Technology opinions and digital photography
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Trusted Computing Platform – Not for the consumer
Trusted Computing Platform is an initiative that is going to help the media companies (music, movies, etc.) securing the media they sell in a strong way. Essentially, it’s intent is to keep everything encrypted to avoid users to have a direct access to it. This approach promises to stomp out pirates. The problem is that,…
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Nikonians
Nikonians is the name of an English-speaking web site about digital photo cameras holding the yellow brand mark. New, forums, galleries, everything.
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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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