Category: Software
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Crysis Multiplayer – DX10 or DX9
It’s been quite a question: What will DirectX 10 bring that DirectX 9 will not have? For the Multiplayer Crysis, the answer seems to come from Total Crysis (they have a Crytek press information). Physics and day and night cycle: With DirectX 9, you will not be allowed to break havoc on the trees and…
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101 Ways To Know Your Software Project Is Doomed
101 Ways To Know Your Software Project Is Doomed, a strange list for software developers. Thanks to CodeSqueeze.
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Download free PowerPoint
You wanted to be able to produce those pro presentations with PowerPoint. But Microsoft Office seemed to expensive to buy it, so you decided to download an illegal (but free) version. No! Hold your horses. Real solutions are appearing all over the place. Up to now, you had the possibility to use Open Office (which…
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Steal Microsoft Office!
Even if I persist in advising you not to pirate-copy MS-Office, not to download Word, Excel or PowerPoint but to download OpenOffice for free, I can’t resist to the temptation to give some echo to a Microsoft proposal. Steal Office! MS-Office is still out of reach for normal people around $400 (for this price you…
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Mad with Linux
Mad is the only adjective you want to use with the guy. and probably about Linux, since Saikee installed no less than 145 Operating Systems on his PC, including 137 different GNU/Linux distributions.
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Faster, faster, faster Linux
Linux.com published a good post giving three ideas about how to optimize your GNU/Linux distribution performance.
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Craziest captchas on the web
We find more and more of these graphic checks that are supposed to protect a web site against the programmed automatons. the idea is to ask a question that (intelligent) human beings can answer and a (silly) automaton will not. But sometimes, the author of the web site goes a little too far and you…
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Trillix decompiles Flash
You don’t have such a need everyday of your life. However, when you need to translate a small Flash program, when you want to grab elements that the graphics design agency failed to deliver with the Flash program you got, it’s time to decompile a Flash application. And there’s a good solution: Trillix.
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Drivers, benchmarks and new products
This is becoming weird. A few years ago, if a graphics card manufacturer brought a version of a graphic driver specially prepared for a specific software, everybody cried wolf and it was a scandal, a benchmark cheat and unwelcome optimisation to favor results on a specific measurement. Today, all this evolved significantly. Did you notice…