Author: Yves Roumazeilles
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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…
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A selection of the best bourbon whiskies
I admit easily having a sweet tooth for single malt whisky (is this really possible?) But it is somewhat worth looking to the American side in order to find a good equivalent: Bourbon. But which one should I choose? The solution: The Best Bourbon Whiskey (from BlueKitchen) is a guide among the best Bourbon alcohols.…
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Air traffic controllers make jokes too
Air traffic controllers have fun too and some of it is collected at this link.
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Are lions really dangerous?
Sure they are! But Kevin Richardson, animal behaviourist, has learned how to go freely with them. He found that behaving submissively could ensure that the lions would accept him in their group. Source: DailyMail.
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Summer PC: Installation
Gran Turismo: An enthusiast’s PC geared towards PC gaming Easy Penny: A very reasonable PC able to sustain a few years without letting its owner down Too many web sites offer you a list of PC configurations that they pretend ideal. but they do not bother trying to really set them up. This is not…
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Welcome to Nokia phone users
My statistics show that the users of the Nokia mobile phones are starting to represent a signifcant portion of the visitors of this web site (10th or 11th most seen browser on this site). Feel free to comment if you have difficulties or if you want to offer ideas of possible improvements.
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90+ online photography tools and resources
Mashable published a list of Internet resources particularyl useful to photographers. The list is organised aroudn the following categories: Online photo Editors – Editeurs de photo en ligne Photo sharing – Partage de photographies Free photo hosting – Hébergement gratuit de photographies en ligne Photography blogs – Blogs photographiques Mashups – Combinaisons Mobile Photo mixing…