Author: Yves Roumazeilles
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Biomechanical sculptures
Pierre Matter is a sculptor whose production should attract the eye of most of the visitors. You can find more at: Galerie Opera, The art of Pierre Matter on Knutz.net.
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Wallhogs: Big prints for your walls
Essentially, Wallhogs is accepting your picture files to prepare special prints of large size: Decals, that would be nice to stick on a wall or on your fridge Posters (you know that don’t you?) Canvas prints, that would mimic a canvas paint
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AMD Radeon HD 2900 XT: It’s ready now!
With about eight months of delays, AMD finally launches its new high-level grpahics card. Curiously, it is not set to beat all performance records but to fight against the GeForce 8800 GTS of nVidia (both are sold around 399$). Nonetheless, it will be necessary to wait for the future tests. As a matter of fact,…
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Amazon buys DPReview
DPReview has always been a very interesting photo-related web site with a vibrant community of forum users. Today, they announce that they have been bought by Amazon.com. It came to me as a surprise that a retailer like Amazon would be interested in such a web site, but it probably proves that the giant retail…
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The lightest DIY tripod
Most photographers know about the tripods used to stabilize a camera. Some use a monopod that is lighter even if a little less stable. But, here is an extreemely simple tripod replacement just made out of string. String Tripod.
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AllAboutJazz.com is DRM free
This is free advertising for a major launch of a DRM-free online store: AllAboutJazz.com sells jazz music online without any DRM included.
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Sony: Official photo of new cameras and lenses
We are still waiting for the newest announcements from Sony photo departement. However, PhotoClubAlpha.com got an official image of the 2007-8 line up. We see everything that has been shown in the beginning of the year, but in a much cleared view. Click to enlarge For people interested in the longer focals, the most attracting…
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Panoramic world record: Biggest panoramic photo is 13 Giga-bytes
Did you think that you needed a little more space to store the RAW digital files of your digital camera? Think again. Photographer Gérard Maynard and French panorama software company Kolor created a panoramic digital photograph of no less that 13 Giga-bytes. 2045 photos stitched together using Kolor’s AutoPano Pro software. Gérard Maynard used a…
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PC price trends
Currently, I am wandering a lot around the the web sites for OEM suppliers to manufacturers of micro-computers. This leads me to observe some apparent trends (at least in the opinions of the experts) that could be of interest if you intend to buy PC hardware in the coming months. DRAM memory: All the observers…