Category: Science & Geeks
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SD14: Sigma tells it all about its new DSLR (like the competition)
Really! The way it goes in marketing departments all over the world, the Photokina in Cologne next month (from September 26th, 2006) will have nothing left to announce. At least, on the segment of Digital Single Lens Reflex (D-SLR) cameras. All the news will be out: Sony launched its Alpha A100 in July, Nikon just…
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RyanAir: Fun solution to better plane security
Following the recent increase of security measures in planes and airports, RyanAir low-cost airlines are really fed up with the accumulation of silly measures intended to detect would-be terrorists attempting to board planes. Check-in is longer than ever and constraints on what passengers can bring in hand-luggage are becoming frankly ridiculous. Why not go right…
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K9 efficiency against SPAM
A free software allows you to efficiently filter SPAM out of your mail box. I measured precisely its efficiency.
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Perfect PC
Ars Technica (one of my prefered web sites about PC computer technology) just published its perfect PC recommendation article. Obviously, perfection changes according to the price you are ready to pay for it. So, there are three different levels of PC perfection and each is described down to the finest details (what motherboard, what CPU,…
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6 steps to a web site
If you want to publish a web site, you may be interested by the following series of articles I wrote about how to quickly create a full-fledged web site using WordPress. Get a domain name Rent web publishing space Connect web space and domain name Configure the Apache server Install WordPress Call the search engines…
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SPF-compliant DNS declaration
For the roumazeilles.net domain, I published an SPF-compliant declaration (in the DNS Bind zone file). roumazeilles.net. IN TXT “v=spf1 ip4:81.57.246.28 a mx ptr include:free.fr include:magic.fr -all”
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Step 6: Call the search engines
You certainly heard that the magic key to Internet audience for your web site is the visibility in Search Engines. Unfortunately, this is only a small part of the landscape. Out of the small circles of Internet marketing honchos, there are many false stories and true rumours. If you want to keep your mind clear,…
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Several software magnifiers
For various reasons, I have been looking for software tools able to magnify an image or a zone of the computer screen. Here are some of the links I collected this way: The Microsoft PowerToys include a Windows XP screen magnifier that can be installed in the taskbar. ZoomAView – The Computer Magnifier!: A powerful,…
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PD70x: Possibly a problem with dirty contacts
You learned a few days ago that I had some problems with random errors in my Compact Drive PD70x flash card portable hard disk reader. It seems (I’m not 100% sure) that it came from dirty contacts between the hard disk drive and the electronics. I actually cleaned quickly those (thanks to Compact Drive for…