Technology opinions and digital photography
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1 Million Free and Legal Music Tracks
After all, it’s not only a matter of downloading a lot of MP3’s from the web. Sometimes, if you avoid the top-50 list of songs, you could be finding a lot of tracks that will be satisfying your thirst for music in a legal way: Many artists offer their music for free and this is…
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WSPR will tell you the power of your PC
This is a rather good surprise for the normal users of PC. Microsoft is rumoured to prepare a rating to evaluate if a PC will be able to provide a good, bad or excellent experience with Windows Vista. A PC rated 1 will be providing a minimal experience, a PC rated 5 will be near…
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Nikon goes 55nm
Nikon Precision just announced the delivery of equipment to etch silicon at the 55nm level. A major step in the direction of ever more integrated circuits.
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Photograph of the week
There are many web sites showing a photograph per week, but I usually do not find a single reason to come back the following week. In general, the quality level is rather poor, when it is not frankly low. But this time, I found a shiny gold nugget (Photo.net). The photograph of the week is…
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NikonCafe.com, a forum for the Nikon lovers
If you own a digital photo camera from the Nikon brand, you will certianly be interested in finding the forums of NiconCafe.com. All subjects are freely discussed (hardware gear is currently more about Nikon D200 and other digital single lens reflex cameras or lenses that would be attached to them than about compact digital cameras…
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Half the PCs cannot run Vista
According to The Inquirer, it is a wooping 50% of all current PCs that will not be able to display the nice new graphic interface of Windows Vista. Be ready to buy a new graphics card in just a few months for this. This could become a real problem for Vista because one of the…
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United Kingdom wants access to encrypted Vista hard drives
Her Majesty’s police force is worried by the promised arrival of Microsoft Vista and its feature to protect data on a PC hard drive by sophisticated encryption methods – to a result of leaving a foreigner unable to read any information from the PC hard drive. As a matter of fact, this feature could well…
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All the secrets of digital photo storage
Maybe not all the secrets, but a good number of ideas to keep in mind about the storage and archival of data that is pouring out of our digital cameras. Here is what is proposed by the article “Storing Your Digital Images” (by Vincent Bockaert) seen on dpreview.com. All you have to keep in mind…
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