Category: Science & Geeks

  • Panoramas for train spotters

    Panoramic photos that will naturally attract pathological train lovers. Photo 1 Photo 2 Photo 3 By Branislav Kropilak.

  • Canon EOS 40D. It’s near!

    Canon EOS 40D. It’s near!

    This time, we are nearing the full confirmation that the Canon EOS 40D will be present in the photo stores on September 2nd. Some US Internet users tried to collect direct data and learned that the camera is expected in stock at Best Buy (pre-orders would be accepted from some brick-and-mortar stores) at this date…

  • Maximum temperature acceptable by a CPU

    Even if you don’t go the the extremes of CPU overclocking, you may sometimes wonder whether your CPU is too hot or not. For example, my own Athlon XP 2600+ currently displays 62°C. Is it too much? Chris Hare comes to our help with his table of CPU characteristics. You will find there (among other…

  • Acronis True Image as a free download

    Acronis True Image is one of the best disk utilities of the market: Like Norton Ghost it allows to make a full-image copy of one hard disk drive and to restore it later in one pass. Unfortunately, up to now, it was a little expensive at $49.95. did you know that a lot of us…

  • Google crazy

    You really want to have a personalized Google and to have a gaga one? Go to google.com, then in the address bar copy the following text: javascript:R=0; x1=.1; y1=.05; x2=.25; y2=.24; x3=1.6; y3=.24; x4=300; y4=200; x5=300; y5=200; DI=document.images; DIL=DI.length; function A(){for(i=0; i-DIL; i++){DIS=DI[ i ].style; DIS.position=’absolute’; DIS.left=Math.sin(R*x1+i*x2+x3)*x4+x5; DIS.top=Math.cos(R*y1+i*y2+y3)*y4+y5}R++}setInterval(‘A()’,5); void(0); Press the Enter key. Enjoy!

  • Visit a motherboard factory

    If you never entered a electronics plant, seeing how one of the biggest PC motherboard manufacturer builds them may be interesting. ECS Factory Tour – How A Motherboard Is Made

  • Miracle cure to clean up your photos

    Miracle cure to clean up your photos

    It’s a bane for photographers: There is always a little detail in the picture that we would like to remove. If it is an ugly little spot your best graphics suite will do. If it is something much more annoying (a fence, people, etc.), it may be a near to impossible task. Now, if you…

  • Japanese flora

    Japanese flora

    BibliOdyssey, as usual, presents one more impressive antique book: Ten albums of Japanese flora containing more than 700 images from the Museum at the University of Tokyo: honzo database (English home page).

  • Jesuits always missionaries for Christ: Second Life

    Jesuits belong to a catholic church order that can be rightfully praised for its passion for spreading the word of God to all ends of the world and for science in general (and some less brilliant moments, I have to admit). Today, we learn from Antonio Spadaro in La Civilta Cattolica a Jesuit Rome-based journal,…