Month: June 2006
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Most needed utilities
It’s been some time now that I use that surprisingly good list of utilities from BootDisk.com. I wanted to finally share it with you. Highly recommended.
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Word tip #1: Letter template
Because, despite my repeated advice of migrating from Word (still expensive at Microsoft) to OpenOffice (freely downloadable and as powerful as MS-Word), you may still be using Word, I am giving you here the business letter template that I offered yesterday for OpenOffice, but adapted to Microsoft Word. With still the same advantages: There is…
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OpenOffice tip #1: Letter template
Nearly all users of a word processor have been faced with this minor annoyance of writing a passable commercial-like letter. But, worse, at the time of filling the envelope, you have to fight with a sheet of paper that would not accept to align itself with the address window of the envelope. Today, I am…
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Steal these stock photos
Design and illustration activities often require the use of images. In that intent, photo agencies come to the rescue with their organized offer of catalogs, stocks, heaps of photographs sold for one or more uses. Unfortunately, not everybody have the financial wealth to purchase agency stock photos to illustrate a web site, a leaflet, or…
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The fastest Flash memory card
This is the wet dream of all serious user of digital photography cameras (or similar mobiel devices for digital music, portable movies, portable video game consoles). But it is very difficult to find a real comparison with real products. Well! This is what the excellent Dyxum.com web site offers in an extensive comparison of Compact…
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Sony Alpha A100, first pictures
Polish magazine Fotopolis (www.fotopolis.pl) just published some images taken with the new Sony Alpha DSLR A100. They give a very first impression of the image quality of the camera. Essentially, it is impossible to know the exact state of the camera and its embedded software may not be the final version. But the limited quality…
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Pegasus mail upgraded to French and German
As my long-time readers know, Pegasus mail is my prefered email software. It’s free, it’s powerful, it’s nearly insensitive to security issues (partly because it does not have all the bells and whistles of others like Outlook Express), it’s for Windows. Two important news about Pegasus mail: Pegasus mail goes to v4.31 (with new improved…
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Sony Alpha A100; The show must go on
After the first leaked informations, most of the serious web sites around are presenting today the news of the day: Sony Alpha A100 becomes the first photo camera to enter the field of digital single lens reflex (D-SLR or DLSR) for Sony after the demise of Konica-Minolta a few months ago. To know it all…
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No PDF for MS-Office
Adobe is trying hard to avoid having Microsoft include a PDF generator in its upcoming Microsoft Office newest desktop suite. They decided that this would be too much a menace against their business model and so told Microsoft that they would fight up to a judge if they tried to put PDF in MS-Office. In…