Technology opinions and digital photography
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Whale ancestor found
We all knew that the whale was actually a terrestrial mammal gone back to the sea a few million years ago (this is most visible in the presence of vestigial leg bones that are not associated to externally apparent legs or fins), but it was a bit difficult to say exactly what the ancestor looked…
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Did you backup?
A backup, this is nearly nothing. But it can help you, it can save you, when disaster will strike. Since when didn’t you backup? Some ideas: Remember to copy the contents of your Flash memory card (even more if you store a lot of JPEG images on your big Flash card) Copy the data files…
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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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