Category: Science & Geeks
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Control Linux from afar
When you have one computer under GNU/Linux, it is common to have it as a second machine to run experimentations or dedicated to one single task (run one program like BitTorrent, a backup server or a web server, for example). In this case, it is quite pleasant to be able to control it without leaving…
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Mute your browser
Sometimes it comes handy to silence your browser. When it opens a Flash media file and starts shouting. Here is FlashMute. It mutes Flash into your browser or all of your browser, leaving the rest of the computer in its normal state.
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TimeShift, GT review of a FPS game
Game Trailers, on top of providing a good source for video material distributed by the designers and distributors of video games, has sometimes a good video review of games. Here comes one: TimeShift from Sierra, one of the few First Person Shooters being handed out before Christmas. link to GT videolink to HD video Definitely…
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No DRM is good for the media business
Or so it seems from the more recent news I received through different channels these days. First, BluRay BD+ copy protection and DRM system appears to have been cracked. In the latest revision of AnyDVD (a quite well known DVD copying software), there is now an option to handle BD+. It means that even the…
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Crysis, available tomorrow
After months of expectation organised by marketing and advertisment, the FPS video game most awaited of the year, Crysis, will be available tomorrow (you can already download it on Steam and the Electronic Arts online shop/store -on-line electronic payment and validation- but not use it yet). Graphic card providers are already dreaming of the rising…
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Marvelous libraries
A library is not only a marvelous location to read books, but it may also be -simply- a marvelous location. This is the case with the collection of cultural culmination points that are offered to our eyes at Curious Expeditions. Handelingenkamer Tweede Kamer Der Staten-Generaal Den Haag, the Hague, Netherlands
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Digital photo: HP stops now
More precisely, HP stops developping new camera products. They will sign a license agreement to keep a line of photo cameras, but they will only glue their logo to the body of cameras probably designed and manufactured in South-East Asia. HP is now concentrating onto the printing market.
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Free SciFi books
A few weeks ago ManyBooks.net started to make available a number of SciFi books in PDF format and without any unreasonable restrictions (this is copyrighted material that has been left in the public domain). Decided to give it a try and not knowing these books, I chose (randomly) to download Space Prison from Tom Godwin…
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MS Project tutorial for senior design
“Project management is an important part of the senior design process. For the most part, teams manage projects in an informal way: They have a deadline to meet, and they monitor progress of the project as it moves along. However, computer resources are available for managing team projects more formally. This tutorial [Microsoft Word] will…