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  • 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.

  • Native HDCP at nVidia and ATI

    Those hoping that the future graphic cards supporting HD-TV (High Definition TV) and being compliant with the HDCP encryption standard would stay easy-to-hack will have to forget about their dreams. Just one after the other, nVidia and ATI announced that they would not stay long with the graphic chipset + HDCP chipset solutions of today…

  • OpenOffice nearly ready for Mac OS-X

    We just learned that the OpenOffice development team will show its desktop software suite running on Mac OS-X in the upcoming Apple Expo (next month in Paris). Welcome to the Mac lovers in the world of free Word, Excel and PowerPoint (we remember that Microsoft Office is seriously abandonned on the Mac nowadays).