Category: Software
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DRAM price trends: Up or down?
This is quite surprising. After about a month of DRAM memory prices going up (this was quite surprising), the market analyst DRAMexchange tells us that this is now the end and the prices will fall again. Apparently, despite the vows of manufacturers like Nanya whose CEO is confirming that he would not try to limit…
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Acronis True Image as a free download
Acronis True Image is one of the best disk utilities of the market: Like Norton Ghost it allows to make a full-image copy of one hard disk drive and to restore it later in one pass. Unfortunately, up to now, it was a little expensive at $49.95. did you know that a lot of us…
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Google crazy
You really want to have a personalized Google and to have a gaga one? Go to google.com, then in the address bar copy the following text: javascript:R=0; x1=.1; y1=.05; x2=.25; y2=.24; x3=1.6; y3=.24; x4=300; y4=200; x5=300; y5=200; DI=document.images; DIL=DI.length; function A(){for(i=0; i-DIL; i++){DIS=DI[ i ].style; DIS.position=’absolute’; DIS.left=Math.sin(R*x1+i*x2+x3)*x4+x5; DIS.top=Math.cos(R*y1+i*y2+y3)*y4+y5}R++}setInterval(‘A()’,5); void(0); Press the Enter key. Enjoy!
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Miracle cure to clean up your photos
It’s a bane for photographers: There is always a little detail in the picture that we would like to remove. If it is an ugly little spot your best graphics suite will do. If it is something much more annoying (a fence, people, etc.), it may be a near to impossible task. Now, if you…
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Automatic correction of your photos
Removing an annoying front element, adding a few people to fill a too empty street, replacing an ugly part of an image. And do it automagically! This is what is offered by Carnegie Mellon University with its Clip Art and Scene Completion highly innovating tools just presented by their Graphics Labs. Carnegie Mellon, Graphics Labs
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BioShock Collector’s Edition – in Europe
When this game will be on the shelves, there will also be a limited edition under the name of BioShock Collector’s Edition. It will contain: limited edition embossed steel case, a Making Of DVD, Soundtrack CD, hand-finished 14cm resin figurine However, this special product will not be available everywhere. Some countries will be favored, but…
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Best utility for your graphics card
Anandtech has a nice post about the best utility software programs for the owner of a recent graphics card (be it an nVidia or and AMD-ATI). They compare: ATI Catalyst Control Center ATI Tray Tools ATITool nVIDIA Control Panel & nTune RivaTuner nHancer BIOS Flashing options and programs
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Crysis: November, 16
This is now official! Electronic Arts will launch Crysis, the most anticipated First Person Shooter video game for PC on the 16th of November.
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F.E.A.R. 2 is not the sequel to F.E.A.R.
This is becoming weirder and weirder. I had previously spoken about Ubisoft announcing FarCry 2 to follow in the footsteps of FarCry (a sequel?) while Crytek was working on Crysis (a technical improvement and a sequel). Here, we have to speak of another video game in the First Person Shooter (FPS) category, F.E.A.R. that has…