Category: Science & Geeks
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The fastest Flash memory card
This is the wet dream of all serious user of digital photography cameras (or similar mobiel devices for digital music, portable movies, portable video game consoles). But it is very difficult to find a real comparison with real products. Well! This is what the excellent Dyxum.com web site offers in an extensive comparison of Compact…
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Sony Alpha A100, first pictures
Polish magazine Fotopolis (www.fotopolis.pl) just published some images taken with the new Sony Alpha DSLR A100. They give a very first impression of the image quality of the camera. Essentially, it is impossible to know the exact state of the camera and its embedded software may not be the final version. But the limited quality…
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Pegasus mail upgraded to French and German
As my long-time readers know, Pegasus mail is my prefered email software. It’s free, it’s powerful, it’s nearly insensitive to security issues (partly because it does not have all the bells and whistles of others like Outlook Express), it’s for Windows. Two important news about Pegasus mail: Pegasus mail goes to v4.31 (with new improved…
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Sony Alpha A100; The show must go on
After the first leaked informations, most of the serious web sites around are presenting today the news of the day: Sony Alpha A100 becomes the first photo camera to enter the field of digital single lens reflex (D-SLR or DLSR) for Sony after the demise of Konica-Minolta a few months ago. To know it all…
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No PDF for MS-Office
Adobe is trying hard to avoid having Microsoft include a PDF generator in its upcoming Microsoft Office newest desktop suite. They decided that this would be too much a menace against their business model and so told Microsoft that they would fight up to a judge if they tried to put PDF in MS-Office. In…
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Chernobyl caused by a video game
During a suprise check at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant, inspectors found a guard so deeply engrossed in his video game on a portable console that he did not see them come (and failed to answer to a security-related radio check call). Of course, the control ends in bad result (it was not…
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WMD better than JPEG?
It is quite hard to tell but, according to Microsoft, the JPEG file format needed a good lifting or – better – its complete replacement with a new one. So, Vista will recognize the new Windows Media Photo format. They promise smaller files with less visual defects/artifacts. But nothing is said about the actual support…
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404 Random page found
I have been correcting an old need for this web site. There was no page to handle the case where you click on a link to a non-existent page. Now, if you go to a non-existent page you will be greeted with some random message. I hope you’ll appreciate the kind of humour.
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AMD: 300mm and cycles
In the recent months, the stage where we observe the battle of the titans of PC microprocessors (Intel and AMD) was not really shaken by the thunder of news or the tremors of falling prices, like in some other times. You may know it or not, but there are major cycles in this industry and…