Technology opinions and digital photography
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Control Linux from afar
When you have one computer under GNU/Linux, it is common to have it as a second machine to run experimentations or dedicated to one single task (run one program like BitTorrent, a backup server or a web server, for example). In this case, it is quite pleasant to be able to control it without leaving…
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Yann Arthus Bertrand has a page on Flickr
The famous photographer of “Earth seen from the Sky” now has a page on Flickr. What is happening here? While he is still very attentive to the management of his photographer’s rights and of his fame, Yann Arthus Bertrand would have fallen into a liberated open publishing media? Of course, not. This is just an…
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Mute your browser
Sometimes it comes handy to silence your browser. When it opens a Flash media file and starts shouting. Here is FlashMute. It mutes Flash into your browser or all of your browser, leaving the rest of the computer in its normal state.
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TimeShift, GT review of a FPS game
Game Trailers, on top of providing a good source for video material distributed by the designers and distributors of video games, has sometimes a good video review of games. Here comes one: TimeShift from Sierra, one of the few First Person Shooters being handed out before Christmas. link to GT videolink to HD video Definitely…
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CAD: Predator
I love Ctrl-Alt-Del comics. Today, we learn something about predation in the savanah.
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Life is an optical illusion
A nice black and white photo from heavenuphere where the eye can fall easily.
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No DRM is good for the media business
Or so it seems from the more recent news I received through different channels these days. First, BluRay BD+ copy protection and DRM system appears to have been cracked. In the latest revision of AnyDVD (a quite well known DVD copying software), there is now an option to handle BD+. It means that even the…
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Crysis, available tomorrow
After months of expectation organised by marketing and advertisment, the FPS video game most awaited of the year, Crysis, will be available tomorrow (you can already download it on Steam and the Electronic Arts online shop/store -on-line electronic payment and validation- but not use it yet). Graphic card providers are already dreaming of the rising…
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