Technology opinions and digital photography

  • AquaGallery

    The AquaGallery is a little graphic experiment about aquatic forms and how to draw them in video. Enjoy!

  • Free fonts – Maximum quantity

    After posting previously about 25 top quality fonts, I also got a link to an interesting web site providing a LOT of free fonts. It does not mean that they are all useful, interesting or good-looking, but you have some impressive choice: 13,000+ fonts in one search engine. SearchFreeFonts

  • OpenSuse 10.2, a review

    I have been writing about OpenSuse previously here. So, it is time to tell you about a nice little review made on the grand-daddy of all techno-computer information web sites (not that it was the first, but because it is following in the foot steps of the exceptionnaly successful Byte Magazine). Byte.com just published an…

  • Bloggers, fight plagiarism

    There are plenty of cases where people copy part or all of the pages of a web site. It you use Google it may be more or less easy to find the copies. Copy Scape is the solution: You give the a web page address and Copy Scape will find copies on the web for…

  • HD-DVD: First pirated copy on BitTorrent

    It seems that the previous news about HD-DVD copy protection being broken are true since, this week, BitTorrent users started to see an unprotected copy of Serenity (a 2006 Science Fiction movie) flowing on the P2P network.

  • Prank-a-telemarketer guide

    We always love to receive those phone calls from a telemarketer ready to sell car insurance, phone subscriptions or financial services, don’t we? I previously advised to keep them hanging, but here are two web sites providing other ideas: How to prank a telemarketer to fight back. When you absolutely want to go to provide…

  • WAMP, the server solution for Windows

    Needing to quickly install a web server on a Windows PC, I was drawn into looking for a free software suite providing such sevrices in a simple and nice package. I already knew EasyPHP from Emmanuel Faivre, Laurent Abbal and Thierry Murail, three Frenchmen who put in a single tool box all the free open-source…

  • iPhone: Property of Cisco-Linksys or Apple?

    You had been reading here that Linksys (subsidiary of Cisco) launched recently a VoIP phone named iPhone, a direct threat to the brand that Apple wants to use for its newest phone line. Now, it seems that the situation does not seem as clear-cut as it appeared initially. Immediately after Apple’s announcements, Cisco had filed…

  • Bloggers forced by US to register

    There is currently a talk in the US legislative body whose intent is to force all writers of blogs having more than 500 readers to register themselves as lobyyists or face jail time. This is the result of an amendment introduced by Senator David Vitter that is currently struggling to be transformed into law, but…


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