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  • Intel Core 2 Duo, what performance?

    The new multicore processors from Intel just arrived. They are supposed to offer exceptional performance (with two computing cores in a single package) for an outstanding price. Model Frequency Bus L2 cache Price Core 2 Extreme X6800 2.93GHz 1066MHz 4MB $999 Core 2 Duo E6700 2.66GHz 1066MHz 4MB $530 Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4GHz 1066MHz…

  • Nature photo, from Norway

    Nærfoto (Bjørn Rørslett) is the web site of a nature photographer. You will not find landscapes from Nordic Norway, but colorful images that strike the eye. A cool whiff of air in the middle of Summer.

  • Win98 is really dead!

    After long years of operation, Windows 98 is officially dead today (11 July 2006). As a matter of fact, this is not news and Microsoft was slowly reducing the efforts and even in June they refused to patch a security issue arguing that it would be too much effort (and that they couldn’t care less).…

  • Being rich can be difficult

    Being rich can mean that you can’t find your soul mate. Being rich can mean that everybody is running after your money and nobody’s looking at your inner heart. Finding a mate thus becomes awfully difficult. Here comes the solution: MillionaireMatch.com. You’re rich, very rich, filthy rich. You can’t find a good match. You need…

  • Crouching tiger and hidden piglet

    Absolute photo fun and weird nature failure in a Thai zoo, here comes Sai Mai, female tiger of two years initially fed by a pig and brought with piglets.

  • Where to buy your Sony Alpha A100?

    You don’t need to look anymore. The digital photo reflex camera that brings Sony to the D-SLR market with the new Alpha brand will be available at the end of July (some say that Malaysia would be the first to receive shipments but this rumour lacks any substantiation). If you want to buy it, you…

  • Crysis: FarCRY, the FPS was only the beginning

    FarCry, one of the best First Person Shooter video game (a game in the old shoot-them-all category of Doom or Quake), spent a lot of time on my PC. I played with it at day and at night. But Crytek, the game authoring company, is preparing Crysis as a follow-up, sequel, or renewed FPS video…

  • Sigma new Macro tele zoom

    I have always been interested by the tele zoom lenses and a 70-200mm or 80-200mm seems to me to be the ideal companion. When it opens at f/2.8, it’s really a good solution. If it’s a macro zoom, it becomes even better. Up to now, I was rather looking toward the excellent Konica-Minolta 70-200mm f/2.8…

  • Free Science Fiction in MP3

    Science fiction author James Patrick Kelly podcasts some of his works as MP3s. His stories were published in famous SciFi magazines like Asimov’s Science Fiction and The Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy.

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