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  • StarPort galactic empires

    StarPort galactic empires

    StarPort galactic empires is a Windows-compatible video game still 100% free to play. You have a fleet of space vessels and a galactic empire that could be crushed by its neighbours.

  • 20 new lenses at Sony

    This is the announcement of Toru Katsumoto, Senior General Manager at Sony, in charge of the Digital Imaging Business Group. In a publi-interview, he tells us that Sony does not intend to wait with the current large offer of existing lenses compatible with the Minolta lens-mount. They will launch 20 new lenses in year starting…

  • Baidu, the Chinese self-censored encyclopaedia

    Baidu. This is the name of a company, of the largest Chinese search engine and of an open encyclopaedia just starting now in China. While Wikipedia is actively censored in China, Baidu wants to offer an answer to the need for an open encyclopaedia written by its visitors. Wikipedia let everybody directly modify the articles…

  • Linux: A European threat to American computers

    This is the utterly funny claim of an American blogger met in a random encounter on the web (Shelley the Republican). Some American people have brought paranioa from a mental illness to a creative art.

  • First Sony Alpha

    First Sony Alpha

    Norvegians from Digit.no show what appears to be the first sighting of a Digital Single Lens Reflex camera Alpha from Sony. Probably a replacement for the Dynax/Maxxum 5D. http://www.digit.no/wip4/detail.epl?id=91529

  • How to Create RSS feeds with Dreamweaver

    Maybe like me some time ago you think about taking advantage of some of the blog techiques without using the actual blog tools (I finally jumped into WordPress to ease my life as you can see). In this case, you will certainly be interested in producing RSS feeds (if you don’t know what i’m speaking…

  • New look for Roumazeilles.net

    As you certainly noticed, my web site got a new feline theme based upon a photo taken in Kenya in April.

  • DRM techniques battling for your computer

    The small world of technical solutions to protect the copyrights starts seeing the same issues as the software industry observed fifteen years ago when trying solutions for software copy protection. For example, we start seeing cases where two DRM solutions (Digital Rights Management) cannot live simultaneously on the same computer. This wasn’t enough that you…

  • Digital Artifacts – removing digital noise the easy way

    The Luminous Landscape is a great web site with a lot of information on digital photography, excellent photos and nice reviews of related hardware and software. I singled out a nice little article about what they call “the colour gremlins” (More commonly, this is known as digital sensor noise). What is interesting is that they…


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