Technology opinions and digital photography
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Sensor cleaning, the simple way
It seems that despite all my lack of bad experience in this context, many digital photographers (specifically using Digital SLR cameras) have been suffering from dirt sticking to their camera’s sensor. This produces dark blotches on clear zones of the image (like in the light blue sky of your landscapes). Today, I found a nice…
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DRM kills business
It’s all over the place today: German MusicLoad revealed that 75% of its customer support calls were about complaining around the problems created by the inclusion of Digital Rigths Management (DRM) in the MP3 files they sell. Coming from a company that is living from the sale of legal MP3s, it has a lot of…
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Spammers hit by the SEC
You certainly noticed in the flood of SPAMs that is probably arriving in your mailbox as in mine, that many of them are promoting stock exchange securities -that you usually do not know about. This is generally part of an elaborate (but old) scam known as ‘pump and dump‘. It consists in buying shares of…
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Online MindMapping
You may remember when I previously wrote about a nice little Windows utility for Mind Mapping (a simple way to organize your thoughts and to direct brain storming sessions). Today, thanks to Download Squad, if you are interested in this technique, I can recommend that you have a look at the following tools that are…
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YAPB: A photoblog using WordPress
I did not yet have time to evaluate it formally but, on the paper, it seems that YAPB (Yet another photo blog) is a plugin allowing ot easily build a photoblog based upon WordPress (the size of thumbnails is configurable, WordPress themes are still usable, but there is no galery). One rule: One image, one…
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Webcron.org: crontab on the web
Webcron is an automated task service at set hours. If you know Unix or Linux you already heard about the Crontab. Webcron is a Web adaptation of this well-known Crontab. But nothing complicated at all! Webcron allows you to do tasks at set hours by looking for a page on your website. For example, save…
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CryEngine 2, the motor behind Crysis
For the technically inclinded gamers, Crytek published an interesting PDF file providing information about CryEngine2, the graphics real-time rendering engine/motor behind Crysis, their upcoming First Person Shooter (FPS) game. It’s a bit deep, but you may learn a thing or two about what makes your prefered game tick. Along with the graphics technology data, you…
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Price of LCD panels falling through the floor
Following the current trends about LCD panels is quite interesting. Currently, on professional trade publications like DigiTimes, we keep hearing one simple message: The price of the LCD panels is falling down in 2007, except for small sizes. Essentially, it translates into: the LCD TV sets and screen displays are going to see plumeting prices…
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