Author: Yves Roumazeilles
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NeoOffice: OpenOffice for Mac
NeoOffice is a OS X port of OppenOffice.org by a group of developers who have thought from the beginning that the Main OO.o team was taking the wrong tack in offering X-11 support on the Mac. Aqua-native, includes both PPC and Intel binaries, allows Spotlight to index both content and metadata of OpenOffice and OpenDocument…
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A Vista workaround for PDF Creator
As I reported previously PDF Creator, the free PDF producing tool, happens not to work for Vista. However, it has been published a possible workaround (unconfirmed officially) to this problem. Install pdfcreator in ‘server mode’ as ‘xp compatible’ and then tell it to ‘render output on client’ machine, and set the sharing to the default…
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Safari and sensor dust – the converter solution
While we are talking about dust and cleaning the sensor of the Digital Single Lens Reflex (DSLR) cameras, I wanted to show a slightly different direction, some sort of think-different solution that can be used in some cases. I intend to leave soon for a safari in South Africa. My Konica-Minolta Dynax/Maxxum 7D will come…
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Lighted bras, a new fashion?
We previously had some fun with Japanese bras convertible into a small bag in 10 seconds. We were more or less assuming that weird ideas like that had to come from Japan. But the virus has spread much more than initially expected. Here is a company that sells bras that need electrical power because they…
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Saturn and its satellites, latest film stars of the solar system
NASA astronomers conscientiously collected hundreds of photos taken by the wide angle camera and the planetary camera of the Hubble telescope in 1995 and 2003. By filling the gaps with the help of a computer program, they produced an amazing video where we clearly see the cloudy planet and several of its satellites moving in…
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U of Chicago blows a white dwarf star in 3D
For the first time, researchers simulated the explosion of a white dwarf. White dwarf stars pack one and a half times the mass of the sun into an object the size of Earth. When they burn out, the ensuing explosion produces a type of supernova that astrophysicists believe manufactures most of the iron in the…
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EU tax on digital photo cameras?
According to Digitimes listening to Taiwan industry sources, Europe would be about to introduce a customs tax of 4.9% specifically for digital cameras including the ability to record videos. A small price increase to expect in June or July this year on imported cameras (Sony, Canon, Nikon, Olympus, etc.) but it would not involve Digital…
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Collector of antique toy cars
After the First World War, the toy cars started to be democratized. This led to today’s collectors for these objects intensely linked to a past time when game consoles did not yet replace the muscular energy used by the young driver to propulse his car. The Voiture à Pédales web site is a unique location…
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The best sensor cleaning for Digital SLR cameras
Those who are lucky to read Chasseur d’Images, French photo newspaper (on real pulp paper), European leader on this market, will remember that they just read a comparison of the sensor cleaning of Olympus E-series, Sony Alpha-100, Canon 400D, Pentax K10D and K100D. Important conclusion: It’s better than nothing, but there’s only the Olympus able…