Author: Yves Roumazeilles
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Photoshop supports HD Photo format
HD Photo, this is th new name of the image format from Microsoft that they want to replace JPEG, PNG, Raw and GIF. It was previously known -at launch time- as Windows Media Photo and it is now fully integrated into Windows Vista. Adobe Photoshop will support this format through a plugin to donwload from…
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Spring time on Mars
To celebrate Spring 2007, here is a small video gem: http://www.youtube.com/v/yjiGH9QNiU0
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STALKER has arrived
Here it comes! I had told you about it. Now many users on the web are tlking about this FPS game, Stalker – Shadow of Chernobyl. Some examples: PC IGN (English) GamePro (English) GameSpot (English) Bit-Tech.net (English) Inpact virtuel (French) Globaly, the opinions are VERY favorable on most aspects (playability, quality of images, gamer immersion,…
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Fortran designer dies at 82
John W. Backus, designer of the Fortran computer language just died at 82. The software developers from the oldies will remember this language that revolutionized scientific calculus and programming, even if it is now pushed back (not unused, but less used). Some (even more exceptional) will remember his participation to language theory with the Backus-Naur…
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Canon wants more than 50%
The chariman and CEO of Canon Taiwan (Satoshi Yahata) told yesterday in a press conference that his company had the firm intention to take more than 50% market share for the Taiwan’s digitial SLR market. Everything points to this being also the same for the worldwide market where Canon no longer wants to be perceived…
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Sensor cleaning, the simple way
It seems that despite all my lack of bad experience in this context, many digital photographers (specifically using Digital SLR cameras) have been suffering from dirt sticking to their camera’s sensor. This produces dark blotches on clear zones of the image (like in the light blue sky of your landscapes). Today, I found a nice…
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DRM kills business
It’s all over the place today: German MusicLoad revealed that 75% of its customer support calls were about complaining around the problems created by the inclusion of Digital Rigths Management (DRM) in the MP3 files they sell. Coming from a company that is living from the sale of legal MP3s, it has a lot of…
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Spammers hit by the SEC
You certainly noticed in the flood of SPAMs that is probably arriving in your mailbox as in mine, that many of them are promoting stock exchange securities -that you usually do not know about. This is generally part of an elaborate (but old) scam known as ‘pump and dump‘. It consists in buying shares of…