Category: Science & Geeks
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Oil reserves, a world map
The Sietch blog publishes an interesting map of the world where country sizes are proportional to the size of their underground oil reserves. Colors can also point to the big users of oil (headed by the United States of America) which are also the big CO2 producers. Why do you believe that every country in…
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DRAM latency explained
The unreadable figures used to describe the performance of DRAM memory certainly need to be explained precisely. If you are ready for some technical reading, I invite you to DRAM latency explained on The Inquirer.
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Craziest captchas on the web
We find more and more of these graphic checks that are supposed to protect a web site against the programmed automatons. the idea is to ask a question that (intelligent) human beings can answer and a (silly) automaton will not. But sometimes, the author of the web site goes a little too far and you…
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Protect the front lens of your super-tele-lens
A super-tele-lens is a high-end beautiful piece of glass. Consequently, this is both expensive and fragile. LensCoat offers protection hoodies for the front lens of your super-tele from $13 to $25. To visit.
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Water on Mars: Evidence on video
An American student, Andrew Shaner, curently preparing his PhD thesis, created a YouTube video to present the elements that scientists have to show that water was available on Mars and may (still) be available. YouTube link Source: Futura-Sciences.
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Trillix decompiles Flash
You don’t have such a need everyday of your life. However, when you need to translate a small Flash program, when you want to grab elements that the graphics design agency failed to deliver with the Flash program you got, it’s time to decompile a Flash application. And there’s a good solution: Trillix.
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Drivers, benchmarks and new products
This is becoming weird. A few years ago, if a graphics card manufacturer brought a version of a graphic driver specially prepared for a specific software, everybody cried wolf and it was a scandal, a benchmark cheat and unwelcome optimisation to favor results on a specific measurement. Today, all this evolved significantly. Did you notice…
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Security is easy again
The toughest part of staying secure with your software programs is to know when to go and fetch a new patch/update that is critical to the security of your computer. Secunia brings the solution with Personal Software Inspector (PSI), a software application that checks the updates for the software programs that interest you.
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How to set RSS feeds as your desktop
Want the top news you’re interested in without opening up a browser? There is a way to do it in just six steps if you are willing to exploit the RSS feeds made available by most news web sites. Instructibles (via Download Squad).