Category: Software
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Bloggers, fight plagiarism
There are plenty of cases where people copy part or all of the pages of a web site. It you use Google it may be more or less easy to find the copies. Copy Scape is the solution: You give the a web page address and Copy Scape will find copies on the web for…
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HD-DVD: First pirated copy on BitTorrent
It seems that the previous news about HD-DVD copy protection being broken are true since, this week, BitTorrent users started to see an unprotected copy of Serenity (a 2006 Science Fiction movie) flowing on the P2P network.
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WAMP, the server solution for Windows
Needing to quickly install a web server on a Windows PC, I was drawn into looking for a free software suite providing such sevrices in a simple and nice package. I already knew EasyPHP from Emmanuel Faivre, Laurent Abbal and Thierry Murail, three Frenchmen who put in a single tool box all the free open-source…
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Bloggers forced by US to register
There is currently a talk in the US legislative body whose intent is to force all writers of blogs having more than 500 readers to register themselves as lobyyists or face jail time. This is the result of an amendment introduced by Senator David Vitter that is currently struggling to be transformed into law, but…
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RSS feed – What is it?
You may have noticed a new logo appearing on our web site since the redesigned interface went online. If your web browser supports it (Opera 9, FireFox, Internet Explorer 7), a similar orange icon may appear on the web address bar. This is a feature that is good both for users and for web site…
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Chirurgy and web site
As you certainly noticed, we changed significantly the look-and-feel of our web site. The plastic surgeon used its scalpel to give a new face to the web site: reduce the size of the pages (faster downloads for you), improve readability (the white background increases the contrast), come back to a more sober graphic design (only…
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Windows 2000: Network drives are much faster than network shortcuts
I just noticed a small thing in Windows: Everything points to the fact that if I connect a network drive to a server directory (from the Tools… menu of the file explorer), the acess to this newly created drive letter (R:\) is much faster than access to its direct equivalent shortcut (\\Server\directory\). I don’t know…
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T-shirt for typographs
This T-shirt has been designed specially for typographers with a sense of humor. The word KERN (the spacing between two letters) is nicely printed on it, but cut in halves by a zipper that allow to change the kerning of letters E and R.
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ThePirateBay wants to buy Sealand
Last Summer, you read the saga of The Pirate bay, Swedish Bittorrent tracker that was raided by the local police force upon request/complaint of the music industry majors (there is indeed a large number of links to pirated music and video on http://www.thepiratebay.org/). But after moving quickly to Netherlands, the server came back to Sweeden…