Technology opinions and digital photography
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Franck Brudieux black and white reptiles
Franck Brudieux recently made an impressive photo work on reptiles. Usually, reptiles are subject for nature photography insisting on placing the animal in its natural context. Here, Franck moved to a studio and decided to favor heavily the skins and surfaces of the animals and went for Black and White images. Something completely out of…
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The Linux Equivalent project
If you jumped from Windows to GNU/linux you are certainly looking for the equivalent Linux programs for your previous Windows applications. This is exactly what the Linux Equivalent project provides: A list of Windows programs with their “equivalents” on GNU/Linux. But you have to understand that some “equivalences” are not exactly on par with Windows…
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Free online games
RED is one slightly addictive video game that you can play freely online. But AmorGames has other Flash-based games to fill the long Winter night.
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Hoya absorbs Pentax
Hoya and Pentax just announced that they reached an agreement on a merger between both companies that would result in the absorption of Pentax into the major glass manufacturer. Pentax shares will be exchanged against Hoya shares; Management will be shared between top brass coming from both companies. The good news is that, even if…
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A look at the N|vu HTML/CSS editor
N|vu is a web development application with a WYSIWYG interface that is aimed to be user friendly, easy and powerful. It is supposed to be a serious competition for major commercial tools like DreamWeaver (N|vu is a free download making it a good contender). Unfortunately, since it comes from the Open Source world, N|vu tends…
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Scientific experiments on video
One of the most complicated problems of Science is to reach full reproductibility of experiments. Even more, it is merely an issue of knowing how one experiment was done. It is in this context of research and education that the JoVE (Journal of Visualized Experiments) web site was created to present videos of some scientific…
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iPhone launched… by Linksys, not Apple
Already a great marketing success. While everybody was expecting the announcement of a new VoIP (Voice-over-IP) phone set by Apple under the name of iPhone, there is a product launched under that exact name by… Linksys. The networking company is stealing all the publicity from Apple in a coup. But it is not only a…
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Metro stations, everywhere
If you need a map for a metropolitan railway (or underground tube, or metro, or most tramways), there is only one place to go: UrbanRail.net has all kinds of public transport maps All over the world. And some news about public transportation.
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FrontPage is dead, long live FrontPage!
finally, it’s happened! Microsoft announced officially the end of FrontPage (Microsoft Office SharePoint Designer 2007 and Microsoft Expression Web Designer will come in Spring to replace it). As a matter of fact, FrontPage did not really succeed in penetrating the pro market for web designers. Its utterly simplistic approach to web design was obviously far…
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