Category: Science & Geeks
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Storage on line
Tom’s Hardware just compared 7 online services for online storage of data. Take your storage online
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Spell-checking with Opera
I am in love with the Opera web browser. I use it for 99% of my web browsing, so it is also the tool I use when writing posts for the roumazeilles.net web site. The only thing that I did not have right out-of-the-box after download was the ability of checking my spelling (and several…
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Star War, the backstroke of the West
What happens when you translate English to Chinese to English? This is the question that should have been asked before translating the subtitles to Star Wars, the revenge of the Sith (or is it Star War, the backstroke of the West?) It’s so bad, that it may have been good to store it under “culture”.…
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Print all the world’s SPAM
In 1998, Nick Philip created an art installation willing to show the real volume of SPAM. An email address on nowhere.com forwards all SPAM it receives to fax machines that print it all.
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Lifehacker Top 10: Network utilities
The excellent LifeHacker web site has a good list of top network utilities.
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First astroport will be in New Mexico
Las Cruces, New Mexico, will be the place to go in 2008 or 2009 when Virgin Galactic opens flights to space for business and tourism. In preparation, the SpacePort has to be built. URS Corporation and Foster + Partners have won the international competiton for soon-to-be-realized New Mexico Spaceport Authority Building. Passengers to the Moon,…
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A Beginner’s Guide to Mind Mapping Meetings
This Mind Mapping technique is essentially simple to use, but it can be useful or necessary to be guided not to let yourself wander around aimlessly. That is why I appreciated to find this Beginner’s Guide to Mind Mapping Meetings at FileHacker.
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GigaPan: billions of pixels on panoramas
Photographers are avid of more pixels per frame. Most of them are also fond of panoramic photos (they look so cool). Why not join forces and make a contraption able to shoot panoramas with billions of pixels (multi-giga-pixel panoramas)? This is what Charmed Labs and Carnegie Mellon University did when they developed the GigaPan robotic…
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World’s biggest digital sensor on a telescope
The Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS) is a project that is being prepared to hunt for dangerous asteroids that may hit Earth (and possibly wipe out Humans like one did for the Dinosaurs). Technically, the sensor is impressive. It’s no less than 40cm-wide and hosts 1.4billion pixels (can you say “1.4 giga-pixel…