Category: Science & Geeks
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Win98 is really dead!
After long years of operation, Windows 98 is officially dead today (11 July 2006). As a matter of fact, this is not news and Microsoft was slowly reducing the efforts and even in June they refused to patch a security issue arguing that it would be too much effort (and that they couldn’t care less).…
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Crysis: FarCRY, the FPS was only the beginning
FarCry, one of the best First Person Shooter video game (a game in the old shoot-them-all category of Doom or Quake), spent a lot of time on my PC. I played with it at day and at night. But Crytek, the game authoring company, is preparing Crysis as a follow-up, sequel, or renewed FPS video…
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Free Science Fiction in MP3
Science fiction author James Patrick Kelly podcasts some of his works as MP3s. His stories were published in famous SciFi magazines like Asimov’s Science Fiction and The Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy.
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Why you must not install MS Office 2007 beta
I think this would be a bad idea. This is why.
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They eat too much
American people eat a lot. Some eat too much. A few are proud to show you how much they can eat.
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No DirectX 10 for XP – Go Vista
News from The Inquirer: Vista will be the only Operating System supporting DirectX 10 (the latest version of the video-game-oriented graphic support software). This is bad news for those intending to keep WindowsXP and willing to use the latest video games and entertainment software in 2007. You will have to switch to Vista, like it…
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Gigantic panoramic windshield
Even better than old-timers panoramic windshields, better than the glass roof of Peugeot or Citroën cars, here comes the gigantic panoramic windshield at GM-Opel-Vauxhall. The new Astra GTC will have a windshield going up to a point far behind the normal position of the driver and allows the Summer sun to enter easily the interior…
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RawShooter bought by Adobe
Market concentration ahead! While Adobe just announced buying Pixmantec the designer of RawShooter, a very good utilities program to handle RAW files (digital photography images, uncompressed, straigth out of the digital camera sensor). For me, this looks like food for thought. Indeed, while buying a product (partially) in competition with its own, Adobe is actively…
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Search in blogs
I am not sure this is a priority for the normal Internet web user, but blog authors may appreciate the recognition brought by Google with its specialized search engine for blogs: Google Blog Search.