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Author: Yves Roumazeilles

  • Fighting blur: Two guns at Sony

    This is the right combination against blurry images at Sony: With the new DSC-T30, Sony brings both optical stabilisation and a button to press to reach high sensitivity. Two aces to allow Joe Average to take neat snapshots.

  • Valve cuts its games in episodes

    Valve, the famous producer of the Half Life video game, decided to try transforming distribution of video game software. As they announced, the next launches will see short episodes (shorter than the original successful game) aimed at a public ready for paying less but more often. It seems to be a way to avoid the…

  • AdSense, delay to sense

    Your blog contains AdSense ad banners and you are wondering whether they are always taking into account the real content of the articles you publish. A few remarks from a mere user.

  • This Boring Headline Is Written for Google

    That is exactly the title of an article just published in the New York Times and explaining how online publication had to adapt itself to search engines, their literal-minded approach to text and the impossibility to use nice, intelligent, witty, humorous, sarcastic titles.

  • RIAA says “Jail the ghost!”

    Gertrude Walton is probably not the last person and certainly not the first to be facing the wrath of the RIAA while this association fights against music pirates. She is a bit unusual in the sense that she is an 80-year old Granny and stands accused of downloading 700 songs off peer-to-peer (P2P) networks under…

  • Portable phones allowed in plane! more or less…

    It’s been years that flight attendants repeat to bored flight passengers that portable phones should be switched off during the flight because they may interfere with navigation equipment of the plane. Also, it’s been years that Boeing and Airbus tested this hypothesis and found no risk at all. But nobody wants to take the risk…

  • Inkjet paper weight: Hand, weight, etc.

    All inkjet papers were not born equal. Not even all papers. Far from the surface quality, one of the characteristics easiest to evaluate and most important to appreciate a good paper is its weight. But quite often you will hear paper industry specialists and printing experts speaking about the paper’s hand. What is this and…

  • Sony, it will be alpha

    Sony just announced the name of its new/future range of Digital Single Lens Reflex (D-SLR) cameras. This is a minor surprise since they reuse the brand previously used by Minolta and Konica-Minolta in the Japanese market: Alpha. Minolta used Maxxum in the US and Dynax in Europe, but Sony seems to be shooting for one…

  • RawDrop – optimal configuration for nice photos

    RawDrop – optimal configuration for nice photos

    It’s bit quite a bit of time that I repeat I use RawDrop as my prefered tool to convert RAW images produced by my Dynax 7D into TIF files. But some wondered what configuration I use. There are not a zillion options in RawDrop, but to obtain a clean result, it’s easier not to fool…