Technology opinions and digital photography

  • Ukiyo-e books by Kitagawa Utamaro

    Ukiyo-e books by Kitagawa Utamaro

    A friend of mine recently bought a copy of a Japanese wood engraving. While reading this article from BibliOdyssey, about the wood engravings of Kitagawa Utamaro, I thought I should share some of the pictures of this artist.

  • Download 5 free replacements for Nero

    It’s true that if you want to burn a CD-RW or a DVD-R (or any other optical slice of storage in the shape of a CD/DVD), the name of Nero immediately comes to mind. The advertising efforts are paid with this success (well supported by the good quality of this CD-bruning software), but there are…

  • TomTom on iPhone

    Did you see the presentation of the next generation of TomTom navigation software? It will arrive on the iPhone 3G/3G-s. YouTube link For me, this was reason enough to get my own iPhone 3G-s last Saturday.

  • Fast copy for Windows

    Fast copy for Windows

    photo credit: Ivan Zuber If you have Windows installed on your PC, you may have noticed one surprising thing: File copying is amazingly slower than what it was in previous editions of Windows or on other kinds of computers. The exact reason is a bit unclear (some say that it is linked to some Digital…

  • Planetary pictures and wallpapers

    Planetary pictures and wallpapers

    I consider that the most useful and often the most interesting wallpapers for your computer desktop are images that are relatively feature-less. A picture full of little details continuously grabbing your attention is a major nuisance. It’s much better to have either a very smooth image or a photo containing a lot of continuous tones.…

  • Compuserve is dead, for real!

    We had forgotten that it existed, but this major pioneer of the modem age of computer communication, Compuserve, has now officially closed its doors. It had been trampled by AOL before loosing ground in front of the Internet explosion. But, now, there is nothing left of the communication service we (I) used to exchange information…


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