Technology opinions and digital photography
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Sony Alpha 200 is now known as Sony Alpha 700
We long thought that Alpha 200 would be the name of the new Sony Digital Single Lens Reflex. However, Sony surprised most people and named it Sony Alpha 700.
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WordPress 2.3 will come on September 20th
WordPress is currently preparing a new version 2.3 that will bring new possibilities to work together (multi-author blogs and web sites) and to enrich the articles/posts. We should see the final 2.3 version on September 20th.
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Dark side of Uranus
Uranus is too far from us to be seen clearly. But you don’t need a space probe to see the dark side of Uranus since it’s Hawai telescope which collected these images in August.
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Opera singing is for everybody
Two of my friends will be giving a concert in a few days. To give them strength and assurance, here is an example of exceptionnal brilliance, a voice totally out of the ordinary and really not common. MP3 recording of Florence Foster Jenkins Florence Foster Jenkins really existed and sincerily thought that her voice was…
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Phil Collins won’t like this ad for Cadbury
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HDMI video projector is all curves
The offering of video projectors is evolving quite quickly at this end of the year. I’d like to give only two examples: Today on the walls of Paris metro there is an offer for a less-than-400€ 800×600 2000-lumen 35dB-noise projector. It is even less expensive than a replacement lamp for my own Sony projector. Today…
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Download Microsoft Office for free (on Apple Mac)
Really! Who would like to have Microsoft Office. It’s expensive. If you donwload it for free, it’s just illegal. However, you can download the excellent Neo Office for OS/X (a Mac OS/X port of OpenOffice). It’s now available.
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No digital noise photography
Guillermo Luijk has a very interesting technique to remove completely all noise from digital photos. We know that this is a difficult task, but his solution is defenitely worth trying. It is relatively simple. The steps are: Shot the scene in a correct exposure according to our usual workflow Repeat the shot now reducing shutter…
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Download free PC games: FarCry, Prince of Persia, …
Just spotted: A few excellent games to download freely from FilePlanet. Free version: FarCry (I recommend heavily this excellent FPS, I still play with it) Free version: Prince of Persia: Sands of Time Free version: Rayman Raving Rabbids Apparently, this is ad-supported so you have to accept a little annoyance and to have an account…
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