Technology opinions and digital photography
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Crysis: The physics engine and 3000 barrels of TNT
Watch what a good level editor can do to Crysis if you really want to push the limits of the physics engine. YouTube link
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New firmware for Sony Alpha 700
For the happy owners of the Sony Alpha 700 Digital SLR camera, I want to tell that there is a new firmware (version 3) available. The improvements are: Bug correction: Resolves an issue where the Access Lamp remains lit and the camera stops responding when several pictures are taken in rapid succession. Bug correction: Resolves…
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Herons in the Pantanal
Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it Rufescent Tiger-heron, (Tigrisoma lineatum, Héron tigre). Click on the thumbnail image to enlarge it Green-backed heron, (Butorides striatus, Héron strié).
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Thumbnails rather than icons: ThumbWin
Tired of storing your Windows applications as icons in the icon bar? Here comes ThumbWin, a small free application that allows to keep thumbnails (small images) of the reduced application. It’s bigger than the icon, but it’s still readable and you have a big screen, don’t you?
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Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to you all!
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Fires in the bush, Pantanal
Click on the thumbnail images to enlarge them Forest fires are not only happening around the most populated areas (Greece, South of France and California). Sometimes, for reasons still to be clarified (criminal or not), wild fires willl start in the bush or the forest. Like this one in the Pantanal (Brazil, 2007).
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Nature abstract art
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Pantone coffee mugs
Specially for graphics designers, for those who cannot stop seeing the word in Pantone colors, W2 Products designed coffee mugs branded by Pantone. Out of stock already.
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Tiberium: An FPS in the universe of Command-and-Conquer
GameInformer revealed in a world exclusive coverage that Electronic Arts really started the development of an FPS video game in the universe of Command-and-Conquer (a very successful real-time strategy game). Will it work? Will it produce a good game? Or simply a C&C-ploitation?
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