Category: Software
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Win98 is really dead!
After long years of operation, Windows 98 is officially dead today (11 July 2006). As a matter of fact, this is not news and Microsoft was slowly reducing the efforts and even in June they refused to patch a security issue arguing that it would be too much effort (and that they couldn’t care less).…
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Crysis: FarCRY, the FPS was only the beginning
FarCry, one of the best First Person Shooter video game (a game in the old shoot-them-all category of Doom or Quake), spent a lot of time on my PC. I played with it at day and at night. But Crytek, the game authoring company, is preparing Crysis as a follow-up, sequel, or renewed FPS video…
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Why you must not install MS Office 2007 beta
I think this would be a bad idea. This is why.
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No DirectX 10 for XP – Go Vista
News from The Inquirer: Vista will be the only Operating System supporting DirectX 10 (the latest version of the video-game-oriented graphic support software). This is bad news for those intending to keep WindowsXP and willing to use the latest video games and entertainment software in 2007. You will have to switch to Vista, like it…
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RawShooter bought by Adobe
Market concentration ahead! While Adobe just announced buying Pixmantec the designer of RawShooter, a very good utilities program to handle RAW files (digital photography images, uncompressed, straigth out of the digital camera sensor). For me, this looks like food for thought. Indeed, while buying a product (partially) in competition with its own, Adobe is actively…
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Search in blogs
I am not sure this is a priority for the normal Internet web user, but blog authors may appreciate the recognition brought by Google with its specialized search engine for blogs: Google Blog Search.
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IE7 is on us, let’s prepare our sites
I need to look into this quickly now that Internet Explorer 7 is seriously ready to reach all of our PCs. There will be news, there will be chanes and uour web sites may suddenly break down because of that. For it, RegDeveloper offer its help with an article on preparing your web site for…
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500$ for a 1 Tera-byte NAS
This is simply the aim of an InformationWeek article. NAS (Network Attached Storage) solutions exist to connect 1 Tera-byte (1000 Mega-bytes, dang!) of hard disk drives to your network, but you normally have to pay more than $1000 or 1000€. Here, they show us how to build a DIY data server from a basic PC,…
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Web site: 8 mistakes to avoid
It’s not only that when creating a web site you have to make it as easy to use as possible, but these things seem not to change with time. WebMonkey gives us a fine list of these mistakes no web designer should allow himself: Links that don’t change color when visited Breaking the back button…