Category: Science & Geeks
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Dollar going low, blogger earning less
As the US dollar drops in Stock Markets, there are some unexpected victims. As many other companies whose customers pay in US dollars, many bloggers using advertising services are being paid in US dollars (or in Euros converted from US dollars). While the green bill currency was dropping through the floor, bloggers earnings dropped too…
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The Battery University
When looking for factual information about batteries, the journey of the Internet user is full of traps. Fortunately, I found a detailled, very readable and facts-based web site. It named BatteryUniversity.com. I like a lot the 3-part articles with a lot of details (and with German translations). You will know everything about all battery technologies,…
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Use your iPhone to access the Internet from your PC laptop
Thanks to LifeHacker, and if you have the following, you will be able to use your iPhone to access Internet from your laptop. A computer with Wi-Fi capable of creating an ad-hoc computer-to-computer connection (yours is) A jailbroken iPhone (If you don’t know how to jailbreak your iPhone, the easiest way is to make sure…
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Master your D-SLR, LifeHacker guides
LifeHacker published a series of articles about the basics of a Digital SLR (Single Lens Reflex) camera. It’s worth reading if you are not pro-photographer. Part 1 : Program mode Part 2 : Manual mode It could be useful to quickly master your latest Christmas gift.
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Whale ancestor found
We all knew that the whale was actually a terrestrial mammal gone back to the sea a few million years ago (this is most visible in the presence of vestigial leg bones that are not associated to externally apparent legs or fins), but it was a bit difficult to say exactly what the ancestor looked…
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Did you backup?
A backup, this is nearly nothing. But it can help you, it can save you, when disaster will strike. Since when didn’t you backup? Some ideas: Remember to copy the contents of your Flash memory card (even more if you store a lot of JPEG images on your big Flash card) Copy the data files…
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Crysis: The physics engine and 3000 barrels of TNT
Watch what a good level editor can do to Crysis if you really want to push the limits of the physics engine. YouTube link
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Thumbnails rather than icons: ThumbWin
Tired of storing your Windows applications as icons in the icon bar? Here comes ThumbWin, a small free application that allows to keep thumbnails (small images) of the reduced application. It’s bigger than the icon, but it’s still readable and you have a big screen, don’t you?
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Pantone coffee mugs
Specially for graphics designers, for those who cannot stop seeing the word in Pantone colors, W2 Products designed coffee mugs branded by Pantone. Out of stock already.