Author: Yves Roumazeilles
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No plastics for a better environnement
The proposal is a pragmatic one: Let’s try to reduce the use of plastics in our everyday life. It may not solve all the problems but it can reduce one. A To-Do List For Reducing Plastic. [Deep Sea News] No plastic grocery bags No plastic “poop” bags No plastic trash bags No plastic produce bags…
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Inkjet impressions will be dead soon
Previous articles about inkjet printing 2005 highlights about inkjet printing (including prints longevity). Canada’s National Archive experts are worried that we don’t have enough knowledge about how inkjet prints age. They fear that most of them will die early because the dried ink is much more exposed to external stresses than the pigments of traditional…
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Nikon D300, Canon 40D – No news!
All is calm on the front of rumors about the future new digital cameras. The beginning of the year 2007 was rich in ideas about the replacement of Nikon D200 and Canon 30D, but there is only now beginning-of-Summer rebates and promotions (rather a classic move for the photo market) to help people’s imaginations. It…
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Roumazeilles.net in your email
To all the readers that are interested in keeping in touch with us without even the effort to visit us every day, there are two options that you should keep in mind: Using the RSS feed for the web site. You need to have an RSS reader (one is included in recent versions of Safari,…
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Color-blindness and software specification
Do you happen to know that 5% of all male population is actually affected by some form of color-blindness (females are much less prone to it). It means that plenty of activities that tend to rely on color identification by the user is significantly flawed for about 2-3% of the user population. This can become…
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Natural selection in the act – Life is hard in the bush
If you want to survive, live long and have siblings, you need to eat. This is not going to happen if your food is stolen: Link To be clear, I did not see that when in South Africa two months ago, but I would have loved to be there shooting images… And I can tell…
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FreeMeter: to keep tabs on your connection
FreeMeter is a small Windows utility displaying a graph showing your network/Internet usage. Simply, tidy, you can try it.
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Intel/AMD, at war again
July will be another month of price wars for Intel and AMD (after a very bumpy April). Both announced that they would shoot prices down once again in July trying to grab a larger market share (for AMD) or trying to asphyxiate the competition (for Intel). AMD will start at the beginning of the month.…
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Rotate
It is time again to loose time on a Friday afternoon. Today, you must click on parts on the image to rotate them in order to rebuild the original image.