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Category: Science & Geeks

  • One HD-TV video-projector

    This is the promise of Sony with its new VPL-VW50. It will soon be available and able to display in full glory 1080p television shows (the maximum resolution and quality of HDMI/HDCP for High Definition TV). But the real problem stays that the price will be over 6000$. I’m not yet ready to replace my…

  • Canon EOS 40D

    Here is a scoop again for digital single lens reflex cameras (D-SLR). Canon, after announcing its 400D (follower of the successful 350D) starts renovating the upper market segment. The EOS 30D seriously needed to freshen up a bit in view of the competition, this is what comes with the 40D. 10 mega-pixels (instead of 8MP)…

  • Word tip #2: Page numbering bug when printing

    On about all the versions of Microsoft Word the footers anre headers of a page can print wrongly (The footer may show either 5/1, or 5/5, instead of 5/22, for the fifth page of a 22-page document). It is a Word bug that is known on many different version of Word. Unfortunately, Microsoft did not…

  • D&D baby (is he a NPC?)

    Ron Davis has a very nice picture of a baby fully ready to play in Dungeons & Dragons (or ready to be a NPC).

  • I say NO to the leader

    We are all in a capitalistic society where commercial companies are guided by their financial interest. A company in a monopolistic position is able to freely set its prices (at least, very independently from the consumers/customers whishes and market interests). I can’t do anything about this kind of situation, but it still opens a few…

  • Free movie: His Girl Friday

    Free movie: His Girl Friday

    Download from Internet Archive Movie information from IMDB.org Some may believe that free movies and public domain films come only from low-budgets, B series (or Z series) and cheap cinematographic efforts. This is not always the case and, today, we want to stop at one movie with famous great actors and that can be easily…

  • Windows 98: Last available patches

    Windows 98: Last available patches

    With the final real actual end of Windows 98 support by Microsoft in the beginning of Summer 2006, those who are still using this Operating System (the great-grand-mother of the much more expensive Windows Vista) started worrying about how to obtain the needed software patches. For example, what would you do if, needing to re-install…

  • Vista opening sound will be compulsory

    I do not report each and every little news about the upcoming Windows XP replacement. But today, we are learning that Microsoft marketing got one weird idea. Since they want Vista to show a “common, and beautiful, face to the world”, they decided that the music/sound provided by Microsoft as an opening sound for Windows…

  • PDF Creator web site moved

    PDF Creator (the free open-source PDF production application) has moved to a new web site : PDFforge.