Category: Software
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Is Windows Vista crippled?
This is the right question to ask. I waited quite some time before writing about a bizarre issue with Windows Vista. Initially I thought that it was a small bug to be quickly corrected by Microsoft: file copying, file deleting and file moving is apparently very slow in Vista. When we say slow, understand “10-50…
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Music without limits
The recent news lead me to talk again about digital music and its cohabitation (or lack of) with network technology. As a matter of fact, we learn this week that our new French President is in favor of a strong action against pirated music and downloads. This is not very new, indeed, but the confirmation…
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WordPress: How to survive being slashdotted or digged?
Being propulsed to the home page of a famous web site like SlashDot or Digg is intensely satisfying for the author of a blog, but it usually results in an intense traffic storm for your server that may not survive to the typhoon even if it comes from friends. DownloadSquad grouped some ideas on how…
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AMD Radeon HD 2900 XT: It’s ready now!
With about eight months of delays, AMD finally launches its new high-level grpahics card. Curiously, it is not set to beat all performance records but to fight against the GeForce 8800 GTS of nVidia (both are sold around 399$). Nonetheless, it will be necessary to wait for the future tests. As a matter of fact,…
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PC price trends
Currently, I am wandering a lot around the the web sites for OEM suppliers to manufacturers of micro-computers. This leads me to observe some apparent trends (at least in the opinions of the experts) that could be of interest if you intend to buy PC hardware in the coming months. DRAM memory: All the observers…
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Experiment: Mobile Roumazeilles.net
I just installed a WordPress plugin to make Roumazeilles.net usable from a mobile phone (WordPress Mobile). If you want to test and tell me about problem, you’ll be thanked.
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Screenshots on steroids
When you want to make a screenshot, you usually end up with a rectangular copy of your computer screen. Did you dream to be able to do more? RumShot is here for you. It allow to post-process your screenshots inside what the developer named themes. Uncommon result, isn’t it? Thankfully, they provide theme packs.
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Top 10 anti-censorship methods
More and more often, accessing the Internet becomes limited by the presence of censoring tools and methods (and I am not speaking of those countries where this has been institutionalized like China, Iran or Tunisia). It may be to avoid your spending too much time idling instead of working or it may be to ensure…
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09 f9 11 02 9d 74 e3 5b d8 41 56 c5 63 56 88 c0, prohibited number
Since the AACS (the protection of HD-DVD and Blu-Ray against copying) is technically broken, there was only one lock left: after unlocking tools, there was the need for the publication of the needed key to allow easy operation. The MPAA tries to ban this famous key number from the Internet while it keeps popping up…