Category: Science & Geeks
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85 millions
This is the sheer number of web sites as counted in the beginning of June by Netcraft. Do you remember the time when Altavista was proud to have a search base of 10 millions pages? The web is young and still growing fast.
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Beware: Price war ahead
It’s going to be a nice time for you all ready to buy a new computer (or a new CPU processor). It seems that Intel and AMD, out of ideas to compete directly, are preparing a nice little price war. According to Bloomberg, Intel started it with an upcoming price cut that could reduce the…
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GBuy, new Google weapon against PayPal
28th June, Google will initiate the operation of GBuy. There was a persistent rumour of the interest of Google to go foray into the PayPal market. It seems that GBuy will be a new payment system (exactly like PayPal from eBay), but it will also be connected to the global search engine. This could give…
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Your own map
Didn’t you already need to write a map for a few friends that you invited to your home or some even less obvious location? This is a little nightmare to do it by yourself. You probably went to one of the mapping web sites (Mappy.com, for example), you printed, cut-n-paste, etc. This is over! Your…
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Large meteorite hits northern Norway
“A brilliant flash of light in the sky, and this became a light with a tail of smoke”. That’s the decription given by a farmer who happens to have witnessed the fall of the largest meteorite in Norway’s recent history. It hit the ground on a mountainside in Reisadalenon the 7th of June. An astronomer…
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Full frame 24×36 digital sensor
Canon shocked the high-end digital camera world when announcing the Canon EOS 5D with its 12 M-pixel sensor of a full 24*36mm (also known as full frame). You lost the 1.5 conversion factor on the focal lenght of lenses, but the user grabbed some very neat advantages: A larger surface used to easily improve the…
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Most needed utilities
It’s been some time now that I use that surprisingly good list of utilities from BootDisk.com. I wanted to finally share it with you. Highly recommended.
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Word tip #1: Letter template
Because, despite my repeated advice of migrating from Word (still expensive at Microsoft) to OpenOffice (freely downloadable and as powerful as MS-Word), you may still be using Word, I am giving you here the business letter template that I offered yesterday for OpenOffice, but adapted to Microsoft Word. With still the same advantages: There is…
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OpenOffice tip #1: Letter template
Nearly all users of a word processor have been faced with this minor annoyance of writing a passable commercial-like letter. But, worse, at the time of filling the envelope, you have to fight with a sheet of paper that would not accept to align itself with the address window of the envelope. Today, I am…