Technology opinions and digital photography
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52 photos that warped our collective minds
Year after year, there are a few photo images that wrote History. LukeProg found 52 of them. The choice is always subjective, but most of them really hit the public.
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DirectX, back to the future
Whoever has been using DirectX software on Windows (and this means PC gamers, and only them) knows that you simultaneously need to continuously install new upgrades of the humongous software package from Microsoft in order to keep the best performance out of the PC games and the will to uninstall it or to come back…
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Crysis, the demo is coming
We are told that the demo for the Crysis PC video game will be available tomorow (Saturday) on a large number of game web sites. Update: The demo is now available. Beware! It’s no less than 1.7GB of a download. Go and fetch it from one of the following sites: FileFront Worthplaying Gamershell 3D Downloads…
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Storage on line
Tom’s Hardware just compared 7 online services for online storage of data. Take your storage online
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Spell-checking with Opera
I am in love with the Opera web browser. I use it for 99% of my web browsing, so it is also the tool I use when writing posts for the roumazeilles.net web site. The only thing that I did not have right out-of-the-box after download was the ability of checking my spelling (and several…
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Olympus E-3, a pro D-SLR: the tests
Olympus launches a new digital photo SLR for the 4/3 format. This already produced a small flood of tests, analysis and commentaries on the Internet. Here is my selection: Olympus E-3: assurant et rassurant (DigitLife – Français) Olympus E-3, enfin (DigitLife – Français) DPreview (English) Photography blog (English) PopPhoto (English) Think Camera, commentary (English) Think…
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Star War, the backstroke of the West
What happens when you translate English to Chinese to English? This is the question that should have been asked before translating the subtitles to Star Wars, the revenge of the Sith (or is it Star War, the backstroke of the West?) It’s so bad, that it may have been good to store it under “culture”.…
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The hypothesis of heterosexuality
I was recently confronted (during the preparation of my photo trip to Brazil) to a situation somewhat common. I did not take notice of it before, but I was tickled this time. Facts first: In order to reduce the cost of lodging during my trip the travel agent offered to share my room with another…
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Alignment
Look at it for a moment and you’ll see both the appearance of contrasting white spots and the power of your brain trying to create alignments (both vertical and horizontal).
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