Category: Software
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Upgrade your Canon camera to OpenSource nirvana
If you have a simple Point-n-Shoot digital camera, you may not know it, but you are limited more by the marketing teams than by the real technical constraints of your hardware. But if your camera is from Canon you may find an easy way out. The Canon Hacker’s Development Kit is an open-source software project…
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Acid3 test – 100% score for Safari and Opera
The age-old Acid3 test is a small (but challenging) test of the compatibility of web browsers. Very few of them are able to even display something remotely similar to the expected result. But things changed a lot recently with a few important news: On March 26, Opera was announced to be the very first browser…
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Email to convert documents
If you want to convert your Microsoft Word, Excel or PowerPoint files into PDF, just email them to pdf@koolwire.com. But there’s more: iphone@pdfonline.com to convert from Microsoft Word or Visio to PDF file doc@koolwire.com to convert from PDF to Word or RTF file mp3@koolwire.com to convert from WAV to MP3 format wav@koolwire.com to convert from…
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Woody Allen love story with a typeface
For those who did not notice, a disproportionately large majority of the titles to Woody Allen movies are written in one and only one font: Windsor. Apparently, this comes from a conversation with Ed Benguiat, famous American typographer, where Allen wanted to know what a good typeface was. Source: KitBlog.
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Salvaging a dead laptop PC
Your good old laptop PC went back to meet its maker and you can’t accept the idea of dumping it into the next waste basket (not even considering recycling, would you really want to part in such a harsh way?). Let’s not forget some of the few uses that you can still have from the…
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Opera 9: voice commands
I just discovered (I have to admit that I had not to look very far) a small feature of the Opera browser (from version 9): the voice interface. This is fascinating, Opera accepts voice commands and can read the contents of a web page. You have to first install a small add-in module (that is…