Technology opinions and digital photography
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Canon 40D as seen by Chasseur d’Images
Again, Chasseur d’Images provided its forecast/rumour collection for the upcoming Canon 40D. Since some people wanted to see the list because it may be difficult to find the magazine out of Western Europe, here is a summary: Same chassis as the 30D Same viewfinder as the 30D No specific weather protection (competitive disadvantage against Nikon…
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Nikon D300 according to Chasseur d’Images
Chasseur d’Images, the first European photo magazine published the rumoured/forecasted characteristics of the upcoming Nikon D300 (or would it be Nikon D200x?): Will come end of July Same good viewfinder as D200 Same chassis as D200 Weather protection Sony sensor APS-C of 12/13 Mpixels (possibly improved over the standard Sony version) New chip for better…
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Clear Sky, the promotional videos
GameTrailers brought back fro mthe E3 game fair a whole bunch of videos of S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Clear Sky, the FPS video game that presents the prequel to S.T.A.L.K.E.R. – Shadow of Chernobyl with its best elements. Here is an example, but I think you should also follow the link to find some more (even HD…
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Mac GrandPerspective to see disk space
Some time ago, I had spoken here of SequoiaView, a Windows utility to visualize the space used by files on a hard disk drive (a great way to prepare for freeing space on a hard drive choking full of hundreds of GB of data). Today, I found a free utility doing about the same task…
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Prices falling for CPUs
Now, we had announced them: Summer sales. AMD started with nearly all its CPU products, Intel followed immediately, AMD announced that they would not go further for now. Today, Intel does it again for quad-core processors (but prices are already so high that you need breathing assistance to observe them in the rarefied air of…
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BibliOdyssey, a quality library
BibliOdyssey is a web site about art in antique prints. You love books, you love quality books, you must stay tuned to BibliOdyssey. Today, I just want to point to one single impressive post there: Drawing on the Renaissance.
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Audacity: The musical utility
For the music lovers, the sound amateurs, the podcasters, Audacity is a tool out of the usual: despite its cheap price (it’s free) it has near professional features.
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Crysis, Far Cry 2? No
We are speaking a lot about the exceptional FPS game known as Crysis which is prepared by Crytek and EA (launch in September 2007). Everything has already been said about the very high image quality and playability. However, Ubisoft announced that they bought the rights to the Far Cry franchise and are preparing Far Cry…
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AMD, wins and losses
AMD just announced two things nearly simultaneously : loosing $600 millions in operations in the last quarter (the financial balance is not good, but the message in there is: “it’s gonna be better soon”) and receiving a €262 millions from the German government (approved by the European Commission) to support the investments in their Dresden…
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