Category: Science & Geeks

  • Sony: Official photo of new cameras and lenses

    Sony: Official photo of new cameras and lenses

    We are still waiting for the newest announcements from Sony photo departement. However, PhotoClubAlpha.com got an official image of the 2007-8 line up. We see everything that has been shown in the beginning of the year, but in a much cleared view. Click to enlarge For people interested in the longer focals, the most attracting…

  • Panoramic world record: Biggest panoramic photo is 13 Giga-bytes

    Panoramic world record: Biggest panoramic photo is 13 Giga-bytes

    Did you think that you needed a little more space to store the RAW digital files of your digital camera? Think again. Photographer Gérard Maynard and French panorama software company Kolor created a panoramic digital photograph of no less that 13 Giga-bytes. 2045 photos stitched together using Kolor’s AutoPano Pro software. Gérard Maynard used a…

  • PC price trends

    Currently, I am wandering a lot around the the web sites for OEM suppliers to manufacturers of micro-computers. This leads me to observe some apparent trends (at least in the opinions of the experts) that could be of interest if you intend to buy PC hardware in the coming months. DRAM memory: All the observers…

  • Publish your own book

    Print on Demand (POD) has become a very affordable solution for people willing to publish their own books. Previously, you had to convince a publisher to invest in printing hundreds if not thousands of copies of your book; then, you hoped for success and -usually- failed. Print your own book at: CafePress Lulu With Print…

  • Galapagos: bad news and hope

    The Galapagos islands have earned years ago the inscription to UNESCO’s World Heritage. You have to admit that their unique situation (recognized ince the founding travel of Charles Darwin and confirmd by innumerable TV documentaries like those from Cousteau) was quite understandable. But New Scientist tells us that this privileged status may be lost to…

  • Experiment: Mobile Roumazeilles.net

    I just installed a WordPress plugin to make Roumazeilles.net usable from a mobile phone (WordPress Mobile). If you want to test and tell me about problem, you’ll be thanked.

  • Ten questions with Dr. Philip Zimbardo

    Dr. Philip Zimbardo was the psychologist behind the Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE), where in 1971 in a fake environment students experiemented with the influence of the environment on the apparition of behaviours that are considered as highly anti-social (quite normal graduate students played the roles of guards and prisoner, and quickly -in 6 days- derailed…

  • Screenshots on steroids

    Screenshots on steroids

    When you want to make a screenshot, you usually end up with a rectangular copy of your computer screen. Did you dream to be able to do more? RumShot is here for you. It allow to post-process your screenshots inside what the developer named themes. Uncommon result, isn’t it? Thankfully, they provide theme packs.

  • South Africa: AIDS plan, at last

    South Africa is a country suffering a lot from AIDS. The HIV virus is present in too large a part of the population, even more if we think about the advanced economy of this African country. But up to now, the government was doing nothing, or nearly nothing. This is changing with the announcement of…