Technology opinions and digital photography
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Protect your PDA for 1$
A Personal Data Assistant (PDA) like my Sony Clié (I did not update it lately, ain’t I), a Palm Tungsten E2 or a Palm Z22 includes a sensitive zone at the bottom of the screen where you can write with a stylus. But depending on your use (for example if you are an adept of…
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Open source/free alternatives
I’ve been telling often (too often?) that you should replace your Microsoft Office with the cheap (free!) and powerful OpenOffice desktop suite. But some of my readers wanted to know about other replacement solutions for PC applications running under MS-Windows. Here are my “Open source alternatives to popular PC software“: Title / Download Comments Firefox…
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Optimize your trips
This week, I observed a weird tendency (random concentration?) on the information channels I check on the Internet: I saw an increasing number of news about ways to optimize parts of your trips and travels. Trippish: Take weather into account to plan your trips. Farecast: Choose the best time to buy an airplane ticket in…
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Colourful nature of Per Lothe
Per Lothe is a photography artist that really knows how to put colour in landscapes. What is best than waiting for the right light to make his model greater. http://www.lothen.com/
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You come from everywhere
…as is shown on this map: The Roumazeilles.net visitors come from every corner of the world.
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Pentax K10D review at Imaging Resource
Imaging Resource is a web site with a low rate of publication, but its reviews are of the highest quality. Today, they publish a review of the Pentax K10D D-SLR (including anti-shake, dust reduction, 10MP, weather-proof body).
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A few days out
A leopard I shot last year in Kenya In the coming 15 days, I will be travelling in South Africa. The updates to the web site will not stop (it’s marvellous what a little bit of software automation can do!) but don’t count on my active participation (I will not be on line from the…
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Extreme macro photography
When you start fighting for the highest possible resolution in digital cameras, you usually count in mega-pixels. METIS Systems goes further: 4 giga-pixels in a single camera. The Digital Macro Camera 1015/C [PDF] is able to photograph 12 square meters at non-interpolated 254 ppi. (100 pixel per square millimeter). This is a tool to make…
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µTorrent in beta for Vista
Popular torrent client µTorrent released a new public beta earlier today. The beta is an early build of µTorrent version 1.7 and the most significant new feature is full support for Windows Vista. Source: Wired.com.
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