Technology opinions and digital photography
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Ban the bulb down under!
Australia environment minister Malcolm Turnbull is seriously considering banning the common traditionnal incandescent bulb in order to significantly reduces energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. Even without a ban, you could also think about reducing your own personnal electricity bill by switching to low energy compact fluorescent lamps. Source: BBC news.
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CompactDrive PD70X, latest news
For me, the CompactDrive PD70X is still a marvellous machine when you want to copy your flash memory cards onto portable hard disc storage. It still owns the speed record and it behaves like a camel when it comes to electric energy. Today, I learned a few interesting informations that I want to share with…
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100 fonts with top character
Again, I come back to the issue of free fonts of great quality. DaFont holds links to hundreds of character fonts readily downlodable for both Mac and PC. Usually, this leads to a bunch of crap fonts. Here, the top 100 list is really of impressive quality. Waltograph is copying Walt Disney’s signature, Evanescence is…
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Sony new Cybershot cameras
Apparently, Sony is preparing to roll out a number of new digital cameras on the 27th of February. But Engadget already got the scoop.
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Silent X1950 pro
When you deal with high-end graphic cards (high-end both in terms of performance and price), you soon discover that you are spaeking about racing machines eating a lot of energy, needing a very efficient cooling solution and usually bragging about their performance through the sound of noisy fans. Here comes the announcement expected for very…
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Vista does not sell because of piracy
Believe it or not, this is what Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, just told to financial analysts. He was trying to explain why the actual sales are already considered as much lower than the initial MS estimation. Apaprently, the most exotic countries (China, Russia, South East Asia) are on the list of the accused. But wouldn’t…
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Canon 1D-mkIII announced
Canon is presenting today a new high-end product under the name of 1D-mkIII. Here are the main features: 10.1 Megapixel CMOS sensor (1.3x factor): Going to today’s standard 10 fps continuous shooting for up to 110 frames: Did you say high-end? Dual DIGIC III processors: Real processing power New AF system with 19 cross style…
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Free movie: Rashomon
Download from Internet Archive Download from Google video Movie information from IMDB.org Today, I want to present a major movie, one of the world best films, a diamond from 1950. Rashômon is one of the most important movies of its time, and it stays as a golden nugget for both its form and its contents.…
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Ridiculed scammers
For once, a scammer let us smile (though against his will). Let’s smile. Today, it is the 419 scammers that have been baited by an Internet user who decided to have fun with them and convinced them that he would give a lot of money to people who would recreate famous scenes from movies or…
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