the first three months, the game will be already old and the developers must work out the next steps. So, here are a few…
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CPU, DRAM memory: Buy now!
After several months telling you about the plumeting prices of CPU processors and DRAM memory, I have to inform you that the industry signals are changing. AMD and Intel are kicking prices down a last time in July before the rush that will only happen at the end of the year (with the arrival of…
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Emacs for the Aqua Mac
Aquamacs is a software program in development for two years, but the ambition is quite interesting: Integrate Emacs, the prfered text editor of Roumazeilles.net, into the Aqua environment for Mac. This is an impressive feat because they are at the opposite ends of technology: Aqua is associated to graphics elegance, subtlety and grace allied to…
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Crysis: The game entered the last hype phase
You know it, one of the most eagerly anticipated video games ofr this year is going to be Crysis from Electronic Arts. As it is going to be one of the biggest laucnhes of the year, we already see the sound of big marketing working up with a large number of distilled information bits sent…
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LCD display: Repair dead pixels with software
The bane of LCD displays: dead pixels. It is still very uncommon to find display manufacturers who accept to provide a garantee against dead o stuck pixels on their LCD screens. Honestly, this is bordering on abuse knowing that the main objective of the screen is to display several hundred thousands of pixels: Dead pixels…