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Author: Yves Roumazeilles

  • HP Photosmart Pro B9180: Revolution or not?

    This is the question I started asking myself after seeing the cover of the July-August 2006 issue of Chasseur d’Images (” HP révolutionnne le A3 “, “HP revolutions A3”) then reading the corresponding article.

  • Step 5: Install WordPress

    Now, if you want to fulfill the next step of this “creating a new web site” tutorial, you have to decide which software to use to write your web site. The choice is quite wide, but I will describe two main options: Doing it all by yourself Using WordPress

  • Getting rid of camera wobble: Not yet

    Every photographer (amateur, enthusiast or pro) knows that getting rid of blurred images is a major issue for all. Thanks to CNet, I recently learned that the camera wobble is now over! Scientists from the MIT and the University of Toronto worked on the issue and developped a very powerful (as far as it is…

  • PD70X: An incident?

    As I still advise to buy a CompactDrive PD70X to empty your Flash memory cards, I had to inform you about a weird little series of incidents I have had these recent days with my own device. To my knowledge, the Compact Drive PD70x is only available from MacWay (in France) at a reasonable cost…

  • Top 6 features of the new D-SLR cameras

    In September, for the Photokina, we will see a wave of new digital cameras rushing onto us (there is already the Alpha A100 de Sony (already here) and the Nikon D80 (just appearing)). What will be the features that will make the success or the failure of these new Digital Single Lens Reflex cameras? I…

  • The 1,000,000 Google pages meme

    A meme is a form of idea that propagates almost by itself as if it had its own life (possibly undergoing modifications and evolution). The basic principle has been first described by Richard Dawkins in his world-famous book “The selfish gene” where he draws a clear parallel between gene and meme. I had previously described…

  • Step 4: Configure the Apache server

    Oops! This one is certainly more thoroughly complex than the rest of the steps of this “creating a new web site” tutorial. More positively, usually, you do not need to take this step. In my personal case, for the creation of the Lexyk.com dictionary web site, I needed to add a small specific helper. I…

  • On the Internet, Nobody Knows You’re a Dog

    I really love this sentence that says so much about the freedom and the dangers on the Internet. The above cartoon by Peter Steiner has been reproduced from page 61 of July 5, 1993 issue of The New Yorker, (Vol.69 (LXIX) no. 20) only for academic discussion, evaluation, research and complies with the copyright law…

  • Step 3: Connect web space and domain name

    Essentially, after renting some space from your web hosting company, only this company and you know where your web site is hosted. Nobody else has this key information. Even more important, the company your hired to provide this information to the rest of the Internet (the registrar you hired to provide Domain Name Service –…