Author: Yves Roumazeilles
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Byte is back
All old readers of this legendary American publication (which was the world’s most read computer magazine during years before falling down into a more common on line edition) will be happy to hear that CMP publications (the publisher) decided to accept Byte.com readership without subscription. Champagne to celebrate the return to public life of Jerry…
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Paris by night
If you want to see photos of Paris by night, I have collected some of them on a specific page of my web site. They have been there or quite some time, but some people seems to have difficulty finding them again. So let’s help. Eiffel tower – Tour Eiffel This is the mere symbol…
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85 millions
This is the sheer number of web sites as counted in the beginning of June by Netcraft. Do you remember the time when Altavista was proud to have a search base of 10 millions pages? The web is young and still growing fast.
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Beware: Price war ahead
It’s going to be a nice time for you all ready to buy a new computer (or a new CPU processor). It seems that Intel and AMD, out of ideas to compete directly, are preparing a nice little price war. According to Bloomberg, Intel started it with an upcoming price cut that could reduce the…
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GBuy, new Google weapon against PayPal
28th June, Google will initiate the operation of GBuy. There was a persistent rumour of the interest of Google to go foray into the PayPal market. It seems that GBuy will be a new payment system (exactly like PayPal from eBay), but it will also be connected to the global search engine. This could give…
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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…