Technology opinions and digital photography
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Blog Action Day
I will participate to Blog Action Day (posting on 15th of October specifically about an action that could help save the planet from the actions of men). If you have a blog, you should do the same.
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. faster, less easily
Faster: The most recent patch (1.004) of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Schadow of Chernobyl video game is remarkable because it accelerates notably the performance of this game on your PC without changing its hardware configuration. Less easily: It was forecasted to have S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Schadow of Chernobyl in download on Steam, the game distribution system from…
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A faster OpenOffice
Rather than downloading a pirated copy of Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), I keep repeating that you should try a free download of OpenOffice. But some people complain that it is too slow. I am not of this opinion, but I found a post about how to accelerate OpenOffice on an Ubuntu GNU/Linux. But this…
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Nikon cannot count
At the launch of the Nikon D300 camera, we learned that it would have an LCD screen of 900,000+ pixels. This seems quite impressive, however, it is a bit misleading. Once again a company decided to count dots on the screen instead of pixels. So, this screen is only a VGA (307,000 pixel LCD). If…
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Vertigo on the top floor
As if climbing up was not enough to create vertigo in some sky-scrappers, here comes an Italian architect, David Fischer, proposing to have a tower whose floors would rotate independently in a 68-floor tower. This is in Dubai. This is not decided yet. But the local lack of architectural restraint make it very believable. Thanks…
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A pro camera at Olympus: E-3
The newest pro SLR camera from Olympus appeared shortly in Korea. So, you may find a few interesting bits at: slrclub.com bbs.danawa.com Really not much to see, but this was probably not a mockup.
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Nouvelle fonctionalité : articles similaires
You may remark (or may not) the appearance of a new feature on this web site: on each individual post page, there is now a little list of similar articles. It is intended to help you discover new articles that you may not know but are related to the post your are reading at this…
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Panasonic DMC-L10
Panasonic had previosuly said that they wanted to seriously join the croud of camera manufacturers with a medium- to high-end Digital SLR. But up to now they did not disclose much. But now, there is more to taste it: a preview of the Panasonic DMC-L10 at DPreview, an analysis at PopPhoto.com and a Panasonic Press…
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Top colors in movie posters
It is quite common for movies to have nearly the same colors even if they present completely different features. In this context, there is a study titled “Dark and Fleshy: The Color of Top Grossing Movies” presenting in details the color spectrum of Hollywood blockbusters.
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