Month: April 2007
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5 minutes to kill yourself
On a Friday afternoon like today, in the office, you said that you would kill yourself if you were invited in yet another meeting. Unfortunately, the boss invited you to another meeting in 5 minutes. To be true to our word, you have 5 minutes to kill yourself. This is the task assigned to you…
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Make your favicon easily
Favicon‘s are those little icon files that you place at the root of your web site. They display in Internet Explorer along with your bookmarks, in Opera and Firefox on the address bar near to the address of the site you visit. When you want to produce a favicon for your web site, you probably…
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Unidentified Flying Raw (UFRaw) for Linux
The Unidentified Flying Raw (UFRaw) is a utility to read and manipulate raw images from digital cameras. It can be used on its own or as a Gimp plug-in. It reads raw images using Dave Coffin’s excellent raw conversion utility – DCRaw. UFRaw supports basic color management using Little CMS, allowing the user to apply…
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Protect your PDA for 1$
A Personal Data Assistant (PDA) like my Sony Clié (I did not update it lately, ain’t I), a Palm Tungsten E2 or a Palm Z22 includes a sensitive zone at the bottom of the screen where you can write with a stylus. But depending on your use (for example if you are an adept of…
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Open source/free alternatives
I’ve been telling often (too often?) that you should replace your Microsoft Office with the cheap (free!) and powerful OpenOffice desktop suite. But some of my readers wanted to know about other replacement solutions for PC applications running under MS-Windows. Here are my “Open source alternatives to popular PC software“: Title / Download Comments Firefox…
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Optimize your trips
This week, I observed a weird tendency (random concentration?) on the information channels I check on the Internet: I saw an increasing number of news about ways to optimize parts of your trips and travels. Trippish: Take weather into account to plan your trips. Farecast: Choose the best time to buy an airplane ticket in…
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Colourful nature of Per Lothe
Per Lothe is a photography artist that really knows how to put colour in landscapes. What is best than waiting for the right light to make his model greater. http://www.lothen.com/
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You come from everywhere
…as is shown on this map: The Roumazeilles.net visitors come from every corner of the world.
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Pentax K10D review at Imaging Resource
Imaging Resource is a web site with a low rate of publication, but its reviews are of the highest quality. Today, they publish a review of the Pentax K10D D-SLR (including anti-shake, dust reduction, 10MP, weather-proof body).