Author: Yves Roumazeilles
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Free online games
RED is one slightly addictive video game that you can play freely online. But AmorGames has other Flash-based games to fill the long Winter night.
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Hoya absorbs Pentax
Hoya and Pentax just announced that they reached an agreement on a merger between both companies that would result in the absorption of Pentax into the major glass manufacturer. Pentax shares will be exchanged against Hoya shares; Management will be shared between top brass coming from both companies. The good news is that, even if…
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A look at the N|vu HTML/CSS editor
N|vu is a web development application with a WYSIWYG interface that is aimed to be user friendly, easy and powerful. It is supposed to be a serious competition for major commercial tools like DreamWeaver (N|vu is a free download making it a good contender). Unfortunately, since it comes from the Open Source world, N|vu tends…
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Scientific experiments on video
One of the most complicated problems of Science is to reach full reproductibility of experiments. Even more, it is merely an issue of knowing how one experiment was done. It is in this context of research and education that the JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments) web site was created to present videos of some scientific…
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iPhone launched… by Linksys, not Apple
Already a great marketing success. While everybody was expecting the announcement of a new VoIP (Voice-over-IP) phone set by Apple under the name of iPhone, there is a product launched under that exact name by… Linksys. The networking company is stealing all the publicity from Apple in a coup. But it is not only a…
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Metro stations, everywhere
If you need a map for a metropolitan railway (or underground tube, or metro, or most tramways), there is only one place to go: UrbanRail.net has all kinds of public transport maps All over the world. And some news about public transportation.
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FrontPage is dead, long live FrontPage!
finally, it’s happened! Microsoft announced officially the end of FrontPage (Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 and Microsoft Expression Web Designer will come in Spring to replace it). As a matter of fact, FrontPage did not really succeed in penetrating the pro market for web designers. Its utterly simplistic approach to web design was obviously far…
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Network traffic: BitMeter to replace DU-meter
I have been testing DU-meter as a way to display the network traffic around my computer. It shows a nice little graph to present the network traffic in a very usable/understandable way like here: This graph is updated in real-time which means that color bar allow you to recognize incoming or outgoing traffic, but this…
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Report An Unauthorised Firm
Have you been contacted by an unauthorised overseas firm trying to sell or buy stock shares (in the United Kingdom)? The FSA would like to hear from you. The Financial Services Authority (FSA) is an independent non-governmental body, given statutory powers by the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 to regulate the stock market and…