Category: Tech
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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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Unidentified Flying Raw (UFRaw) for Linux
The Unidentified Flying Raw (UFRaw) is a utility to read and manipulate raw images from digital cameras. It can be used on its own or as a Gimp plug-in. It reads raw images using Dave Coffin’s excellent raw conversion utility – DCRaw. UFRaw supports basic color management using Little CMS, allowing the user to apply…
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Protect your PDA for 1$
A Personal Data Assistant (PDA) like my Sony Clié (I did not update it lately, ain’t I), a Palm Tungsten E2 or a Palm Z22 includes a sensitive zone at the bottom of the screen where you can write with a stylus. But depending on your use (for example if you are an adept of…
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Open source/free alternatives
I’ve been telling often (too often?) that you should replace your Microsoft Office with the cheap (free!) and powerful OpenOffice desktop suite. But some of my readers wanted to know about other replacement solutions for PC applications running under MS-Windows. Here are my “Open source alternatives to popular PC software“: Title / Download Comments Firefox…
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Pentax K10D review at Imaging Resource
Imaging Resource is a web site with a low rate of publication, but its reviews are of the highest quality. Today, they publish a review of the Pentax K10D D-SLR (including anti-shake, dust reduction, 10MP, weather-proof body).
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Extreme macro photography
When you start fighting for the highest possible resolution in digital cameras, you usually count in mega-pixels. METIS Systems goes further: 4 giga-pixels in a single camera. The Digital Macro Camera 1015/C [PDF] is able to photograph 12 square meters at non-interpolated 254 ppi. (100 pixel per square millimeter). This is a tool to make…