Category: Science & Geeks
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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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Man fined for ‘pregnancy’
A man living near Johannesburg (South Africa) was recently fined by a court for a bizarre reason: He stole a pregnancy certificate and forged it to get seven days off work. Apparently, he did not think that somebody would notice the ‘difficulty’ a man would have to become pregnant. Source: BBC news.
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Firefox 3 already
Firefox 2 is hardly out that developers are already working hard on the new version 3 as shown by the apparition of an alpha version on the FTP server. Some visible improvements: Bookmarks will be replaced with “places” that will end in a left-side menu (an innovation to be tested). Tabs will be easier to…
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BitTorrent purchases uTorrent
BitTorrent, the leader and creator of the P2P technology that is driving most of the video and large-file peer-to-peer exchanges just announced that they bought µTorrent (micro-Torrent or uTorrent), the company providing the smallest, lightest (and maybe, fastest) BitTorrent client. Apparently, they intend to re-inforce their presence, possibly in preparation of an extension of the…
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Bugs shot in macrophoto
Here is a photo gallery with nice macro photos of little critters and bugs. Some of them look like actual ETs from StarShip Troopers. I do think that these are really great shots from Igor Siwanowicz.