Category: Science & Geeks
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Display code in WordPress
When, as I do, you want to include some bits and pieces of software code in a WordPress post, it starts to become a serious headache. As a matter of fact, WP has not really been prepared for this and it creates a number of issues. Those I already encountered here: The <?php tend to…
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Google finds MP3 (legal or not)
A neat trick that was hanging around the Internet but that I found in Transnets. How to search with Google for the MP3 files of your artist of choice. Use the following search phrase (replacing Roumazeilles with the artist name): {-inurl:(htm|html|php) intitle:”index of” +”last modified” +”parent directory” +description +size +(wma|mp3) “Roumazeilles”}
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Thunderbird 2.0 flies freely
Mozilla just announced the availability of the newest version of its email reader Thunderbird. New functionalities. English versions: Windows Mac OS X Linux French versions: Windows Mac OS X Linux
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Matrix 4 – The ATARI-Pong prequel
Thanks to XKCD
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Digital Photo Academy
Digital Photo Academy is a Panasonic-LUMIX initiative for the American users of digital cameras. They will be holding teaching courses and presentations open to all users of those D-SLR and compact cameras. The web site is not yet open, but more news just before May 2007. Atlanta Boston Chicago Cleveland Dallas Denver Detroit Houston Los…
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Railroad Tycoon – a simulation game for free!
If you are interested in the simulation games like Civilization, you may be interested to know that 2K Games is hiding a free download link for the (slightly older) Railroad Tycoon, on the home page of Railroads! web site. Download Railroad Tycoon. Have fun, be free.
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All about Nikon VR
In our series of reference technical papers, we invite you to go and check “What’s behind vibration reduction“, a very interesting description of the technology Nikon uses to reduce image blur caused by vibrations of the photo camera (or of the photographer). It is quite nicely done (cool desing from Nikon) and deeply documented. Just…
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Earth seen from the Sky: Monster image
Some assemble really big images. Some do it professionally, like NASA. They took a huge number of satellite images and made a 0.5 giga-pixel photo of the Earth (up to 21600×21600), known as the Visible Earth.
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More details in Microsoft Live Maps
Microsoft Live Maps is a satellite mapping application in direct competition with Google Maps and a few others. Microsoft just added a large amount of photo images taken from planes. It produces 3.8 tera-bytes of additional data. But this mostly means more details and some of the images are taken at a slightly slanted angle…