Category: Science & Geeks
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Free movies, ad-supported, DRM-spiked
I cannot really test it from my trip in South America. However, I thought useful to inform you that there is a new web site providing free movies. You just have to accept some ads (not very different from what you have on most TV channels). SpiralFrog Did I speak about its legal status? It…
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WordPress 2.3 – It’s show time!
All WordPress users should know that their prefered tool for creating a web site has just been upgraded. WordPress 2.3 is now ready and rolled into the public.
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Google and numbers
Personal research: What are the web sites best ranked for a Google search on the first figures? The results are… interesting: 0 : en.Wikipedia.org (Google search) 1 : en.Wikipedia.org (Google search) 2 : w3.org (Google search) 3 : 3.co.uk UK telephone operator (Google search) 4 : channel4.org TV channel (Google search) 5 : five.tv TV…
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Nikon wants to help photographers on Flickr
How to meet the amateur photographers? Nowadays, you must go to the Internet. Even better, Nikon decided that the right place was were most amateurs were naturally going: Flickr. Nikon decided to venture into direct information inside Flickr ; They opened a kind of photo club on the web site: This is a quite good…
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Triple core AMD
THe news of the week on the CPU front line is definitely the arrival of new triple-core CPUs from AMD. There is an obvious wish to take the marketing and technical lead again on a ground where Intel was starting to appear as the unchallenged leader. But there is also an interesting technico-industrial approach. When…
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One Tera-byte of RAID data storage in a box
RAID storage is a good way to ensure a good security for your data: Two or more discs are used to give some redundancy and be sure that in case of a single drive failure you can still access your files (it will not protect you against deleting the files, though). However, the problem is…
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Crysis Multiplayer – DX10 or DX9
It’s been quite a question: What will DirectX 10 bring that DirectX 9 will not have? For the Multiplayer Crysis, the answer seems to come from Total Crysis (they have a Crytek press information). Physics and day and night cycle: With DirectX 9, you will not be allowed to break havoc on the trees and…
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101 Ways To Know Your Software Project Is Doomed
101 Ways To Know Your Software Project Is Doomed, a strange list for software developers. Thanks to CodeSqueeze.
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Download free PowerPoint
You wanted to be able to produce those pro presentations with PowerPoint. But Microsoft Office seemed to expensive to buy it, so you decided to download an illegal (but free) version. No! Hold your horses. Real solutions are appearing all over the place. Up to now, you had the possibility to use Open Office (which…