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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,…

  • 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…

  • Social bookmarking on Roumazeilles.net

    According to Wikipedia, social bookmarking is “an increasingly popular way to locate, classify, rank, and share Internet resources through the use of shared lists of user-created Internet bookmark lists“. Popular bookmarking services include del.icio.us, digg.com, and YahooMyWeb. If you have signed up for any of these services, you can bookmark articles on Roumazeilles.net for your…

  • CPU: Performance/Cost ratio

    CPU: Performance/Cost ratio

    Thanks to TG daily (Tom’s Hardware) we have a clearer view of the performance/cost ratio of dual-core processors these days (after the arrival of the cost cuts both from AMD and Intel). Click on the thumbnailto open a larger graph. Things get clearer now. It becomes quite obvious that the old Pentium EE is completely…

  • Canon new DSLR may be named 400D

    According to Engadget, the new Canon Digital SLR camera may have the name of 400D (instead of previously reported 370D) and it may include an ultrasonic sensor cleaning (the new fad these days).

  • Sony leaves LCD market

    After announcing its intention to leave the market of plasma screens, Sony would be about to do the same with the LCD monitors. Being only the 10th world manufacturer of such screens on a world market terribly competitive (margins are plumetting) and whose growth is decreasing rapidly after two good years, Sony would be preparing…

  • Collateral damage from SPAM

    Back from my Summer vacations, a little surprise was waiting for me with more than 20,000 messages stored in the verious mailboxes I use daily. First, I thought that I had been receiving a mere flood of SPAM (I get easily 300 SPAMs a day, so in a period of 10 days it could have…

  • HP Photosmart Pro B9180: Revolution or not?

    This is the question I started asking myself after seeing the cover of the July-August 2006 issue of Chasseur d’Images (” HP révolutionnne le A3 “, “HP revolutions A3”) then reading the corresponding article.

  • Step 5: Install WordPress

    Now, if you want to fulfill the next step of this “creating a new web site” tutorial, you have to decide which software to use to write your web site. The choice is quite wide, but I will describe two main options: Doing it all by yourself Using WordPress