Technology opinions and digital photography
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YouTube starts ads, TubeStop stops ads
Google announced, soon after its buying of YouTube, that it wouold add some advertisment on the amateur video web site. This is now what they did. But it did not leave the software developers insensitive: TubeStop is a FireFox plug-in that hides or closes that ads in YouTube to keep the same pleasure without the…
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500GB hard disk drives
The race for larger hard drives does nto slow down. Today, it is quite easy to find 500GB disks at a very reasonable cost (and remember that this is no less than half a tera-byte of data!) I recently observed several interesting comparisons about this issue: In English: Tom’s Hardware (external disks) In French: Hardware.fr…
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Supertelephoto at Nikon
The recent launch of the Nikon D300 and Nikon D3 was made long with the announcement of new pro telephoto lenses. Very noticeable for lovers of nature photography (with a deep pocket): the super telephoto lenses. They open at f/2.8 and f/4, they are all stabiliszed (VR) : 400mm f/2.8G ED VR AF-S NIKKOR 500mm…
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Microsoft WGA servers are down
Those servers are central to validate the “Microsoft Genuine Advantage” service. In plain words, they provide the verification that you are really a registered user authorized by Microsoft. But these servers are currently down (some kind of network failure?) and Microsoft forecast about two days before going back to a normal situation. This simply means…
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Watches, watch madness
Do you love watches? Are you a geek? You should love these surprising watches. WebTime Series Elite is displaying time by the alignment of the colored polygons and the vertical scale: Shinshoku prefers to use a colored light code: Seiko’s e-Ink is more a prototype using flexible electronic ink or electronic paper to display time.…
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Panasonic L10: first shots
Panasonic is about to bring a new Digital SLR to the market to fight with the Canon EOS 40D, the Nikon D300 and other Sony Alpha 200 or Alpha 300. We don’t know much about it, and it is still difficult to be sure that they will deliver, but an Italian magazine, Fotocomputer, provided some…
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