Month: April 2007
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A few days out
A leopard I shot last year in Kenya In the coming 15 days, I will be travelling in South Africa. The updates to the web site will not stop (it’s marvellous what a little bit of software automation can do!) but don’t count on my active participation (I will not be on line from the…
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Extreme macro photography
When you start fighting for the highest possible resolution in digital cameras, you usually count in mega-pixels. METIS Systems goes further: 4 giga-pixels in a single camera. The Digital Macro Camera 1015/C [PDF] is able to photograph 12 square meters at non-interpolated 254 ppi. (100 pixel per square millimeter). This is a tool to make…
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µTorrent in beta for Vista
Popular torrent client µTorrent released a new public beta earlier today. The beta is an early build of µTorrent version 1.7 and the most significant new feature is full support for Windows Vista. Source: Wired.com.
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Transform a webcam into an Infrared camera
After all, most CCD cameras are naturally very sensitive to infrared and you only have to remove the filter that protects them against this part of the light spectrum. Transform Your Webcam Into An Infrared Cam! – video powered by Metacafe
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STALKER blows your mind and other thoughts
STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl is clearly a game long awaited (since 2003). It brings significant game items (part role playing game with a lot of liberty for action, part a First Person Shooter with a lot of guns for action). It has been several hours now that I’v been playing I thought that it would…
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Bioshock videos
Bioshock, the FPS game from Irrational Games is still under preparation. But not willing to let the upcoming Crysis steal all the light they decided to produce a set of videos to give us an idea of the environment that will be used in the game (Rapture is an underwater city/location). Previous Bioshock information.
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FireFox with a Google toolbar
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Google Earth: breaking the image size record
When you look into the largest images accessible from the Internet, you MUST check Google maps and Google Earth (the application that allows you to navigate on the surface of the Earth globe from your desktop with the satellite images collected by Digital Globe and Google). From its inception, Google Earth provided images of the…
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April 4th, 1968: Death of Martin Luther King Jr.
Today, we celebrate the anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., great freedom fighter in favor of Human Rights and against institutionalized racism in the USA. It was nearly 30 years ago that he fell under the bullets of a killer in Memphis, Tennessee. Let’s not forget that only a few years ago,…