Category: Science & Geeks
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First Sony Alpha
Norvegians from Digit.no show what appears to be the first sighting of a Digital Single Lens Reflex camera Alpha from Sony. Probably a replacement for the Dynax/Maxxum 5D. http://www.digit.no/wip4/detail.epl?id=91529
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How to Create RSS feeds with Dreamweaver
Maybe like me some time ago you think about taking advantage of some of the blog techiques without using the actual blog tools (I finally jumped into WordPress to ease my life as you can see). In this case, you will certainly be interested in producing RSS feeds (if you don’t know what i’m speaking…
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DRM techniques battling for your computer
The small world of technical solutions to protect the copyrights starts seeing the same issues as the software industry observed fifteen years ago when trying solutions for software copy protection. For example, we start seeing cases where two DRM solutions (Digital Rights Management) cannot live simultaneously on the same computer. This wasn’t enough that you…
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Digital Artifacts – removing digital noise the easy way
The Luminous Landscape is a great web site with a lot of information on digital photography, excellent photos and nice reviews of related hardware and software. I singled out a nice little article about what they call “the colour gremlins” (More commonly, this is known as digital sensor noise). What is interesting is that they…
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Writing Adobe PDF documents
Even if I am still a continuous partisan of writing PDF files directly from OpenOffice (my prefered free replacement for Microsoft Office), I found a web page with information about how to produce directly PDF files from applications which do not know how to make them (contrary to the native feature of OpenOffice). Loose wire.
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Internationale Zurich Gruppe
Did you notice this company? Probably not. This is the latest in a long list of stock trading companies that called me from overseas trying to sell me stocks (in this case, they start with Quantum, a company offering battery and battery management solutions – actually a good company). What is funny about it is…
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BEFSX41 – The DNS proxy works well
Good news: Even if this is not plainly written in the documentation of this fine little Ethernet router from Linksys, the BEFSX41 is fully able to operate as a DNS proxy. You just have to: Use DHCP on the WAN side (on the side of your Internet Service Provider). Configure your machines (Windows, Linux, MacOs)…
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Inkjet inks – Pigment or dye-based? A technical comparison
When looking into the details, you notice that the inks used for our inkjet printers are quite different from one brand to the next or from one reference to the next. Let’s check what the competing technologies are and the impact it may have on us photo users.
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Buffalo colourful airstrip
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