Category: Science & Geeks

  • 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

  • Getting rid of camera wobble: Not yet

    Every photographer (amateur, enthusiast or pro) knows that getting rid of blurred images is a major issue for all. Thanks to CNet, I recently learned that the camera wobble is now over! Scientists from the MIT and the University of Toronto worked on the issue and developped a very powerful (as far as it is…

  • PD70X: An incident?

    As I still advise to buy a CompactDrive PD70X to empty your Flash memory cards, I had to inform you about a weird little series of incidents I have had these recent days with my own device. To my knowledge, the Compact Drive PD70x is only available from MacWay (in France) at a reasonable cost…