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Category: Science & Geeks

  • Free download of Word

    Since this question is regularly asked here in the recent weeks, I decided to answer directly. Easier than pirating Microsoft Word, nicer, faster than finding a hacked warez version without a virus, a Trojan horse, you just have to go to OpenOffice. I can’t repeat it enough: Forget Microsoft Office, don’t try to copy this…

  • Nikon D200

    Nikon D200

    The Nikon D200 seems to be the real high-end prosumer digital camera from Nikon. Different reviews for this fabulous Nikon camera: DPReview Imaging Resources Digital Outback Photo Definitely a nice body for an enthusiast. Maybe a bit on the heavy side (830g instead of the already heavy 760g of my own Konica-Minolta Dynax 7D), it…

  • Canon switches to pigments

    Epson will have to worry about this. While during a long time Epson was the undeniable champion of ink jet print longevity thanks to its unique pigment-based inks (inherently more durable than dye-based color inks of its competitors), Canon just announced a new professional ink jet printer, the iPF 5000 (MSRP $1,945) using a 12-color…

  • Masai Mara – landscapes 2

    Masai Mara – landscapes 2

    Even more landscape images from the Masai Mara National Park in Kenya (Spring 2006). Savanah after the rain

  • Minolta prices going down – Time to buy?

    Minolta prices going down – Time to buy?

    After the announcement of the demise of Konica-Minolta, and its replacement with Sony (actually in place now that April came), I asked myself what is now the consequence of this on camera prices.

  • Nikon better operating profits

    Nikon better operating profits

    This is what the firm with the yellow logo announced. And this is all coming from the digital camera business that is being even better than expected. This would be the first confirmation that moving out of the analog camera business was the thing to do (from the point of view of the company –…

  • P2P with your buddies (and without the cops)

    This is the promise of a product that is not even available yet but could well behave like a FireFox plug-in (an extension to the famous Internet browser). Developed in Prague, it is becoming the center of all talks while it is not even available to download: AllPeers. As a matter of fact, this is…

  • RoHS and WEEE, the new game in the electronics industry

    Ok! Those do not look like nice words. But the European industry is starting to consider very seriously the consequences of these. They represent two European Directives intending to reduce very significantly the toxic waste and the use of hasardous materials in the electrical and electronic products (this is so wide a scope that a…

  • WiMax now!

    At least, this is the offer that just fell on the French public from Free.fr (they had shocked the competition just a few days ago by announcing that in the hot advertisment competition to replace the national telephone directory number with dozens of privately owned operations, they would open a free 118.818 number killing all…