Author: Yves Roumazeilles
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The riskier photo sports
You are out of photo ideas. Here is the weidest one I could find. Good results, at your own risks.
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Your own map
Didn’t you already need to write a map for a few friends that you invited to your home or some even less obvious location? This is a little nightmare to do it by yourself. You probably went to one of the mapping web sites (Mappy.com, for example), you printed, cut-n-paste, etc. This is over! Your…
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Large meteorite hits northern Norway
“A brilliant flash of light in the sky, and this became a light with a tail of smoke”. That’s the decription given by a farmer who happens to have witnessed the fall of the largest meteorite in Norway’s recent history. It hit the ground on a mountainside in Reisadalenon the 7th of June. An astronomer…
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Full frame 24×36 digital sensor
Canon shocked the high-end digital camera world when announcing the Canon EOS 5D with its 12 M-pixel sensor of a full 24*36mm (also known as full frame). You lost the 1.5 conversion factor on the focal lenght of lenses, but the user grabbed some very neat advantages: A larger surface used to easily improve the…
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Most needed utilities
It’s been some time now that I use that surprisingly good list of utilities from BootDisk.com. I wanted to finally share it with you. Highly recommended.
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Word tip #1: Letter template
Because, despite my repeated advice of migrating from Word (still expensive at Microsoft) to OpenOffice (freely downloadable and as powerful as MS-Word), you may still be using Word, I am giving you here the business letter template that I offered yesterday for OpenOffice, but adapted to Microsoft Word. With still the same advantages: There is…
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OpenOffice tip #1: Letter template
Nearly all users of a word processor have been faced with this minor annoyance of writing a passable commercial-like letter. But, worse, at the time of filling the envelope, you have to fight with a sheet of paper that would not accept to align itself with the address window of the envelope. Today, I am…
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Steal these stock photos
Design and illustration activities often require the use of images. In that intent, photo agencies come to the rescue with their organized offer of catalogs, stocks, heaps of photographs sold for one or more uses. Unfortunately, not everybody have the financial wealth to purchase agency stock photos to illustrate a web site, a leaflet, or…
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The fastest Flash memory card
This is the wet dream of all serious user of digital photography cameras (or similar mobiel devices for digital music, portable movies, portable video game consoles). But it is very difficult to find a real comparison with real products. Well! This is what the excellent Dyxum.com web site offers in an extensive comparison of Compact…