Technology opinions and digital photography
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Nikon, Sony, photo news flood
Nikon launches a Nikon D3000 (entry-level SLR), a Nikon D300s (enthusiast SLR). Sony reveals accidentally the future Sony Alpha 850 as a relatively inexpensive complément to the Sony Alpha 900 (Full Frame SLR). Find all about it on YLovePhoto.
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Nero 9, for free. No thanks!
A rather interesting article of DownloadSquad tells us about the trial version that Nero offers for its Nero 9. I had already mentioned that there are solutions to pay nothing in order to get Nero 8 in free download (see lower), but it goes quite far. You must give them your email address to download…
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Intel SSD has big problems?
This is what is strongly suggested by an article published in The Register indicating that the Santa Clara giant would have suspended the shipments of its 2nd generation of X25-M SSD drives, because of a data corruption issue. We are waiting for a firmware update to correct this problem from what appears to be a…
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iPhone 3.0.1 corrects SMS vulnerability
In the recent Black Hat conference, it has been revealed that the iPhone/iPod OS 3.0 had a severe vulnerability to hackers. A series of SMS messages could be used to get full access to your phone. Apple issued a revision of the OS that you can download from iTunes: rev 3.0.1.
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Best business card ever
Plenty of people will try to teach you how to create a good business card. Catchy, well-designed, well-balanced and unforgettable. Apart from the plain design (OK by that time), here the best possible business card. You will never forget about this guy. Unfortunately, we will not know who W.W.Green is. The exact text: USED CARS…
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UltraSurf: Internet privacy for the masses
Just a short notice. I discovered a very simple and relatively powerful Internet privacy solution, Ultrasurf, for those of us who may be interested in browsing the Internet in near complete anonymity: hide IP addresses and locations, clean browsing history, cookies & more … It may be the future of Internet privacy.
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Bought a new lens converter
I’m just out of eBay where I bought a second-hand Minolta 1.4x lens converter to extend a little my tele-lenses when I put them on my Sony Alpha 700 and the old faithful Konica-Minolta Dynax Maxxum 7D. I think it is going to support me when I go to Nepal (Bardia National Park) in next…
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What is the best SSD drive today?
SSD drives are those disk drives that are not using rotating platters with data stored magnetically, but that are based upon a set Flash memory components (so, without any mobile part, and with a performance that has nothing to do with even the fastest magnetic hard disk drives). SSD drives are expensive but, with costs…
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Ukiyo-e books by Kitagawa Utamaro
A friend of mine recently bought a copy of a Japanese wood engraving. While reading this article from BibliOdyssey, about the wood engravings of Kitagawa Utamaro, I thought I should share some of the pictures of this artist.
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