Technology opinions and digital photography

  • OpenOffice, a few ideas

    Just in passing, here are a few ideas to help the users of OpenOffice.org, the best replacement for Microsoft Office: “Impress: Using Master Slides” explains how to use master slides in order to make a presentation look better and more homogeneous. “Mail merge in OpenOffice.org” : Doing mail merge from a desktop software suite like…

  • 10 things Linux does better than Windows

    I found this nice article of the same title (“10 things Linux does better than Windows“) on TechRepublic.com. I found it interesting because I could not really find all 10 of them. Will you be able to list all of them? TCO (Total Cost of Ownership): Linux is less expensive in an enterprise because of…

  • Internet Explorer – Accept the update

    Microsoft published today a large Security Update for Internet Explorer. This happens nearly every month, but this time, this is really important. Whatever your version of Internet Explorer, you should upgrade now, via Windows Update. Microsoft is correcting a major bug in all versions of Internet Explorer and it is urgently important that you plug…

  • Kenya safari, visa fees in dollars only

    You wanted to go to Kenya for a safari or a photo safari (this will quickly become very fashionable, thanks to the latest Disney movie, “The crimson wings” whose location is Kenyan Tanzanian lake Natron)? You wanted to get your visa in the Nairobi airport after landing (this is much easier than queuing at the…

  • Universal Declaration of Human Rights

    Article 1  All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. …   The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948 at Palais de…

  • Stacey Whaley, fractals

    Stacey Whaley, fractals

    Stacey Whaley is a painter using the most modern tools available and depending heavily on the mathematical principles of fractals (those graphical figures that tend to repeat themselves at different scales when you zoom in or zoom out). In most cases, when people follow this path, the result is quite predictable and there are a…

  • WordPress 2.7, tomorrow

    It is said that the new version of WordPress, the open-source website operating software will arrive tomorrow. It is currently in version beta/RC. It will bring a new greatly improved administration panel. Download from WordPress.org.

  • Find your PC weaknesses

    Find your PC weaknesses

    Isn’t it somewhat difficult to continuously check the status of security updates for the many software programs we have installed on our PCs, sometimes not even knowing it? Here comes Secunia PSI to help in this daunting task. It permanently observes the version of the programs on your PC and verifies if there is an…

  • Big camera?

    Big camera?

    Certainly! Here comes a photo camera with 1400 mega-pixels. This is the camera installed in Hawai in the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (PanSTARRS) telescope. I say that when Kirkland AFB builds a photo camera, Canon, Nikon, Sony and the others should bow and admire. Source: Really Rocket Science.


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