Category: Science & Geeks
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Models at 1/6th scale
For the amateurs of models, trains and military dioramas, here is a site where you’ll find photos of a surprisingly good work at 1/6th scale.
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Fight SPAM and scan books
It is well known that the human brain has pattern matching capabilities much further advanced than those of the best equivalent software programs. This explains that failure rates of OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program may be as high as 1% (or even 2%) of errors, which is requiring later human proof-reading to ensure a reasonable…
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Anatomy of an imaginary creature
Canis pneumatis, or the common balloon dog, is a creature whose anatomy was not too well understood. Up to now. Today we have the first detailed poster about its anatomy.
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Mac day, today
While browsing through LifeHacker, I found this week a series of apparently interesting posts for Mac buffs. Let’s share: Top 10 Mac OS X tweaks Speed up your Mac Take screen shots on your Mac
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Slow Sync Flash
The technique of Slow synch flash is somewhat difficult to master and this is why I invite you to check the Digital Photography School and its article about it: Slow Sync Flash.
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New LCD screen: Dell 2407WFP
Other notable characteristics: Integrated flash memory card reader. Multiple video inputs (DVI-D/HDCP, S-Vidéo, Composite, Component). Integrated USB concentrator. I finally cracked and bought a new screen to replace my main working display. I chose a Dell 2407WFP to have a large work surface (1920 x 1200 in 24″), a wide form factor (useful to push…
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Octopart, a search engine for electronic parts
For both pro electronic engineers and amateur tweakers/hackers. Octopart
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Is Windows Vista crippled?
This is the right question to ask. I waited quite some time before writing about a bizarre issue with Windows Vista. Initially I thought that it was a small bug to be quickly corrected by Microsoft: file copying, file deleting and file moving is apparently very slow in Vista. When we say slow, understand “10-50…
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LCD TV prices won’t go lower than that
In our series of market predictions, here is an article at The Guru of 3D (titled “LCD TV prices hit bottom“) that explains why, according to iSupply industry analyst, the LCD TV sets won’t go much lower in the near future. This rebound of LCD bare screens prices will probably have an impact on wide-screen…