Category: Science & Geeks
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Insects engravings
John Obadiah Westwood (1805-1893), after obtaining a law degree, fell in love with entomology and archeology. Thanks to the Oxford Digital Library, volumes 1 & 2 of his ‘Arcana Entomologica‘ are now witnesses of his passion-filled activity (both scientific and artistic). Source: BiblioOdyssey.
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Crysis minimum requirements
Since it appears that finding this information about the Crysis video game is a bit difficult, you can follow the link to Crysis minimum requirements here.
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Spyder Pro to calibrate two LCD displays
I had previously indicated that I successfully calmibrated a Hyundai Q17 LCD display for a better color management. Today, in order to work in the best possible conditions when handling digital photos on my main PC system using a Dell 2407WFP as my primary display and still the same Hyundai Q17 as secondary display, I…
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GIMP, competition to Photoshop, now in version 2.4
GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages. That makes it a quite serious competitor to Adobe Photoshop, even if Adobe is still both much higher-priced and more…
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What good is the Crysis demo?
As plenty other people you may have already downloaded the Crysis demo because you wanted to taste the PC game of the end of the year. But some Internet web site went further and stressed the demo to the point that you can get a good feeling of what this video game will be capable…
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Sony upgrade and Canon recall
Two bits of news today that are quite significant of what happens with most of today’s high-end cameras. First, Sony just announced a firmware upgrade for the just-launched Alpha 700 professional photo camera. Some reviewers (like Chasseur d’Images) had noticed that the excellent sensor was not giving its best with the tested cameras (low-contrast foliage…
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Durian
Graphic animation to be seen at least once. link
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DirectX, back to the future
Whoever has been using DirectX software on Windows (and this means PC gamers, and only them) knows that you simultaneously need to continuously install new upgrades of the humongous software package from Microsoft in order to keep the best performance out of the PC games and the will to uninstall it or to come back…
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Crysis, the demo is coming
We are told that the demo for the Crysis PC video game will be available tomorow (Saturday) on a large number of game web sites. Update: The demo is now available. Beware! It’s no less than 1.7GB of a download. Go and fetch it from one of the following sites: FileFront Worthplaying Gamershell 3D Downloads…