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  • CPU performance decoding HD-video

    CPU performance decoding HD-video

    ArsTechnica has a very interesting article showing how nVidia and AMD-ATI show different performance while decoding High-Def video. There is no clear winner. It all depends on the type of video applied.

  • Make Windows XP look like Vista

    Make Windows XP look like Vista

    You do not want to sell your first-born child to buy Windows Vista, but you’d like to be able to brag about your having all the bells and whistles of Vista. Just keep Windows XP and install the Vista Transformation Pack 8, your PC will look a little like this:

  • Phenom, incompatible with existing AM2 motherboards?

    This is more or less what has to be concluded from reading the articles currently published about the compatibility (more supposed than real) between the new AMD 4-core processor and the existing AM2-socket motherboards. But it seems that AMD will have to be a little more patient. This is not a very good omen for…

  • Chinese prefer business to sex

    We already knew that Englishmen prefer porn to sex. Now, this is the turn of Chinese to fail getting interested in one of the human activities we thought was really attractive This is the conclusion of one comparison study from Google. They observe that their Chinese search engine is used for terms like names of…

  • Top 10 file software (Windows)

    List of the best file-oriented utilities for Windows: Restoration Double-Killer / Easy Duplicate Finder TeraCopy WinMerge Foldershare / SyncToy DriveImage XML (already presented here w few weeks ago) WinDirStat Xplorer² SyncBack TrueCrypt According to LifeHacker.

  • Canon camera museum

    Canon has been a major manufacturer of photo cameras for many years. Is this worth a museum? I don’t know but they decided that they could not wait for somebody else to build it. Canon opened an online virtual museum of its cameras: the Canon camera museum. The Camera Hall is a database of historical…

  • Les Roses – Redouté

    Les Roses – Redouté

    Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759-1840) is certianly considered the greatest drawing artist of plants and flowers. Many copies of his paintings and engravings are available on line. Why not start with his page on BiblioOdyssey?

  • VIA ends its forays into CPU chipsets

    According to Apply Daily (via Digitimes), VIA reorganized itself with the consequence that they will concentrate on their own line of CPUs and supporting chipsets, leaving the chipsets for Intel and AMD aside.

  • Screenshots for S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Clear sky

    After S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Shadow of Chernobyl in 2007, you will see S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Clear sky in 2008. This new opus of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. saga will retain the advantages of the original FPS game: Great playability, exceptional environment, free wandering in acres and acres of open terrain. There is now a gallery of screenshots for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.…