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  • Nikon and 12 million pixels: Nikon D300

    Nikon and 12 million pixels: Nikon D300

    Here it comes! Nikon follows in Canon’s footsteps and announced its new digital single lens reflex camera, the Nikon D300 improving on the foundation of the D200 whose commercial life was quite nice. The job is a tough one: making even better sales than a successful camera and countering the attempts of Canon, Sony, Pentax,…

  • WordPress and moving from PHP4 to PHP5

    Some advice provided by Donncha for those who would like to move from PHP4 to PHP5 on a server supporting WordPress exploitation. Nothing big, but it is always good to check the items she points at: Location of PHP.INI Update to mysql and gd libraries Compatibility with WP-cache

  • Maze solution using Photoshop

    Maze solution using Photoshop

    It may not be the easiest way to produce the solution to a magazine maze test, but you can do it with Photoshop, using the magic wand. Increase contrast. Select the right wall of the maze using the magic wand. Menu Select > Modify > Expand 4 pixels. Create new layer. Fill with Red. Menu…

  • News from the P2P front line

    It has been quite some time that I did not write about the P2P news. They start popping up everywhere and it is time to talk about the wonderful things happening right under our eyes. First, the Internet users start to find again -in Europe- some protection since a decision from the European Justice Court:…

  • Canon EOS 40D, the tests

    After rumour time, here is reality for the Canon EOS 40D. There are more and more tests (starting with previews) of this nice digital camera. Imaging resource (English) DC resource (English) Steve’s Digicam (English) DPreview, review, Phil Askey, October 2007 (English) DPreview, preview (English) Chasseur d’Image (présentation) (Français) The Digital Picture (English) Outback Handbook: Canon…

  • Become colorblind!

    Become colorblind!

    As more than 5% of all males have some sort of colorblindness (see also my previous post about colorblindness and software specification), it is important to ensure that software is usable by that large group of users. Here comes Color Oracle, a freeware application that will let you test your software design against various sub-types…